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A wolfdog is a canine produced by the mating of a domestic dog (Canis familiaris) with a gray wolf (Canis lupus), eastern wolf (Canis lycaon), red wolf (Canis rufus), or Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis) to produce a hybrid.
In May 2011, an examination of 48,000 single nucleotide polymorphisms in red wolves, eastern wolves, gray wolves, and dogs indicated that the red and eastern wolves were hybrid species, with the red wolf being 76% coyote and 20% gray wolf, and the eastern wolf being 58% gray wolf and 42% coyote, finding no evidence of being distinct species in ...
A wolf-hybrid is a term for a canine with mixed wolf and dog ancestry. The family was aware there was wolf in the dog’s lineage, Shelby County Coroner Lina Evans confirmed to CNN on Saturday. By ...
A wolf hybrid kept as a family pet fatally attacked a 3-month-old in Alabama, officials said. The animal lived with the infant’s family in Chelsea, according to a news release from the Shelby ...
A 3-month-old baby has died after being bitten by a "wolf-hybrid" that was kept as the family's pet, according to police in Alabama. The Shelby County Sheriff's Office said officers had responded ...
North American wolf biologists and geneticists also concluded that C. rufus and C. lupus lycaon were genetically more similar to each other than either was to C. lupus or C. latrans (B. T. Kelly, unpubl.). In 2002, morphometric analyses of skulls also indicate that the red wolf is likely not to be a gray wolf–coyote hybrid (Nowak 2002).
Police said the wolf-dog hybrid was kept by the three-month-old child's family as a pet.
The gray wolf is the largest wild member of the canid family, with males averaging 43–45 kg (95–99 lb), and females 36–38.5 kg (79–85 lb). [6] It is the most specialized member of its genus in the direction of carnivory and hunting large game.