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Euphemia
wrote:
15 Dec 2025
As both dogs and dingoes are only wolves in neater clothes and all can interbreed and produce viable offspring, perhaps, I'll retract my suggestion and return to Canis lupus.
Canis lupus
KMcCue
wrote:
15 Dec 2025
Thanks Don, I was working on a reply quoting your recent article in the NPA Bulletin Vol 62, No 4 December 2025. Canis dingo is a more apt description based on recent DNA data. Also early European descriptions of southeast Australian dingoes included the descriptions black, white, tan and brindle.
Canis lupus
DonFletcher
wrote:
15 Dec 2025
And other modern ones say Canis dingo. The DNA says closer to Asian Wolf than to domestic dog.
Canis lupus
Euphemia
wrote:
15 Dec 2025
Older sources say the dingo is Canis lupus dingo, however, more modern sources list the dingo as Canis familiaris dingo, indicating a closer relationship to the domestic dog than the wolf. Those are gorgeously healthy dingoes.
Canis lupus
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