Definition of canid
: any of a family (Canidae) of carnivorous animals that includes the wolves, jackals, foxes, coyote, and the domestic dog
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The other wolflike canid, the researchers concluded, is the coyote.
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Two decades later, with the population rebounding, the canid was reintroduced in Yellowstone Park and central Idaho.
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Once common throughout the southeastern United States, American red wolves are the most endangered canid in the world, according to the zoo.
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One researcher found that San Diego canyons with coyotes have healthier ecosystems that canyons without these canids.
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For more than a decade, Gehrt has studied urban coyote behavior in Chicago, looking at how the canids interact with raccoons, with free-roaming cats, and with one another.
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Fish and Wildlife officials did very little to make state leaders and residents more comfortable with a canid that carries mythological big bad wolf baggage, Mossotti said.
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But the canids remain on the federal endangered species list in areas west of U.S. 395, U.S. 95 and Oregon 78.
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Divers also found the skull of a stocky, coyote-like canid previously only known from South America.
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Origin and Etymology of canid
New Latin Canidae, from Canis, type genus, from Latin canis
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First Known Use: circa 1889
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