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Subject: Re: Life imitates art?
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Date: Fri, 29-May-87 12:11:03 EDT
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Summary: Dogs and wolves

In article <5438@sci.UUCP>, daver@sci.UUCP (Dave Rickel) writes:
> In article <4007@ihlpa.ATT.COM>, novo@ihlpa.ATT.COM (Novo) writes:
> > Does anybody know the details of other crossbred animals? Isn't a mule 
> > actually a crossbreed between a horse and a donkey? Haven't there been
> > crossbreeds between a dog and a wolf or a horse and a zebra?
> 
> I heard a rumor a while back about crosses between wild dogs and wolves
> terrorizing farms around Moscow.
> 

By the test of ability to have fertile offspring dogs and wolves are
actually the same species, even though they are named canis lupis and
canis domesticus.  Horses and donkeys are not the same species, and
while they are close enough to produce offspring, do not produce
fertile offspring.  

					Carole Ashmore