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Evolutionists will tell you they are for tearing at the meat, but do you really believe that the wolf or dog only grips the meat with its canine teeth to tear a piece off?

What are the rest of the teeth doing? Surely the dog bites as hard as is possible using the front teeth to cut off a piece of meat. In this process the canine teeth play little or no particular part.

Pack animals are often quick to rob one another, so if you drop the meat, or other food, you may have to fight for it, against another who has not yet got at the prey, or is greedy enough to rob you.
Raw meat takes a lot of chewing, and the molars are at the back of the mouth, and to chew successfully you need the meat to be moved about to chew all of it while breaking it up into smaller pieces that can be swallowed.

While watching our dog chewing I saw that she opened her mouth, and with a flick of her head, turned the piece of meat around to chew a different part. The "safety net" that stopped the meat from coming out of her mouth was the canine teeth. The canine teeth are not for tearing at the meat but to keep it trapped in the mouth so that others in the pack don't get a chance to grab it. Give a dog some hard meat and watch.

When playing with dogs with a piece of rag to fight over they seize it with all their teeth, not just the canine teeth, and pull like mad, shaking from side to side trying to tear a piece off, or get the rag from you. The canine teeth play little part in this as all the teeth are embedded as hard as the dog can bite with the incisors trying to cut through to release a portion the dog is fighting for.

This would also apply to bears, and many others, and also bats as dropping the fruit while trying to get rid of the stone or pips would mean having to find another piece of fruit, in competition with others. The canines make it easier to extrude the pip and retain the fruit and its juices.

Humans don't need raised canines as we look after one another, and share our food with the family as needed. We may fight, but it is not for food from someone's mouth, its more likely to be to protect the crop, or control of the land.

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