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Title: Domesticated animals and plants; a brief treatise upon the origin and development of domesticated races, with special reference to the methods of improvement
Identifier: domesticatedan00dave (find matches)
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Davenport, E. (Eugene), 1856-1941
Subjects: Breeding; Domestic animals; Plants, Cultivated; Animals, Domestic; Breeding; Plants
Publisher: Boston, New York : Ginn and company
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library

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2o8 DOMESTICATED ANIMALS AND PLANTS coyote of the prairie and often with a dash of blood of the timber wolf to give energy and ferocity (see Fig. 3). A very doglike wild animal is the fox, which, however, is not commonly regarded as one of the immediate progeni- tors of the common dog on account of structural differences in the skull and the more significant fact that the pupil of
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Fig. 35. The dingo, or wild dog of Australia ; nearer the domestic dog than any other existing wild species his eye is elliptical, whereas it is round in the wolf, the jackal, and the dog. These slight structural differences, however, are counting for less than formerly in tracing relationships, and the fact that cer- tain South American wolves are very foxlike, as are some of our dogs, leads us to be careful in denying the fox even remote connection witii our domesticated races.

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