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oo1@lemmings.world 1 month ago
There’s also a possibility that if humans live coyotes closely for several generations, it is likely to end up domesticated - one way or another.
Oh hang on, millions of humans already do live closely with domesticated canids.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
A few dats ago i tried to look up the genus of my dog breed with the presumption i would find like a family tree of how breeds relate to eachother.
Turns out the scientific name for my dog is “Canis familiaris”
So is the scientific name of literaly any dog breed, its literally latin for “domesticated canine”
So yeah a domesticated coyote would indeed just count as a dog breed like any other.
Ashen44@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
the reason all domestic dogs are canis familiaris is because they’re all the same species. They can all have non-sterile babies with each other, which is the most commonly accepted definition of a species. A domesticated coyote would still be its own species and get its own scientific name because it would not be able to breed with dogs, at the very least without having a sterile baby.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
I hate to well actually you but coyote can breed with dogs and the offspring are known to be fertile for at leas 4 generations.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coydog
The same is true for wolf-dogs.
Their are increased chances for complications so i guess fertility is lower but that is only verified to be true with wild parents specimen.
Domesticated coyote would likely be bred based on properties like ability to coexist with dogs so over time the species would merge more and more, complications would smooth out.
I believe we have a similar history with the neanderthaler.
Ashen44@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
damn that’s crazy to know. It’s wild how stuff like this is possible, I guess that means coyotes and dogs are basically the same animal already.