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General Category => Science and Technology => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on October 18, 2017, 08:33:49 AM

Title: Wolves and the call of the wild
Post by: Nearly Sane 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

Title: Re: Wolves and the call of the wild
Post by: Shaker 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  ::)