To: microgood
Scientists now classify the domestic dog and the wolf in the same genus. Is “wolfness” something that could be bred back into dogs, if it was at one time bred out of wolves to get dogs?
4 posted on
02/15/2012 12:03:15 AM PST by
HiTech RedNeck
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Scientists now classify the domestic dog and the wolf in the same genus. Is “wolfness” something that could be bred back into dogs, if it was at one time bred out of wolves to get dogs?
I do not know. Wolves are pack animals that feed off each other in violent ways and I know that is somewhat reproducible with packs of domestic dogs. Maybe if you mixed domestic dogs with wolf packs you could achieve something like that but the domestic dogs would probably not survive long in that environment.
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02/15/2012 12:20:11 AM PST by
microgood
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02/15/2012 9:15:34 AM PST by
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