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Dingo declared a separate species - Australian Geographic
I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food
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Someone who studies Canines. (or the Breeding thereof)
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Originally Posted by discovery39
AHHH so that explains my teenage years
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Here you go Bob.
[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynology"]Cynology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]
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I was always under that the Dingo (Canis Familiaris) came to Australia somewhere between 25-35 thousand years ago across the land bridge which the Australian Aborigines used when they arrived here, and as they tell in their "Dreamtime" the Dingo was their semi-domesticated pet/companion animal.
And the Chamberlain incident isn't quite truthful.
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The definition of a species is if they can breed & produce viable offspring. To be completely scientifically accurate C canis (wolf) C familiaris (domestic dog) & C dingo (dingo) are subspecies or varieties rather than distinct species as they can interbreed & produce viable offspring.
As an example - lions & tigers can interbreed, as can horses & donkeys, but in both cases the offspring are sterile ( not viable)
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Well, you live & learn. Never heard of it before, wonder how much you get for it in scrabble? Keep this one in the back pocket, Bob
I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food
A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking
Master
From memory the requirement for definition of a species is also not just that they can interbreed and produce viable offspring, but also that they do interbreed and produce viable offspring in nature.
This is going back to high school biology in 1989, so willing to be corrected here
Master
Geographic separation leads to speciation (where one species becomes two). Elk (Europe) & moose (N America) are 2 populations of the same species but given different common names. Since the two populations are geographically separated they are unable to interbreed in the wild, and genetic drift may well lead to them becoming separate species, but if they are interbred (in a zoo or whatever) the offspring is viable and therefore they are the same species (for the moment anyway)
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