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From: bjb@ncrorl.Orlando.NCR.COM (Barbara Bowen)
Newsgroups: rec.pets,sci.bio
Subject: Re: What is a species?
Summary: Wolf Hybrid
Keywords: artificial selection makes species identity meaningless
Message-ID: <833@ncrorl.Orlando.NCR.COM>
Date: 9 Feb 90 13:38:55 GMT
References: <2495@leah.Albany.Edu>
Reply-To: bjb@ncrorl.UUCP (Barbara Bowen)
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In article <2495@leah.Albany.Edu> gmr044@leah.Albany.Edu (Gregg Recer) writes:
>
>even if it wasn't wolves dogs might still be able to breed with wolves
>and produce viable offspring.  However, those offspring would then be
>infertile.  This same kind of mating barrier occurs in the
 ^^^^^^^^^ This is entirely wrong.  Wolf hybrids (with most often husky
 or german shepard) exist with varying concentrations of "wolf", which
 means that the offspring are FERTILE!!!  Friends of mine currently breed
 hybrids (intentionally) - the bitch is 50% timber wolf, 50% husky; the
 male is 75% wolf, 25% shepard - the pups/cubs are able to reproduce as
 well.
>morphological/physiological/behavioral/other variations develop
>between the two sub-populations which eventually render them unable
>to successfully interbreed.  However, by domesticating a wild species
 Further research in your excellent library is necessary.  (MURDOCK -
 WHERE ARE YOU???)  More information is available via:

The Wolf Hybrid Times
Subscription Dept.
P.O. Box 1423
Gallup, NM 87305

Subscription is 18.00 Dollars per year. The magazine is published
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