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This Hyena Was Cornered By A Pack Of Wild Dogs, But What It Does Next Is Genius

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December 3rd, 2015 at 1:00:00 AM permalink
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011	So the dog with the wild coloring and the white tipped tail has never been domesticated. How hard can it be, he's beautiful. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose.

December 3rd, 2015 at 8:44:02 AM permalink
Ayecarumba Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 89 Posts: 1744	Quote: Evenbob So the dog with the wild coloring and the white tipped tail has never been domesticated. How hard can it be, he's beautiful. I don't think Basenjis bark. I am sure these wild dogs bark. What happened in between?

December 3rd, 2015 at 12:13:28 PM permalink
Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095	What is the difference between a dog and a dingo? Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber

December 3rd, 2015 at 12:54:35 PM permalink
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 189 Posts: 18764	Dingo 'ill eat yer baby. You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really?

December 3rd, 2015 at 1:11:20 PM permalink
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011	Quote: rxwine Dingo 'ill eat yer baby. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose.

December 3rd, 2015 at 1:43:55 PM permalink

Ayecarumba

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Quote: Wizard
What is the difference between a dog and a dingo?

According to the Australian Reptile Park website, Dingos and dogs are closely related.

Quote: Australian Reptile Park
"Purebred dingos are becoming increasingly rarer in the wild. Feral domestic dogs will readily interbreed with dingos a process which effectively dilutes the genetic uniqueness of this animal. The dingo is a medium-sized dog weighing in at 15-20kg. Despite its common image of a reddish-brown coat, colouration varies and includes very pale creamy-brown forms and even black and tan."

photo: Victoria Zoos

Quote: Victoria Zoos
"Related to the Indian Wolf, the Dingo has become genetically distinct through isolation after its arrival on the Australian mainland around 5,000 years ago.

Unlike domestic dogs, Dingoes only breed once a year. Social hierarchy within a Dingo pack dictates that only the leaders breed. All members of the pack help to rear the pups.

Instead of barking, Dingoes howl to let neighbouring dingoes know where their territorial boundaries are. In a Dingo chorus each animal howls at a different frequency and pattern. This tells other Dingoes who and how many are in the pack."

December 3rd, 2015 at 3:17:18 PM permalink

Pacomartin

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Quote: Wizard
What is the difference between a dog and a dingo?

Not a lot! Dingos are not even classified as a separate specie on the biological family Canidae. They are a subspecies

The origin of the word "dog"remains one of the greatest mysteries of English etymology. Animals that are called dogs (other than domestic dogs) may or may not be closely related biologically. The word forced out Old English "hund" by 16c. and subsequently was picked up in many continental languages - French dogue, Danish dogge, German Dogge .

These three species are very closely related
Gray wolf, Canis lupus
Domestic dog, Canis lupus familiaris
Dingo, Canis lupus dingo

The African wild dog is much more distantly related to the Grey Wolf/Domestic Dog/Dingo having split off from a common ancestor millions of years ago.

Canidae that are not extinct from Dog genome sequence and analysis published in Nature

Quote: Nature article notes on image

In the phylogenetic tree branch colours identify the red-fox-like clade (red), the South American clade (green), the wolf-like clade (blue) and the grey and island fox clade (orange).

The tree shown was constructed using maximum parsimony as the optimality criterion and is the single most parsimonious tree.

Bootstrap values and bayesian posterior probability values are listed above and below the internodes, respectively; dashes indicate bootstrap values below 50% or bayesian posterior probability values below 95%.

Horizontal bars indicate indels, with the number of indels shown in parentheses if greater than one. Underlined species names are represented with corresponding illustrations. (Copyright permissions for illustrations are listed in the Supplementary Information.)

Divergence time, in millions of years (Myr), is indicated for three nodes.

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