Similarities in the middle of Wolves and Dogs

Similarities in the middle of Wolves and Dogs

The indigenous dogs of all regions approximate intimately in size, color, form, and behavior to the native wolf of those areas. Of this most needful case there are far too many instances to allow of its being looked upon as a mere happenstance. In 1829 Sir John Richardson recorded that "the resemblance in the middle of the North American wolves and the domestic dog of the Indians is so great that the size and power of the wolf seems to be the only difference".

Some citizen have said that the fact that dogs bark while wild wolves only howl is evidence that they are not related. This, however, is quite Silly since it is well known that any wild member of the canine house raised by a domestic mother will learn how to bark. It goes both ways as dogs allowed to run wild will forget how to bark.

It's very clear then that the trait of barking cannot be used as any kind of proof or disproof of the connection in the middle of dogs and their wild brethren. This stumbling block consequently vanishes, leaving us in the position of agreeing with Darwin, whose final hypothesis was that "it is extremely probable that the domestic dogs of the world have descended from two good species of wolf (C. Lupus and C. Latrans), and from two or three other doubtful species of wolves namely, the European, Indian, and North African forms; from at least one or two South American canine species; from several races or species of jackal; and maybe from one or more extinct species"; and that the genes of these, in some cases mixed together, flows in the veins of our domestic pets.

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