Why dog snaps every fly. Fly laughed at dog's (feigned) death

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Why dog snaps every fly. Fly laughed at dog's (feigned) death.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: appearance and habits. · Animal's habitual bodily movements. · view the constellation · filed as A2479.8

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Africa (Cameroon) Mansfield 227.

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Filed under Other habitual bodily movements of animals.

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