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Tonava@sopuli.xyz 1 week agoInterestingly some dog breeds also still lack those muscles, like huskies
Comment on Anon pets a dog
Tonava@sopuli.xyz 1 week agoInterestingly some dog breeds also still lack those muscles, like huskies
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Huh! You’re right, I did not know that.
Huskies are… much closer to being actual wolves though, genetically speaking.
Seems like this applies to malamutes and samoyeds as well…?
Tonava@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
I wonder do dingoes have them. I haven’t been able to find any information on that yet
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
My, ahem, blind guess would be probably not, as they’ve… not been widely and thoroughly domesticated for 20,000+ years?
Tonava@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Oh the genetic confirmation for dingoes to have arrived in Australia is about 8000 years ago these days. So it’s about when did the extra muscles evolve and in which genetic lines? Dingoes and the new guinea singing dog are traced to have come from the wolves domesticated in Asia, so I guess they wouldn’t have them unless they evolved independently or the genes spread before they got separated in Guinea and Australia? But then do japanese breeds also not have them since they’re from the same lines probably? I don’t know, there’s just too little information online. Or if there’s more, I can’t find it