Topic
Animals
The animal kingdom, and the creatures closest to us.
10 entries in Animalia
Canidae
Dog
The dog is the domesticated descendant of the gray wolf — the oldest companion species, reshaped by millennia of human selection into hundreds of breeds and spread across every human landscape.
Felidae
Cat
The domestic cat is a small, solitary hunter that chose the human settlement — and then the human sofa. Its story is one of the least intentional domestications in history.
Canidae
Gray Wolf
The gray wolf is the largest wild canid, a pack-hunting carnivore of the Northern Hemisphere whose range and reputation have been reshaped by people.
Felidae
African Wildcat
The African wildcat is the small, tabby-striped ancestor of the domestic cat, widespread across Africa and southwestern Asia but increasingly diluted by hybridization.
Dog breeds
Labrador Retriever
The Labrador Retriever is a medium-to-large gundog from the North Atlantic, bred to retrieve in cold water and ranked among the most popular breeds in the United States and Britain.
Dog breeds
German Shepherd Dog
The German Shepherd Dog is a large herding breed from Germany, built for work and prized for its trainability — and it needs a job to stay sound in body and mind.
Dog breeds
Border Collie
The Border Collie is the sheepdog of the Anglo-Scottish border: an intense, biddable herder whose working and show lines have diverged, and whose exercise and health needs are often underestimated.
Cat breeds
Maine Coon
The Maine Coon is New England's native longhair: a large, slow-maturing cat with a shaggy coat, a sociable temperament, and inherited heart and joint conditions that breeders screen for.
Cat breeds
Siamese cat
A pointed, blue-eyed cat from Thailand, bred to a long wedge and a loud voice — and shaped by a small set of inherited risks that breeders now test for.
Cat breeds
Persian cat
The long-coated, flat-faced cat of the drawing room: an old breed whose extreme type has put breathing, eyes and breeding at the center of a modern welfare debate.