It's a harness.
I don't like collars - I wouldn't want one around my neck to be pulled on ;)
Posted on 10/21/2015 2:37:41 PM PDT by blam
By Paul Rincon
20 October 2015
Dogs may have become man's best friend in Central Asia, according to the study
Today's dogs can trace their origins to Central Asia, according to one of the most comprehensive genetic surveys yet.
Dogs are the most diverse animal on the planet - a legacy of thousands of years of selective breeding by humans.
But they derive from wild wolves that were gradually tamed and inducted into human hunting groups - perhaps near Mongolia or Nepal.
The findings come from an analysis of DNA from thousands of pooches, and are published in PNAS journal.
Cornell University's Dr Adam Boyko and his colleagues studied 4,676 purebred dogs from recognised breeds, as well as 549 "village dogs" - free-ranging animals that live around human settlements.
They hitched themselves to us, which was a pretty good gamble as it turned out Dr Adam Boyko, Cornell University
This latter group are the least studied, yet represent a crucial piece in the picture of modern dog diversity.
"The fact that we looked at so many village dogs from so many different regions, we were able to narrow in on the patterns of diversity in these indigenous dogs," Dr Boyko told BBC News.
Dog domestication is the kind of event that could have taken place independently in different corners of the globe. But the DNA of modern pooches doesn't provide any support for this idea.
"We looked exclusively to see if there was evidence of multiple domestication events. And like every other group that's looked for that, we found no evidence of it," said Dr Boyko.
"It looks like there's a single origin, although there are clearly situations where there has been... a little bit of gene flow between wolves and dogs post-domestication."
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ahahaha
What's the purple band around his chest?
AMEN to that. I took a 7 hour trip with my lab today and he was great company.
"They’ve been called a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde – with the modern addition that the married marauders are allegedly ripping off banks to feed a heroin addiction and seven dogs."
(ahem) Gone to the dogs.
Probably following the pee-mail trail is how they trace it.
It's a harness.
I don't like collars - I wouldn't want one around my neck to be pulled on ;)
Originally domestic dogs from Southern India who came over with early aborigines..
How did the dogs do that? Seems some scientist would have discovered it first.
Sweet.
The best. Lost one a year ago, age 14.
‘there’s a treat - not a scolding” - and he’s back in under 5 minutes.’
And with luck, no lawsuit.
Haha, logician.
If there is food involved, my dogs can find anything!
Good.
I live in a rural area and don't use a collar or harness. I do have a one acre fenced yard that contains them.
Dogs decended from dogs, not wolves, or anything else. What would you breed to a wolf to get a Maltese? Also, wolves are still here. Not buying any of their evolving idiocy.
I tell you what I will give a 1000 wolves and a 100 years to create anything other than a wolf then I will give you 500 more years then a 1000 more and you would still have a Wolf if it was possible we would of seen it done on its own thru natural selection how many packs of corgi’s have you seen running wild in the woods
my neighbor killed one of mine and if she makes it to where yours did , we have 4 sweet years left.
I almost hope I don’t outlive her . Love her that much
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