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The dingo's social behaviour is about as flexible as that of a coyote or grey wolf, which is perhaps one of the reasons the dingo was originally believed to have descended from the Indian wolf. [84] While young males are often solitary and nomadic in nature, breeding adults often form a settled pack. [ 85 ]
Further, the dingo is regarded as a feral dog because it descended from domesticated ancestors. [1] [6] Gheorghe Benga and others [43] [44] [45] support the dingo as a subspecies of the dog. as Canis familiaris dingo Meyer 1793, [9] with the domestic dog being the subspecies Canis familiaris familiaris. [4]
The dog diverged from a now-extinct population of wolves 27,000–40,000 years ago immediately before the Last Glacial Maximum, [1] [2] when much of the mammoth steppe was cold and dry. The domestication of the dog was the process which led to the domestic dog.
Now, researchers say a genetic mutation that emerged in wolves before they were domesticated is responsible. Domestic dogs come in more sizes than any other mammal species. Now, researchers say a ...
Dogs, wolves, and dingoes have sometimes been classified as separate species. [6] In 1758, the Swedish botanist and zoologist Carl Linnaeus assigned the genus name Canis (which is the Latin word for "dog") [ 13 ] to the domestic dog, the wolf , and the golden jackal in his book, Systema Naturae .
The land bridge became inundated by the sea 10,000 YBP, the sheets receded 12,000–6,000 YBP, the Beringian wolf went extinct and the southern wolves expanded to recolonize the rest of North America. All North American wolves are descended from those that were once isolated south of the ice sheets.
The osteometric analysis of the skulls showed that one large canid fossil from Goyet was clearly different from recent wolves, resembling most closely the Eliseevichi-1 dogs (15,000 years YBP) and so was identified as a Paleolithic dog. [6] [78] The analysis indicated that the Belgian fossil large canids in general preyed on horse and large bovids.
In 1758, the Swedish botanist and zoologist Carl Linnaeus published in his Systema Naturae the binomial nomenclature – or the two-word naming – of species. Canis is the Latin word meaning "dog", [3] and under this genus he listed the dog-like carnivores including domestic dogs, wolves, and jackals.