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Article #1324Re: What is a species?
From: Barbara Bowen
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1990 13:38
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1990 13:38
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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 once every 2 months. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- EMAIL: barbara.bowen@Orlando.NCR.COM (...ncrlnk!ncrorl!bjb) ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!ncr-sd!ncrlnk!ncrorl!bjb 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) Distribution: na Organization: NCR Systems Engineering - Orlando Lines: 28