How to Use canid in a Sentence

canid

noun
Definition of canidnext
  • At the time, at least 21 of the canids were known to wander the state’s rural areas.
    — oregonlive.com, 7 June 2019
  • But some of the canid skulls do not look exactly like those of wolves.
    — Virginia Morell, Scientific American, 1 July 2015
  • But red wolves are the most endangered canid in the entire world.
    — Arkansas Online, 2 July 2021
  • There has been a long debate about whether the small canid is its own species or a hybrid between the gray wolf and the coyote.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 1 May 2017
  • The hunter, police said, screamed at the animal and feared for his life before shooting the canid once.
    — Andrew Theen, OregonLive.com, 2 Nov. 2017
  • He and his colleagues also checked the genomes of 49 canid species known to live near the plateau, including wolves, dogs and jackals.
    — Emily Underwood, Smithsonian, 24 May 2017
  • Foxes, of course, are canids, members of the dog family.
    — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Feb. 2020
  • The other wolflike canid, the researchers concluded, is the coyote.
    — Ted Gregory, chicagotribune.com, 19 June 2018
  • The Keystone XL pipeline route would go through most of the remaining locations of the swift fox, a tiny canid about the size of a house cat.
    — National Geographic, 24 Mar. 2017
  • Many canid species, from wolves to African wild dogs, hunt in packs and prefer more open habitats, like tundra or grasslands.
    — Cara Giaimo, New York Times, 4 May 2020
  • Diet These canids are carnivores, and like to hunt and eat white-tailed deer, racoons, and small mammals like rabbits and mice.
    — National Geographic, 27 July 2019
  • But, like most things having to do with the predatory canids, even that number is disputed.
    — Kale Williams, OregonLive.com, 10 June 2018
  • At about 11 years of age, the canid was at the upper end of a wild wolf’s lifespan and, during the state’s annual wolf count, OR-7’s pack was observed but the elder wolf was nowhere to be seen.
    — oregonlive, 20 Apr. 2020
  • The device also helps prevent oral tissue injury as the canid’s teeth and mouth are examined.
    — Debra Utacia Krol, azcentral, 10 Feb. 2020
  • Game cameras also have captured photos of the elusive canids.
    — Lawrence Specker, AL.com, 19 Sep. 2017
  • So what really is this large canid that now occupies nearly all of the eastern US and Canada?
    — Popular Science, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Poaching has been on the rise in recent years, straining the canid’s population even further.
    — oregonlive, 15 Dec. 2022
  • So what really is this large canid that now occupies nearly all of the eastern U.S. and Canada?
    — Bob Humphrey, Outdoor Life, 9 Mar. 2021
  • The death of the canid comes just weeks after the state’s annual wolf report showed anemic growth in Oregon’s wolf population in 2021.
    — oregonlive, 5 May 2022
  • One researcher found that San Diego canyons with coyotes have healthier ecosystems that canyons without these canids.
    — Peter Rowe, sandiegouniontribune.com, 29 Apr. 2018
  • In the wild, canids such as wolves, foxes and other wild dogs may kick the ground after elimination for sanitary reasons.
    — Patty Khuly, miamiherald, 17 Aug. 2017
  • Lights and noisemakers, some of them activated by radio collars on wolves, can frighten off the canids.
    — Kale Williams, OregonLive.com, 10 June 2018
  • Once common throughout the southeastern United States, American red wolves are the most endangered canid in the world, according to the zoo.
    — Abbie Bennett, charlotteobserver, 2 May 2018
  • Divers also found the skull of a stocky, coyote-like canid previously only known from South America.
    — National Geographic, 25 Aug. 2017
  • So far the canids have been sighted mostly in green spaces, and reports of human conflicts are relatively low.
    — National Geographic, 29 Nov. 2019
  • Another surprise came from a simple test measuring the amount of time each canid hangs around a familiar person.
    — Popular Science, 10 Feb. 2020
  • But long before the canines arrived here, there were predatory doglike canid species who hunted the grasslands and forests of the Americas.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2022
  • Coyotes evolved alongside larger canids, like wolves, which often persecuted and harassed them and killed their pups.
    — National Geographic, 7 Aug. 2016
  • The M-44 device is triggered when a canid (i.e. coyote or wild dog) tugs on the baited capsule holder, releasing the plunger and ejecting sodium cyanide powder into the animal’s mouth.
    — National Geographic, 20 Apr. 2017
  • What is apparently the first tool use in a canid was observed recently, in a dingo named Sterling who really, really wanted to chew on something out of his reach.
    — Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 24 Feb. 2012

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