Canary Islands dogs, mummified them and treated dogs generally as holy animals. The ancient Greeks also knew about a people, living far to the west, who are the "dog-headed ones", who worshipped dogs on an island. Some hypothesize that the Canary Islands dog-worship and the ancient Egyptian cult of the dog-headed god, Anubis are closely connected but there is no explanation given as to which one was first. Other theories speculate that the name comes from the Nukkari Berber tribe living in the Moroccan Atlas, named in Roman sources as "Canarii", though Pliny again mentions the relation of this term with dogs.
Natural History of the Canary Islands his time in the islands between 1828 and 1920, he recollected the specimens from the area and together with Sabin Berthelot, he made an encyclopedic like work which took about 20 years to complete. One of the other contributors to the work included Justin Pierre Marie Macquart and Alfred Moquin-Tandon. Natural History of the Canary Islands Natural History of the Canary Islands (French: Histoire Naturelle des Îles Canaries) is a book with illustrations and written descriptions of botany from the Canary Islands, it was written in collaboration by Philip Barker Webb and Sabin Berthelot. It was published in Paris between