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The Canis lupus/Canis latrans species complex
An Algonquin Park wolf. These wolves are naturally occurring hybrids between wolves and coyotes, not a unique "Eastern wolf" species as is commonly claimed. On average, they were found to share 58...
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The discovery of wolves in Senegal and a new species complex in the genus Canis
Canis lupus lupaster, the African wolf. Photo by Cécile Bloch. It wasn’t long ago that wolves were thought to be found only in Europe, Asia, and North America. However, there were always wolf-like...
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Jackal is a meaningless term
A side-striped jackal (Canis adustus), the jackal no one talks about. We’ve always called the smaller wild dogs in the genus Canis jackals. Historically, there were four species of jackal: the golden...
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Melanistic golden jackal discovered in Turkey
Melanistic golden jackal and normal-colored mate.. Photo courtesy of Can Bilgin and Hüseyin Ambarlı. Melanism in dogs, wolves, and coyotes has been a...
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Striped hyenas warn golden jackals about the food
“You guys don’t want any. It tastes like ass.”
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Baltic jackals
Trail camera photo of a golden jackal in Estonia. Source. One story that has missed much of the English-speaking press and English-speaking scientists is that the golden jackal’s range in Eastern...
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Canis is not a closed registry
Egyptian jackal or African wolf with golden jackal and wolf-like features. From “Roosevelt in Africa” (1910). One the strange ironies about dogs is that we have set up a system in which populations are...
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How jackals destroy the creationist concept of “kind”
Kent Hovind is out of prison, and seeing as he has a month of home confinement to waste time on the internet, he has been posting daily Q and A sessions on Youtube. Just e-mail him, and he’ll answer...
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African golden jackals are actually a new species of wolf
African golden wolf (Canis anthus). A study was released today in the journal Current Biology that will radically change how we classify the genus Canis. Using genome-wide analysis, researchers led by...
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Some thoughts on wolf evolution
We spend a lot of time debating about how wolves became dogs. A huge debate exists in the archaeological and paleontological literature about how one can determine whether the remains of a canid...
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