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  2. Wolves as pets and working animals - Wikipedia

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    Wolves are sometimes kept as exotic pets, and in some rarer occasions, as working animals. Although closely related to domesticated dogs, wolves do not show the same tractability as dogs in living alongside humans, and generally, a greater amount of effort is required in order to obtain the same amount of reliability. Wolves also need much more ...

  3. Domestication of the dog - Wikipedia

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    One review considered why the domestication of the wolf occurred so late and at such high latitudes, when humans were living alongside wolves in the Middle East for the past 75,000 years. The proposal is that domestication was a cultural innovation caused through a long and stressful event, which was climate change.

  4. Evolution of the wolf - Wikipedia

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    There is little genetic information available on the ancient wolves that existed prior to the bottleneck. However, studies show that one or more of these ancient populations is more directly ancestral to dogs than are modern wolves, and conceivably these were more prone to domestication by the first humans to invade Eurasia. [131]

  5. The post Wolves Were Man’s First Best Friend. Why Did Dogs Take Their Place? appeared first on DogTime. Many of us are familiar with the domestication of dogs. We’ve heard some iteration of a ...

  6. Pleistocene wolf - Wikipedia

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    The wolves of MIS 7 were slightly smaller in body size than MIS 5 wolves and those found in Sweden today. These wolves were out-competed by the larger competitors, leading to a more omnivorous diet with increased crushing ability in an open environment that supported more types of prey and more non-meat foods than the MIS 5 period.

  7. Domestication of vertebrates - Wikipedia

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    Domestication has been defined as "a sustained multi-generational, mutualistic relationship in which one organism assumes a significant degree of influence over the reproduction and care of another organism in order to secure a more predictable supply of a resource of interest, and through which the partner organism gains advantage over individuals that remain outside this relationship ...

  8. Wolf - Wikipedia

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    The wolf (Canis lupus; [b] pl.: wolves), also known as the grey wolf or gray wolf, is a canine native to Eurasia and North America.More than thirty subspecies of Canis lupus have been recognized, including the dog and dingo, though grey wolves, as popularly understood, only comprise naturally-occurring wild subspecies.

  9. Wolves in EU could lose safeguards, allowing culls as numbers ...

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    The Commission argues that the number of wolves in the EU has almost doubled, from 11,000 in 2012 to over 20,000 today, and that they’re causing too much damage to livestock.