# dog (animal)

a big size live biological thing with fur

- Computed level: L17 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: emergence  ·  Arena: dog

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [matter](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-matter.substance), [live](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-live.biological), [big](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-big.size), [biological](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-biological.life), [fur](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-fur.material), [size](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-size.measurement)

**Through:** the matter and live together form a body that moves and is covered in fur

**Novel properties:**
- mobile body
- furred covering
- persistent form

## Examples
- Hachiko waited at Shibuya Station every day for nine years after his owner's death in 1925. *(everyday life)*
- Laika, the Soviet space dog, orbited Earth in Sputnik 2 in 1957 until life support failed. *(space exploration)*
- The Tibetan Mastiff, weighing up to 90 kilograms, guarded monasteries in the Himalayas for centuries. *(biology)*

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*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-dog.animal.json*  
*Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*