Dogs are descended from two populations of ancient wolves

[mamooth]

If wolves and dogs are cross bred you get a Hybrid meaning they can't reproduce.

No, wolf-dog hybrids have no problems breeding.

There are "breeders" who can get you wolfdogs at any "percentage of wolf". It's best to not do so, as wolfdogs are unpredictable in behavior. A lot of people get them for the cool factor, but end up being unable to handle them.

 

[ReinyDays]

The word "dog" means pointer. It is prehistorically related to the Latin "digitus," which means finger.

I thought the Latin word for dog was canis ... or Anglisized as `canary`... looks like the word 'dog' is strictly English, of no known previous usage ... seems silly to mention this but Latin as a language is wholly within the historical record ... we know where it started, where it lived, and when it died ...

 

[ReinyDays]

No, wolf-dog hybrids have no problems breeding.

There are "breeders" who can get you wolfdogs at any "percentage of wolf". It's best to not do so, as wolfdogs are unpredictable in behavior. A lot of people get them for the cool factor, but end up being unable to handle them.

True ... we need to be careful using the word "species" with the canids ... fertile hybrids are kinda sorta commonly possible ... even though they CAN breed in captivity and these hybrids can reproduce themselves ... these specimens are extremely rare in nature ... it's not that they can't breed, just that they don't, for some unknown reason ... thus we have two populations that are reproductively isolated ... two species ...

 

[Sunsettommy]

My question is...if wolves howl...why do modern dogs bark?

Do wolves bark?

...do wolves like chocolate...my neighbors dog does.

My Terrier mix could howl and bark.

 

[Gabe Lackmann]

My Terrier mix could howl and bark.

Yeah...we had dogs growing up the same...but you ever heard a wolf bark?

 

[Vastator]

I thought the Latin word for dog was canis ... or Anglisized as `canary`... looks like the word 'dog' is strictly English, of no known previous usage ... seems silly to mention this but Latin as a language is wholly within the historical record ... we know where it started, where it lived, and when it died ...

True. But English isn’t a Latin rooted language. It is of the Germanic root. Of course todays English is highly bastardized, but it isn’t rooted in the Latin tongue.

 

[Vastator]

True ... we need to be careful using the word "species" with the canids ... fertile hybrids are kinda sorta commonly possible ... even though they CAN breed in captivity and these hybrids can reproduce themselves ... these specimens are extremely rare in nature ... it's not that they can't breed, just that they don't, for some unknown reason ... thus we have two populations that are reproductively isolated ... two species ...

Lots of animals in the wild reproduce, and form what we humans call hybrids. And their offspring are quite fertile. Especially prevalent at boundary regions. Like polar bears, and grizzlies. Not unheard of, or uncommon where their territories overlap.
But it really aggravates taxonomists. Because species, or sub-species is uncomfortably close to the exclusively human label of “race”.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

My question is...if wolves howl...why do modern dogs bark?

Do wolves bark?

...do wolves like chocolate...my neighbors dog does.

Adenoidal Airedales

The theory is that dogs are immature wolves, stuck in adolescence. So the barking is like a teenager whose voice is changing.

 

[petro]

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

I thought the Latin word for dog was canis ... or Anglisized as `canary`... looks like the word 'dog' is strictly English, of no known previous usage .

Dogs Saved Our Ancestors From Starvation

Dog comes from Indo-European, the mother language of all Caucasians. It also appears in Greek as deiknumi "I show," the noun form of which comes down to us as paradigm, "something pointed out to show the framework behind a theory."

Canis and its Greek equivalent kuon, are related to (cognate with from their Indo-European roots) the English words hound and hunt. Different languages concentrate on different characteristics of the things they name.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

True ... we need to be careful using the word "species" with the canids ... fertile hybrids are kinda sorta commonly possible ... even though they CAN breed in captivity and these hybrids can reproduce themselves ... these specimens are extremely rare in nature ... it's not that they can't breed, just that they don't, for some unknown reason ... thus we have two populations that are reproductively isolated ... two species ...

Rematch of Cro-Magnon Against Neanderthal

Human races, though they can interbreed, still come from different species. That's pretty obvious, despite what the race traitors tell us.

 

[Unkotare]

What exactly is “race traitor” supposed to mean?

 

[ReinyDays]

What exactly is “race traitor” supposed to mean?

People who don't believe in DNA? ...

 

[Unkotare]

People who don't believe in DNA? ...

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