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Nearly half of Italy's wolves are part dog now, thanks to hybridization. Is that a threat to the species?
Between 15,000 and 30,000 years ago, a now-extinct population of wolves evolved into dogs, with a little help from humans.
The hybrids are taking over Italy, raising scientists’ concerns for the future of the country’s purebred wolves.
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: There are wolves that look like dogs, and dogs that appear suspiciously like wolves. For most, this is just a symptom of the fact that dogs are ...
The tiny, fluffy Chihuahua shuffling past you on the street may be part wolf. According to a new study led by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian's National Museum ...
Who said it first, no one knows. But Frederick the Great, warrior ruler and enlightened despot of 18th-century Prussia, said it well. “The only, absolute and best friend a man has, in this selfish ...
Parsifal is a feral dog from southern Italy being brought back into human society. My fellow Psychology Today blogger Marc Bekoff photographed him in Turin and calls him "one of the most amazing dogs" ...
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