#canine classification

[er-cryptid]

Ussuri Raccoon Dog Classification

-- Kingdom = Animalia

-- Phylum = Chordata

-- Class = Mammalia

-- Order = Carnivora

-- Family = Canidae

-- Genus = Nyctereutes

-- Species = N. procyonoides

-- Subspecies = N. p. ussuriensis

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[a-concerning-amount-of-monkeys]

Simian? Primate? Opposable thumbs? Monkey? Monkey works.

[largemouthbassnation]

Gundog Training at Dig It Dogs with Cheshire Canine Services

Mike Crawford of Cheshire Canine Services and Dig It Dog Training Club. Gundog training workshops. source

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

My mom bought me this book for Christmas

The Resurrectionist by EB Hudspeth, a fantasy field guide full of anatomical illustrations of monsters and cryptids.

The musculoskeletal systems are fun to look at, but not nearly as in-depth as I would have liked. If you have more than a passing knowledge of taxonomy (or in my case, access to Wikipedia), a lot of the details fall apart under scrutiny

The harpy has four upper limbs connected to one shoulder girdle; it shouldn't have arms, only wings

The sphinx is not classified as a mammal, but is still somehow in the family Felidae with cats (and like the harpy is also drawn with only two girdles despite having six limbs. I will give the author credit for giving the sphinx a keel for the wing muscles to attach to)

It lists the Hindu deity Genesha as a cryptid, which is a no-no.

Cerberus is also explicitly not a mammal, but somehow still a canine (literally in the species Canis with wolves, dogs, and coyotes)

Both mermaids and dragons are listed as members of the order Caudata; the only extant members of Caudata are salamanders, which kinda makes sense for dragons, but not so much for mermaids (also, the author keeps playing it fast and loose with cladistics; both mermaids and dragons are in the same order despite being in different classes, and while dragons are explicitly said to be amphibians, mermaids are given the fictional class mammicthyes, which means mammal-fish. At that point, why not just call mermaids amphibians? Why make up a fake latin hybrid name?)

But what bugs me most of all is the classification of the Minotaur as its own order of mammal when in mythology it is explicitly described as a hybrid of two known species (made possible only by the cruel machinations of the divine, but still)

To use actual taxonomical nomenclature, the minotaur's species would be B. taurus × H. sapiens (specifically B. taurus♂ × H. sapiens♀; there are, to my knowledge, no legends of H. sapiens♂ × B. taurus♀). That's how ligers, tigons, mules, zorses, pizzly bears, narlugas, etc., are described.

If I had written this book, I would have leaned more into evolutionary biology. Most land animals have four limbs because they all evolved from boney lobe-finned fish, which split off from the boneless sharks and rays millions of years earlier, so any six-limbed vertebrates would need to be descended from a fictitious category of six-finned fish which would either be an offshoot of boney fish/tetrapods (I guess they'd be hexapods, though that term refers to insect arthropods), OR a precursor to boney and cartilaginous fish that both clades split away from much earlier (it's easier to lose structures than to gain them, so it makes more sense for a six-limbed ancestor to spawn four-limbed descendants than the other way around).

Think about how different elephants are from humans, and humans are from aligators, and aligators are from penguins, and remember that they all evolved from the same ancestor tiktaalik, an amphibious fish that existed some 375 million years ago. Imagine a precursor six-limbed species and how diverse all its descendants would look after 400 million years. Save for the occasional instance of convergent evolution causing two unrelated species to independently evolve similar body plans to fill the same niche, tetrapods and hexapods would look nothing alike. There would be very little recognizable overlap between the two. A six-limbed "pegasus" would not look like a real world horse, and a six-limbed "dragon" would not look reptilian/dinosaur-ish, for much the same reason that giraffes don't look like frogs; they're just too distantly related. Bonless sharks and boney fish and whales/dolphins all have similar looking bodyplans only because their environment requires the same hydrodynamic shape, while terrstrial vertebrates are much more physically diverse.

[mischievouslittlecreature]

The Fox

Fandom: Peaky Blinders

Main Masterlist • Series Masterlist

I've always liked to think of Lucy as like a fox living amongst the pack of wolves that is the Shelbys. She's little, with her fiery red hair and sharp intelligence. And she fits in the same classification of canine as the wolves, making her similar to them, and yet also undeniably different and not entirely belonging when you look at her in relation to the rest of the pack.

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[a-girl-called-bob]

Could you imagine getting nudged the other way, though? Imagine someone from the world of Gen 9 suddenly finding themselves in a world where there are no more than 386 pokemon. Imagine if someone from Poke-France suddenly found themselves in Kanto because France doesn't exist yet in this world. Getting stopped on the street because you have a never-before-recorded Pokemon (and it looks like an ice cream cone).

pokemon theory i just thought of: new pokemon appear in the pokemon universe when they're designed in this one. they're created ex nilho but they have retroactive realness; they weren't here yesterday, but today they've always existed.

pokemon researchers have had to suss this out on their own over decades, and it's a really unpopular theory, made worse by the fact that no one can come up with a better one. from their perspective pokemon generate spontaneously but in both chronological directions, and the similarities of many pokemon seem to be detived from a conscious and creative understanding of the world--their world, though? what other world could there be?. there are ice cream pokemon and pokeball pokemon and sword pokemon and trash bag pokemon.

there are so many pokemon with both wings and a beak. is this like swords? is there an ur-flying type that this class evokes? there are so many canine pokemon. but what is a canine? is there such a thing? there's only one set of sword pokemon, right. one tea-set line. is *feline* a coherent category? would the ur-feline have two legs or four? why do so many pokemon have humanlike bodyplans-- but then again, why so few?

pichu has always been the prior form of pikachu. why didn't it get counted in order? why do we call it that instead of saying pikachu is the middle evolution of the pichu line? why can so many trainers remember finding this out well into their journeys? why didn't ash start with one?

this is why pokemon researchers do a lot of labwork, drink heavily, and use ten year olds for field research. you can't have an existential crisis if you don't even know what time is yet.

[wickedcriminal]

What kind of dragons are Furious are Wodensfang and Little Tooth in the Half-Brothers AU? Are they still Seadragonus Giganticus Maximuses (Maximi?) or are they changed to DreamWorks species like Merciless and Horrorcow?

Or are the Red and Green Deaths just how SGMs look in this AU?

They're all Seadragonus Giganticus Maximuses! What I did for the AU is that I made SGM an umbrella classification for multiple different species of giant seadragon. Kind of like how wolves, dogs, and foxes are all canines.

For HBAU specifically, what I did is made all the Death dragons one species. Thus, the Red, Green and Purple Death would all look very similar. I really like how distinctive the movie design for the Red Death was, so that's what I went with!

Their DreamWorks design seems to have been built as Boulder Class, so I made some changes to suit the seadragon label. Since the Red Death lived in a volcano, I made it so that this dragon is typically at home in lava and other extreme temperatures, mainly underwater, hence the seadragon classification. (The Green Death would have resided in an underwater volcano until it woke up and decided to Have Berk For Supper!) The crown and tail emulate coral and can change color to decieve fish and smaller dragons. They're built like elephants and hippos with devastating jaw strength and can swim very well despite their size.

As for Furious, the Wodensfang, and Toothless, they're all one undefined species of SGM that are born very small, grow incredibly massive, and then get very small again in their old age. In the context of HBAU, this specific species of seadragon is so incredibly rare that they dont even have a name, and are just referred to as their umbrella class, Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus. (Since these dragons have a habit of being connected to Hiccups throughout the ages, perhaps that could inspire their official name?)

For some other members of the SGM family, I added Doomfangs and Leviathorgens! Considering how huge they are and them being seadragons, it just felt right to me!

[dragon-queen21]

Okay I come ramble about Zenitsu again because… yes!

So this is about classification AU! So imagine the class and puberty happen at the same time! It doesn’t make too much sense, but does at the same time?

Like Genya finding out he’s a little when he’s nine, but Zenitsu learning he’s a little at seventeen!

And like imagine something kinda like mate marks but it’s care marks instead! Caregivers littles and flips all get canines that grow in during puberty! Littles have the smallest, flips are medium, and caregivers have longest ones so it teaches them to be gentle with their littles! And still biting on the neck so other caregivers know there isn’t just a lone little walking around!

There could also be some littles that take something during puberty to make their canines longer so people don’t know! Like maybe Tengen takes pills at seven to make sure his teeth are long and sharp, just so his father doesn’t hate him!

Also Zenitsu and Genya could be littles that hide their class from everyone once they find out! Like they have to seem big and tough!

I dunno I had ideas and I needed to ramble

I really want to do a classification au. I always end up thinking about one and setting up notes and ideas… and then I give up halfway through 😭

~Oooh this is a really cool idea with the whole fang concept. It’s very unique at least agere wise I feel.

~Could also imagine a character filing down their teeth to try and come off as a flip or a little (for what purpose I’m not sure. Maybe traumatized from taking care of a little and feeling unworthy to ever again. Hmm)

~Or you know how for like cosplay and stuff people will use a type of putty to make fangs. Doing that to fake classification.

~How would braces work in this world… (don’t ask where this very random thought came from dnjdndknsj)

~Also soulmate au but with cg’s and littles. Kind of like family dynamics meaning there are marks for agere siblings and parental figures vs like older and younger sibling dynamics. Does that make sense? Anyways!

[spinnysocks]

saw a poll of which animal you'd choose to be reincarnated as and i wanted to create a broader range of options that included more families & organisms! so:

the ( ) brackets are for anyone who's not sure which species comes under each classification.

please feel free to specify in the tags, and please reblog for a larger sample size! <3

[blueberryarchive]

File Name: The Hecate Project

Classification: Top Secret

Subject: 377

Background: Experiment #377, nicknamed Jungkook (Name provided on the birth certificate found in his chambers) is a classified research project initiated by the Cromwell Agency on September 1, 2023. The project is aimed at discovering the behaviors of this creature, the first hunted in almost two centuries, caught by the Cromwell Hunter Foundation.

The last subject, experiment #376, died due to the negligence of the hunters and scientists themselves.

The main objective of #377 is to find a way to make his DNA useful for operations under extreme and rigorous conditions. Including infiltration, night operations, and search for objects.

Among other objectives is the consideration of training the species for recruitment into the Cromwell Hunter Foundation.

Subject Profile

Code Name: Jungkook

Species: Homo Desmodus

Age: Appears in his 20s.

Physical characteristics: 5'10, aprox. 70kg, intensified senses, increased strength, agility, non-human flexibility, iris and cornea turn scarlet red after 6 o'clock.

Diet: Requires a minimum of 3.0 liters of human or animal blood to maintain physical abilities.

Intellectual Skills: Has the ability to communicate and understand two languages (Korean and English), knows how to read, write, and do basic mathematics.

Psychic abilities, such as controlling the mind. (On September 12, at 03:25 a.m., one of the scientists was found dead in the laboratory where 377 was located. The cameras show how a level 9 scientist, Göta Princeton, voluntarily takes the sedative given to Jungkook. The body was found by hunters Bronimir Ehmet and Máximo Felipe at 05:04 with 75% of its blood missing.

Additional Abilities: Can heal a wound of about 6.35mm in 1 second. Wounds that reach muscle or bone in 30 seconds. It can completely regenerate a limb in 36 hours.

Behaviors and conduct of the subject: The psychology department of the Cromwell Hunters has classified 377 as being quick to respond, conceited, and ribald (more notable towards the female sex). Good vocabulary and always looking for information. Aside from the incident with Dr. Göta Princeton, he has maintained good behavior when examined. Although, for precautionary reasons, he has been administered relaxants of about 20g every hour intramuscularly.

Security measures

Starting at dawn, the work area is kept under minimal light to reduce exposure and damage to the subject.

At least 6.5 liters of O-blood are required to be available in the area. For 377's diet and/or blood loss from one of the scientists.

To enter the subject's dome, an amount of about 25g of Lovatrim must first be administered and wait at least 45 minutes.

Note: Access to this file is restricted to personnel with Level 8 or higher security clearance. Unauthorized access will result in severe consequences.

Experiment #005 on Subject #377

Classification A

Background:

September 15, 2023. The Cromwell Hunter Foundation has chosen four candidates to do the seminal test. Two of the four candidates have died in the last 24 hours of entering the dome. One of the hunters refuses to enter, the last option has been trained for the project and has signed the assigned paperwork that gives Cromwell and Company complete autonomy in her decision to go inside the dome.

What appears on the following pages are the chronicles of the night of the 15th, from 8 p.m. to 3 a.m. The huntress meets 377 for the first time in the dome.

Jungkook's physical and mental behavior is different for the first time in the whole project. The eyes appear to be of a vibrant red.

For the first time we get a glance of the acicular canines.

[er-cryptid]

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[ivanttakethis]

Subject-020547 (TOV) Digital Record Entries

• AG Incident Report 9-223 Summary

• Advance Classification Level Request for Subject-020547

• Excerpt of Subject-020547 Interview [Disappearance of Subject-030718]

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AG Incident Report 9-223 Summary

The following is a summary of AG Incident Report 9-223. For access to the full report, please contact your administrator.

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LOG TIME 16:32:05

Earlier today, Subject-020547 attacked an ANAKT Garden staff member at the end of morning break time.

According to [NAME WITHELD] (AG Staff Member), they were gathering all of the children for music class, but Subject-020547 did not come when called.

AG Staff Member went looking for Subject-020547 and found her under a tree reading a book.

AG Staff Member then approached Subject-020547 from behind and picked her up, causing Subject-020547 to shriek and struggle.

When AG Staff Member did not let go, Subject-020547 bit down on AG Staff Member’s right arm, puncturing the skin and drawing blood.

Subject-020547’s guardian was summoned immediately and AG Staff Member was treated for their wound in the ANAKT Garden Clinic.

Later, Subject-020547 was questioned as to why she bit AG Staff Member after being picked up.

Subject-020547 responded: “They didn’t ask.”

No further elaboration was provided.

Guardian Cassio apologized on behalf of Subject-020547 and has offered to pay for any medical expenses incurred by AG Staff Member.

This report and all related materials (photos, receipts, statements, video footage, etc.) will be compiled and stored in Subject-020547’s digital record.

This is Subject-020547’s first infraction.

Overall Threat Level: Low

[Notice: Please Review Advance Classification Level Request for Subject-020547]

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Advance Classification Level Request for Subject-020547

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LOG TIME: 08:10:07

Following AG Incident 9-223, the severity of the injury suffered by the AG Staff Member prompted a medical inquiry into Subject-020547 (see: Addendum-004).

During the medical examination, Subject-020547’s teeth were found to be more developed than other pets her age; especially the canine teeth that caused the injury to the AG Staff Member.

Subject-020547’s teeth were then dated based on human growth development data.

The results of these tests have concluded that Subject-020547 is biologically two (2) years older than originally thought, making her 6 years old instead of 4 years old.

Guardian Cassio has been properly notified of the results.

Based on these new findings, it is requested that Subject-020547 be advanced in ANAKT Garden classification level and placed with her age peers.

[Status: Approved]

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Excerpt of Subject-020547 Interview [Disappearance of Subject-030718]

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LOG TIME: 10:56:20

[Beginning of Excerpt]

Interviewer: “What can you tell me about Solei (Subject-030718)?”

Tov: “Solei? They’re nice.”

Interviewer: “…”

Tov: (blinks) “…”

Interviewer: “Anything else?”

Tov: “They’re always laying around in the sun. Some people say they’re lazy, but I disagree. Solei always seems to have stuff on their mind, even when they’re relaxing.”

Interviewer: “Okay, keep going.”

Tov: (thinking for a moment) “When we were younger, we would take naps together during break time. And we both have to be careful about our heart rates.”

Interviewer: “Ah yes, you both have medical bands. Did that make you closer?”

Tov: (shrugs) “I don’t know. You would have to ask them.”

Interviewer: “Do you think Solei would feel comfortable telling you if something was wrong? Or if they were in danger?”

Tov: “Maybe?”

Interviewer: “When was the last time you saw Solei?”

Tov: (thinking again) “…yesterday.”

Interviewer: “Did anything seem different, or off about them? Were they maybe paranoid about something? Or stressed out?”

Tov: “No more paranoid or stressed than usual.”

Interviewer: “And last night, did you see or hear anything strange?”

Tov: (long pause)

Tov: (shakes head) “No.”

[End of Excerpt]

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Post-Interview Notes

• Subject-020547 remained at ease throughout the entire interview. Though it is impossible to know her true physiological response due to her lack of collar.

• Her answers were short and to the point. Had to be prompted for elaboration. This behavior is not out of character for Subject-020547.

• Cannot get a solid read on thoughts or conscious.

• May be reasonably close to Subject-030718? Her answer was very vague.

• Last saw Subject-030718 sometime yesterday, did not specify when.

• Paused before answering certain questions. Could be normal behavior. Inconclusive.

• Her wording seemed to suggest Subject-030718 was paranoid/stressed more than once.

• Claims to not have seen or heard anything strange the night Subject-030718 disappeared, despite their known erratic sleep schedule.

Conclusion: Continue observation of Subject-020547 as the investigation progresses.

She knows something.

Overall Threat Level: Medium

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Hope it’s alright that I included Solei in here @shakingparadigm!

Their missing poster has been knocking around in my head for days and I really wanted to write a little about the investigation into their disappearance (and who might know more than they’re letting on 👀).

[pkmnprofloblolly]

Hello, saw your post about fox pokemon. What exactly are eevee? Always grouped 'em in with fox pokemon. Are they atleast canine like?

that's more of a loaded question than you might think! for a very long time, where eevee rests on the mammalian family tree is the sort of thing you could ask 10 biologists and get 13 answers, and maybe a shouting match. eevee has wildly variable internal features that make placing it in a certain spot really difficult- i'm talking like minute differences in the shapes of bones that would usually be used to identify certain groups. you might think that with the discovery of dna we'd be able to definitively place it where it belongs, but eevee's genetic makeup is remarkably plastic (changeable) and unstable. there's even quite a bit of research looking into cancer prevention based on its genome because of that (the species isn't immune to cancer, but has a much lower incidence of it than you'd expect given its penchant for frequent mutation).

so, let's talk about some mammals! particularly, a large group called the carnivora.

(note that "carnivora" or "carnivoran" sound similar to but do not mean the same thing as "carnivore". carnivores are any animal that eats meat, while carnivorans (members of the carnivora) belong to a specific branch of the mammal family tree. most carnivorans are indeed carnivores, but not all.)

so, carnivora! almost every person that's proposed a place on the mammalian family tree for eevee has placed it in or near the carnivorans. it's a group that is made up of two smaller clades: the feliforma (the cat-like carnivorans) and the caniforma (the dog-like carnivorans). the feliforma includes groups like the cats, hyenas, and mongooses. the caniforma includes groups like the dogs, bears, weasels, and seals.

some examples of the feliforms on the left, and caniforms on the right. of the feliforms we have pyroar and meowstic (cats), mightyena (a hyena), and yungoos (a mongoose). of the caniforms we have houndour (a dog), buizel (an otter), sealeo (despite the name, it is a walrus), ursaring (a bear), and zorua (a fox). you hear that right, mightyena is closer to a cat than a dog, and yungoos is entirely unrelated from mustelids (ie weasels, otters, badgers) like buizel or furret.

for an example of what i mean with the thing about eevee's weird morphology defying classification- there's this bit of bone on either side of the bottom of the mammalian skull called the "tympanic bulla" (basically just "Ear Balloon", since it's a hollow chamber). caniforms have only one chamber in their ear balloons, and feliforms have two chambers. eevee has.. both, somehow. if you took 2 eevee skulls and looked at their tympanic bullae, you might find that one has one chamber and one has two. that's.. really weird, just so everybody knows. that sort of thing isn't something you see in basically anything but eevee, same goes for its wildly variable genome.

so, is eevee a caniform, a feliform, or something else? our best answer came in the form of three extremely well-preserved fossils from the johto region, dating back to about 44 MYA, just a few million years before the feliform and caniform branches actually separated.

three pokemon were found, exceptionally preserved- including soft tissues!-, all together. they'd been buried in a mudslide and fossilized right next to/on top of each other, the mineral content of the soil just right to discourage bacterial growth, allowing the soft tissues to stay intact and fossilize as-is.

the fossils were collected and CT scanned to see the bones within the mineralized soft tissues- each of the three individuals appeared to be the same species, with near-identical skeletons. none of the skeletons showed type characteristics (like lignin or metallic structure), making type hard to discern. but what we could tell from the bones is that these were animals just outside of the carnivora- closely related to the ancestors of all carnivorans. and excitingly, they bared a close resemblance to a few skeletal features found only in eevee.

despite the homogeneity of their bones, the fossilized pokemon's soft tissues differed- the fur, in color and pattern (the fossilized fur no longer retains its color, but by looking at microscopic pigment cells within preserved fur and feathers we can deduce color and pattern!) and certain organs- around the throat area, each individual had an elemental organ like many pokemon today use to fuel and store energy for their typed attacks. each of the three fossilized pokemon's throat organ was different in elemental specialization: one fire, one water, and one electric.

(reconstructions of the three pokemon in question. top electric, left fire, and right water.)

see where i'm going, here? it's unknown if the three individuals represent three different evolutions, or three differently typed forms (like oricorio) of a singular pokemon, and a pre-evolved form is not yet known, if it existed at all. but we can say with some confidence that these guys may well have been ancestors of eevee as we know it today, which places eevee within the non-carnivoran carnivoraforms- something that emerged before the feliforma and caniforma existed, with traits found in both and found in neither.

[themonsterblogofmonsters]

Hello, I was wondering if you have a classification post on magical canines? We have looked everywhere but to no avail. Me and my friend are making a HP world that does not follow or support TERF Rowling's views, actions and her TERF followers. To make it something that can be enjoyed again... Well first time through for me. >> Was banned from it due to Christian mom when I was younger. My friend Tifa basically said this would not do and now I am in the Potterverse... with tweaks lol.

I do have a Black Dogs (Classification) page, but that only holds different varieties of Black Dogs/Spiritual/Ghostly dogs, not domestic canines or magical wolves. I have a Domestic Magical Felines (Classification) page for magical cats, and a Magical Equines (Classification) page (there are separate ones for Pegasids, Unicorns, Water Horses and Omen Horses, which are linked in the intro of the post), but it looks like I never got around to a magical Canines, Wolves, or Domestic Canines Classification post. Oops. And given this blog is on hiatus (Yeah the TERFery is bullshit isn't it? My motivation dropped off a cliff the worse it got) there's not likely to be one soon.

However.

Magical Pets A-K is pretty self-explanatory, as is Magical Pets L-Z. There's also two Yokai canines I have down that likely aren't on any of the aforementioned lists, namely, the Raiju and the Makami, and there's also the Werewolf (Classification) list with different kinds of werewolves.

And oh! Ages back someone sent in an ask about magical domestic canines and I went through feasibility/likelihood of each being a pet at Hogwarts. It can be found Here.

Hopefully that's a good start for you? And let me know how your de-TERFifying goes!