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Nearly Sane

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Wolves and the call of the wild
« on: October 18, 2017, 08:33:49 AM »


Interesting and rather lovely article about why wolves don't domesticate.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/13/science/wolves-dogs-genetics.html

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Re: Wolves and the call of the wild
« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2017, 09:40:56 AM »
What a good article - but in a way stating the obvious: wolves don't domesticate easily (or fully) because they're the original package, whereas dogs have had 15,000 years (some estimates are longer) to be, in effect, watered-down wolves.

Homeopathically so in the case of mine  ::)
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