December 12, 2011

Doggie Factoids

I found this site via City Dog/Country Dog. It's comically illustrated factoids about dog anatomy versus ours. How cool is this? What a great teaching tool to explore with children!

Perhaps one of the more enlightening pieces of information was the fact that dogs only have 1700 taste buds clustered around the tip of their tongue compared to our 10,000 that are all over our tongue (and even on the insides of our cheeks!). This could explain some of dogs—ahem!—less desirable food choices. Scat, anyone?

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