Labrador Retriever By: AMO

Scientific Classification| Fun Facts | Pictures 

Kingdom: Animilia

Characteristics that place it here:

• Multicelluar

• Ingest and digest food.

• Lack a cell wall

• heterotroph

• reproduce sexually

Phylum: Chordata

Characteristics that place it here:

• Bilateral symmetry

• segmented body

• three germ layers

• single dorsal nerve cord

• ventral heart

• complete digestive system

Class: Mammalia

Characteristics that place it here:

• Hair

• whiskers

• three middle ear bones

• produce milk

• lower jaw

Order: Carnivora

Characteristics that place it here:

• enlarged four upper and lower teeth

• good runners

• meat eaters

• simple stomach

Family: Canidae

Characteristics that place it here:

• legs are moderately elonged

• stance is digitigrade

• long face

• large teeth

Genius and Species: Canis, Canis lupus familians

Characteristics that place it here:

• eat

• simple stomach

• large teeth

• eat meat

• hair

• toes

• pads on their feet

References: Animal Diversity. April 17,2002 http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/canis/c._lupus_familiaris$narrative.html

Poem: Dog

The doggy sits waiting

Waiting for food

Food that its stomach is craving

Craving with hunger

Hunger that will soon go away

Away now that i have fed it.

Some fun websites that have something to do with labs: 

                www.serraschool.org/guidedogs 

                http://www.angelfire.com/mt/shogunlabs/linkspage.html

Fun facts: 

            Labs are commonly used as guide dogs. They are also commonly used as hunting dogs.   

Pictures: 

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