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To: GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
Dogs with curled tails are originally from cold climates. Their tails are curled so it stays warm and doesn't freeze and break off!.. BRILLIANT!


7 posted on 09/13/2013 10:45:18 AM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
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To: GeorgeWashingtonsGhost

The curled tails in dogs is a result of selective breeding by man. This feature is not found in wolves, foxes and other canine type species. The domestication and breeding of foxes in Siberia for the fur industry has show similar trends in the later generations of foxes, just like dogs. The genes are apparently there, but not expressed in the wild............


13 posted on 09/13/2013 11:00:06 AM PDT by Red Badger (It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. .....Voltaire)
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