. Domesticated animals, their relation to man and to his advancement in civilization;. Domestic animals. THE DOG n the dog through the admixture of the blood of several differ- ent species, the wolf and the jackal being, perhaps, the prin- cipal or the only components of the hybrid stock. Here, too, the evidence of nature is against the supposition. No one has ever succeeded in hybridizing the wolf and the jackal, nor do our dogs show any more tendency to revert to the jackal than to the wolf. They meet their tropical relative. Greyhound after "the Kill" with as much animosity as is
. Domesticated animals, their relation to man and to his advancement in civilization;. Domestic animals. THE DOG n the dog through the admixture of the blood of several differ- ent species, the wolf and the jackal being, perhaps, the prin- cipal or the only components of the hybrid stock. Here, too, the evidence of nature is against the supposition. No one has ever succeeded in hybridizing the wolf and the jackal, nor do our dogs show any more tendency to revert to the jackal than to the wolf. They meet their tropical relative. Greyhound after "the Kill" with as much animosity as is proper, or at least customary, in the intercourse of allied yet distinct species. In fact, all the indices by which we are able to carry back the history of other domesticated animals to their primitive or even extinct ancestry, fail in the case of the dog. When the stock is allowed to go as nearly wild as they can be induced to become, we do not find that they thereby approach to any known wild form. It therefore seems. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate, 1841-1906. New York, C. Scribner's Sons
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