HABITS AND HAIR OF CARNIVORES 



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Some of the Dog's Habits. 



His attitudes which bear on this question are all of the passive 

 order. His locomotion is so fitful and different from that of the 

 horse that we shall find on his coat no animal pedometers. 



Fig. 38. — Gluteal region of dog, 

 showing whorls over the tuberosities of the ischia. 



His passive attitudes consist of standing, sitting and lying. 

 He stands little, sits more, and lies for a great part of each day. 

 The standing habit has, of course, no influence upon his hair. 

 In sitting he rests the chief weight of his body on the rounded, 

 bursa-covered surfaces of his tuberosities of the ischium, in which 

 there is nothing peculiar to himself. His fore legs are planted 

 nearly upright on the ground and his hind legs doubled under him 



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