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Wolves acting like dogs

  • 05-04-2012 5:03pm
    #1
    Chris_Heilong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,974 ✭✭✭


    Just putting this up for people to make their own minds up; I am of the opinion that dogs developed from Wolves and much of their body language are signals used to communicate with us but we misinterpreted these signals sometimes. This video shows wolves greeting a woman who once raised them but had not seen them for a very long time, look how familar many of these behaviors are to us dog owners, wagging tails, licking face, humping other wolves...its all very natural.
    http://www.godvine.com/Woman-Reunites-with-the-Wolves-She-Socialized-Awesome-1334.html


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  • #2
    WolfgangWeisen
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    Dogs share 99.8% of their genes with wolves, so it extends far beyond "opinion'.

    The horizon documentary on nature versus nurture highlighted the importance of that .2% though.


  • #3
    Chris_Heilong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,974 ✭✭✭Chris_Heilong


    well there would be a few different kinds of wolves mixed in as man traveled the globe so that could account for the 2% difference, they maybe be related to a now extinct family so that would also account for a difference if they were looking at present day DNA. The opinion part comes from a new movement that say dogs are completely difrent from wolves and a few on these boards hold this view;)


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