Stats

Lifespan

10-13 yrs

Size

Medium

Diet

Omnivore

Activity

Diurnal

Social

Pack

Biome

Human settlements

Range

Worldwide

Movement

Running

Breeding

Live Birth

Defense

Speed

Status

Common

About

This tan and white canine roams open grassy fields and suburban outskirts. Its nose contains over 300 million olfactory receptors, allowing it to detect individual scents.

Life cycle

1. 1.
   newborn pup

   A blind newborn pup nurses and sleeps, completely dependent on its mother.
2. 2.
   juvenile

   A weaned pup wrestles with littermates, learns its place in the pack, and starts eating meat.
3. 3.
   adolescent

   An adolescent canid reaches near-adult size with long legs and a thinner coat, learning to hunt cooperatively.
4. 4.
   adult

   Fully grown and hunting alongside the pack.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Carnivora

Family

Canidae

Genus

Canis

Species

Canis familiaris