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originally posted by: Schmoe3755
Christ, you're telling me my parent's corn chip-smelling, underbiting rat of a Shih Tzu really used to be a wolf?
originally posted by: Unseendimension
Whenever I read things like this, and then I see someone’s Pug on a YouTube video or in real life, I have a hard time believing that their ancestors would look at a pug and not think to themselves… “What the actual F, happened to my blood line?”
Same for Chihuahuas, poodles, pomeranians, teacup poodles, and Peekapoos.
While I understand that man had a hand in creating those aberrations, I take a great deal of amusement when a Pug says “I am descended from wolves.”
Much in the same way that a chicken is descended from a Dinosaur. a reply to: Venkuish1
originally posted by: Unseendimension
No, the other guy had it right the first time. While I am sure that the dog is also lovely, those dogs are rotten. I mean just rotten, spoiled, and at times adorable.
And they often smell like corn chips.
Oddly enough, I have two shepherds, one of which is part Coyote. Both even with their primal prey drive, will ignore someone knocking at the door, but if I so much as open the fridge, they are on me like a burglar in the night.
We have destroyed the dire wolf, and replaced with dire consequences. Woe is us for our meddling with nature.
All kidding aside though, Having dogs makes me more relatable, and attractive to the ladies at the park that I walk my dogs at. So if you are looking for a way to attract someone of the opposite sex, Get yourself a puppy, raise it right, treat it well, and take it to the park where women jog and walk. I promise you, they’ll notice the dog, and then maybe notice you.
a reply to: Venkuish1
A biological species is a group of organisms that can reproduce with one another in nature and produce fertile offspring
originally posted by: Schmoe3755
Christ, you're telling me my parent's corn chip-smelling, underbiting rat of a Shih Tzu really used to be a wolf?
originally posted by: Venkuish1
We have destroyed the dire wolf, and replaced with dire consequences. Woe is us for our meddling with nature.
All kidding aside though, Having dogs makes me more relatable, and attractive to the ladies at the park that I walk my dogs at. So if you are looking for a way to attract someone of the opposite sex, Get yourself a puppy, raise it right, treat it well, and take it to the park where women jog and walk. I promise you, they’ll notice the dog, and then maybe notice you.
originally posted by: Xtrozero
originally posted by: Venkuish1
We have destroyed the dire wolf, and replaced with dire consequences. Woe is us for our meddling with nature.
All kidding aside though, Having dogs makes me more relatable, and attractive to the ladies at the park that I walk my dogs at. So if you are looking for a way to attract someone of the opposite sex, Get yourself a puppy, raise it right, treat it well, and take it to the park where women jog and walk. I promise you, they’ll notice the dog, and then maybe notice you.
In many parts of the world, wolves were once one badass creature. They were above humans in the predator line.
Although the domestic dog’s origin is still unclear, this lineage is believed to have been domesticated from an extinct population of gray wolves, which is expected to be more closely related to dogs than to other populations of gray wolves. Here, we sequence the whole genomes of nine Japanese wolves (7.5–100x: Edo to Meiji periods) and 11 modern Japanese dogs and analyze them together with those from other populations of dogs and wolves. A phylogenomic tree shows that, among the gray wolves, Japanese wolves are closest to the dog, suggesting that the ancestor of dogs is closely related to the ancestor of the Japanese wolf. Based on phylogenetic and geographic relationships, the dog lineage has most likely originated in East Asia, where it diverged from a common ancestor with the Japanese wolf. Since East Eurasian dogs possess Japanese wolf ancestry, we estimate an introgression event from the ancestor of the Japanese wolf to the ancestor of the East Eurasian dog that occurred before the dog’s arrival in the Japanese archipelago.
A biological species is a group of organisms that can reproduce with one another in nature and produce fertile offspring.