Are domestic dogs genetically compatible with wolves?
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They already are considered different species--even though they *are* genetically compatible (i.e., the hybrid is not sterile).  Some people believe that wolves and dogs are in the process of speciation--that is, they are becoming separate species, but haven't completely diverged yet.  Wolf-dog hybrids don't occur very often in nature because they have different social and mating patterns.  Nevertheless, if you stick a male and a female in heat together in a cage, eventually they're going to do it.
17910
Because species are defined by the ability to interbreed and produce viable progeny that can still breed.  A horse and a donkey can mate to give a mule, but the resulting mule is sterile.\n\nA better question is why dogs and wolves have different names scientifically.
602080
I'm a weredog.\n\nI met a werewolf once.\n\nMost of what we think about werewolves was invented by Hollywood. The ancient myths involved people donning skins, invoking the spirit of the wolf, and losing their humanity. There's a woman called Lupa who lives in a national park and becomes a wolf nightly. I met her, and I saw her lose herself to the spirit of the wolf\n\nI had just gone through a shamanic ritual to find and merge with my spirit animal, and my animal recognized her animal as being the same breed, but best to be wary of.\n\nShe was naked except for the wolf skin, and her body was amazingly toned, like a wolf. Her face showed more years than her age. She had a Ferrel quality to her. She could speak, but I she rarely spoke, or had anything to do with people, except to dance in her wolf skin around the fire, and then go off to whatever\n\nThere are still many times when I feel the spirit of the dog within me, although I don't think that I would ever wear dog skin. Maybe a furry, but that's a completely different thing.
619140
There is no reason for natural selection for most traits that differentiate most dog breeds. They have been bred. This is human selection, not natural selection. The breeder decides what traits he likes and controls the matings to favor this trait.
10054
A wolf is a canine (related to dogs.) A wolverine is a mustelid (related to weasels.)
796551
Yes\n\nLions and Tigers can mate if raised in captivity - Liger\nHorses and Donkeys mate - mule\nZebra and horse - Zorse
31240
I can't answer your question but I can say that Huskys are my favirot dog breed too!!!!
222383
Wolves came first. All dogs, even the weirdest breeds, can trace their genetic roots back to wolves.
218037
red wolves or red foxes?
698792
No. It is not a provable theory. \nHowever, there are lots and lots of folks out there who will, perforce, look and act a lot like you. And this might actually be an increasing trend, due to globalization.\nWhat happens when you breed a Schnauzer to a Schnauzer? You get a Schnauzer? What happens when you breed a Doberman to a Schnauzer? You get a "what is that"? The same is true for people.\nSee, back in the day (say 200 years ago), populations were generally more stable, and so the gene pools were rather, ahem, shallow. People could trace their lineage back ten generations (if they had the records available) and find that every one of their ancestors lived within ten miles of where they themselves lived.\nThis led to a lot of "dopplegangers" - people who were not "related" in any meaningful way, but shared so many genetic traits that they closely resembled you. It is why, even today, there are "national looks" so people can say, "Oh, he's German" or "Ah, she's English." In some rural areas of America, this is very much true still today. \nBut as we became more mobile, we lost that insularity that had bred up a bunch of dopplegangers. More and more, humanity was breeding up "mutts" - a bunch of "what is that breed?" people. And the tendency towards dopplegangers decreased, except in isolated rural areas of the world, and places where breeding mores (marriage rites) required mate selection from a very limited pool.\nBut there is a tendency for this sort of thing to level out; for the mutts to develop common traits. In Cairo, Egypt, all the street dogs have a certain common look - sharp nose and ears, medium sized, brushy tail, rough (but not curly) coat, black and tan coloration - that obtains in the vast majority of the strays (or did when I was there 20 years ago). That is because they have found that "real" look, and interbred so indescriminately that they have created a new "breed" - one that survives pretty well in pretty harsh conditions.\nNow humans are approaching, slowly, that new breed. Oh, prejudice and cultural concepts and such will continue to keep "races" isolated. Many Asians ("Mongoloid peoples") consider Negroids and Caucasoids to be inferior, and vice versa. But more and more, we are seeing intermarriage, and the development of a new genetic norm. Sure, there will probably always be "breeds" of humans, but eventually the mutts will be the major new breed.\nAnd when that happens, expect to see a recurrence of the "dopplegangers".\nPersonally, I think I look like Harry Nilsson.
377886
Wolves, they are very intelligent, strong, and care deeply for their packs, fact: Wolves were at one time the most widely distributed predator on the planet living in all of Europe, much of Asia, and almost all of North America.
96516
While a gray wolf is a canine, it is not a domestic breed.  Show dogs must be one of several certified breeds recognized by a particular governing body such as the American Kennel Club (AKC).  There are also international organizations who determine the validity of a breed for certain show dogs.
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I love wolves! They are cunning, stealthy, and harmless (unless you are a deer, rabbit, moose, or any other small animal! LOL)Wolves are more scared of humans than we are of them. They just want us to leave them alone. They are NOT savage creatures. So don't listen to that type of junk. The biggest breed of wolf is the Gray Wolf.
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There are some animals that mate for life, but i think that we shouldn't try to view their emotions in terms of human emotions. But I'm sure that they do lust after one another. Otherwise i don't think there would be much mating going on.
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1) The largest species of wolf is the grey wolf.\n\n2) There is already a species of wolf in Africa, and it has been there for over 5 million years. This is the Ethiopian wolf, and it is currently far more endangered than the grey wolf. It is reasonably expected t become extinct within the next 50 years.\n\n3) There is also another species of wild dog in Africa called, African WIld Dogs. Isn't that an original name. African Wild Dogs are also seriously threatened due priamrily to the introduction of diseases from domestics dogs.\n\n4) Assuming you could successfully introduce grey wolves into Africa you would almost certainly cause the extinction of both the Ethiopian wolf and the African Wild Dog. This is why actual scientists don't simply move species around without doing a lot of research on the potential effects.\n\n5) Grey wolves could only possibly survive in the very southernmost part of Africa. Grey wolves are temperate animals and they can not tolerate high temperatures, This is why wolves are restricted to Northern India and the US and have never live din Mexico or Southern India. They simply can not hunt on warm days. You MIGHT be able to introduce grey wolves to South Africa and Libya, but that would be the absolute limit of their potential range on the continent. Grey wolves could not tolerate the heat across 90% of the continent.\n\n6) Grey wolves may have strong jaws but they are weak compared to lions and hyaenas and comparable to African Wild Dogs.\n\n7) No wolf in the world could possibly outrun a lion, that is sheer fantasy.\n\n8) Grey wolves would have absolutely no chance defending themselves against hyaenas. African Wild Dogs have evolved to form packs of 10-20 adults to give them a fighting chance against hyaenas and they live in burrows. The largest grey wolf packs consist of less than 8 adults and grey wolve slive above ground. Grey wolves would be exterminated in short order by hyaenas.\n\n9) Wolves can’t live in jungles. Wolves have never lived in jungles. Wolves are temperate forest and grassland predators. They can not survive in jungles.\n\n10) It amazes me that you call yourself a student and claim to be concerned about wolves yet apparently know nothing about their behaviour or habitat requirements, or about related species already native to Africa.\n\nIn summary, any plan to introduce wolves to Africa is simply silly. Sorry, there’s no other way to describe it. It is hideously flawed on every level.
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Yes.  Consider dogs, which are all considered to be the same species.  Yet, it would be difficult to cross a Great Dane with  a Yorkshire Terrier (no silly jokes about stepladders please - this is Science!!).  Because of th edimorphism, these are effectively two different species - often called "Ring species".  You can look that term up on the web.
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North American Wolf - Sounds crazy, but in my journeys it is the animal I "feel" most connected to.\nTo spend each day hunting game, living with your family, running through the woods, Making Pups........Did I mention making pups???\nYes I realize hunted, hated, misunderstood, but that is not to differant from day to day life now.....