The lone wild dog of Mombo in Botswana feeds some black-backed jackal puppies.
Wild dogs and jackals feed their pups through regurgitating what they’ve eaten.
Under normal conditions, these jackal pups would be doomed if a wild dog showed up at their den. African wild dogs normally kill black-backed jackals and their pups. This one found herself without a pack of her own species, so she settled with joining up with a pack of a distantly related species.
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Now, given the dog’s drive to belong to a pack, doesn’t it make sense that if she could cross with those Jackals she would?
In a scenario where the only social choice left for a wolf is feral dogs or coyotes, cross-breeding is inevitable.
That’s exactly what I’m saying.
It also can give us some idea of how dog domestication could have gotten started. African wild dogs are every bit as social as wolves are, so imagine a young wolf that doesn’t have a pack. She can’t find any other wolves to join up with, so she moves onto another “pack,” just this pack is a human family of hunter-gatherers.
I guess dogs/canids from different species can recognize they are related or similar. I also read about a Indian wolf seen hanging around a dhole pack. Link and photo:
http://www.conservationindia.org/gallery/dhole-and-indian-wolf-debrigarh-odisha
There is a wolf in California that runs with coyotes, too.
Bingo!
Boehner is having crow for xmas or new year’s lunch