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To: Ichneumon
There are lebenteen zillion other sites covering the same territory and they all come up with the same answer ~ to wit: DOGS are WOLVES, and it's corollary: WOLVES are DOGS.

It's not just a clade thing ~

Biggest differences between wolves and dogs are that wolves have a longer snout and therefore a more dangerous muzzle. They tend to be bigger than most dogs.

But quite clearly they are the same species!!!

Coyotes, the Red Wolf, and the Gray Wolf interbreed freely in the wild. However, dogs and Gray wolves are more alike than they are like either the Red Wolf or Coyote.

Same, same, GI!!

310 posted on 06/27/2006 9:17:59 PM PDT by muawiyah (-)
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To: muawiyah

Dogs are in the process of speciation.

Very few dogs can still interbreed with wolves in nature.

Dachsunds and other very small breeds are at the end of a spectrum. Mating will not occur. Huskie females are ocassionally backbred to wolves.


315 posted on 06/27/2006 9:24:39 PM PDT by From many - one.
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To: muawiyah
There are lebenteen zillion other sites covering the same territory and they all come up with the same answer ~ to wit: DOGS are WOLVES, and it's corollary: WOLVES are DOGS.

Again, I invite you to come back when you have a better understanding of biology. Domestic dogs are in the wolf clade, but that doesn't make them magically have "the same genome" as wolves -- for that matter "wolves" isn't even a species designator, just as "apes" isn't. And again, if domestic dogs *had* the same genome as gray wolves which you keep wrongly claiming, they would be instinguishable from wolves, which of course isn't the case. And "wolves are dogs" when the word "dog" is used in its broad meaning, as in "canine". Try not to confuse the terms.

It's not just a clade thing

You keep clinging to that if you want to. Believe what you want, since you will anyway. I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you. And it's not like your misunderstandings matter.

323 posted on 06/27/2006 9:53:05 PM PDT by Ichneumon (Ignorance is curable, but the afflicted has to want to be cured.)
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