It's the largest land mammal that's native to the islands, but it's about the size of a Chihuahua, making the island fox one of the smallest members of the dog family candidate.

它是岛上最大的陆地哺，但其大小和吉娃娃差不多，这使得它成为犬科家族中最小的成员之一。

Often referred to as canines, dogs, including golden retrievers, are part of the Canidae family.

通常被称为犬科，狗，包括金毛猎犬，是犬科的一部分。

Both groups of canines had been hand raised from birth by people in much the same way.

这两组犬科从一出生就被人类用同样的方式进行人工饲养。

Don't give me the coyote look. I'm not a canine.

别像盯野狼一样盯我看 我又不是犬科。

Canines have spent more than 10,000 years by our sides.

犬科在我们身边已经生活了一多年了。

But the resurgence of Yellowstone Park's canine population has helped the bears.

但黄石公园犬科的复兴帮助了熊群。

Now a wolf is an animal — it's a member of the dog family.

现在，狼是一种——它属于犬科。

Bovids, equids and, in particular, canids, were put to work by H.sapiens; felids always took a slightly different view of the matter, but were indulged for their rodent-catching talents.

牛科、马科，尤其是犬科，都是由智人分工的；猫科略有不同，但受宠的原因主要是捕捉啮齿类生的天性。

Not only can canines understand our emotions and body language, but when dogs and humans interact, both our bodies release oxytocin; a hormone commonly associated with feelings of love and protectiveness.

犬科不仅能理解我们的情绪和肢体语言，而且当狗和人类相互交流时，彼此的身体都催产素，这是一种通常与爱和保护性感觉有关的荷尔蒙。

If anything, dogs resemble juvenile rather than fully adult canids, a sort of arrested development which accounts for the way they remain dependent on their human owners throughout their lives.

如果说狗与犬科确有相似性，那么也只是像未成年而非成年犬科。这种类似发育停滞的现象可以解狗为何一生都如此依 赖主人。

The film was also criticized for its inaccurate portrayal of the canine creatures, even though it offers some narrative reasons on why they are more violent than usual.

这部电影也因对犬科的错误呈现而收到指责，即使电影在叙事上也提供了一些为什么它们比平常更凶猛的原因。

Given a dog's acute sense of smell, scientists think canines can pick up on volatile organic compounds that cancer cells give off.

鉴于狗狗敏锐的嗅觉，科学家们认为，犬科可以闻到癌细胞的挥发性有机。

But coyotes are full-blooded members of the canine clan and like all dogs, they sometimes hunt in groups to tackle bigger prey.

草原狼则是血统纯正的犬科家族成员。并且和其他犬科一样，它们有时合作捕猎大型猎。

After a bit of number crunching, they created a graph to show the different rates at which canines and humans age.

经过一番数字运算后，他们绘制了一张图表以显示犬科和人类衰老的不同速度。

The historic range of these rust-colored canines stretched from Long Island across to Missouri and down to the Texas-Mexico border.

这些犬科呈铁锈色，历史分布范围从长岛一直延伸到密苏里州，向下一直延伸到德克萨斯州与墨西哥的边境。

The African wild dog is the only dog-like animal that has only four digits on the front paws.

非洲野犬是唯一一种前爪只有四趾的类犬科。

Other species of canids — dogs, wolves — hunt in packs, but her life is a lonely one.

其他的犬科——狗、狼，都是群体狩猎，但是鬃狼却是孤军作战。

Ten-second trivia, which of these animals is part of the Canidae family?

下面哪种属于犬科？

Yet this vast, unforgiving place is home to the world's smallest wild dog, the fennec fox.

然而，这处广阔而环境恶劣的地区却是世界上体型最小的犬科——耳廓狐的家园。

They're even better at it than apes, which are much more closely related to us than canines are, evolutionarily speaking.

它们甚至比猩猩更擅长这一点，从进化的角度来说，猩猩与我们的联系比犬科更近。