A Stray Dog Bred With a Wild Wolf—and Created a Staggering Hybrid

That isn’t usually supposed to happen.
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Nearly half of Italy's wolves are part dog now, thanks to hybridization. Is that a threat to the species?

Between 15,000 and 30,000 years ago, a now-extinct population of wolves evolved into dogs, with a little help from humans. Today—at least in Italy, which hosts one of Europe’s largest wolf populations ...
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Himalayan wolf-dog hybrids emerge as a threat to wolves and people

There’s no doubt. The greyish coat, the effortless trot over soft snow, the way it stops, stalks, then strikes, picking off a marmot and ending it with one bite: it’s a wolf. That’s what I’m watching ...
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A Stray Dog Bred With a Wild Wolf—and Created a Staggering Hybrid

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Wolves and dogs don’t normally breed in the wild, largely because wolves are so territorial. But an exception has been found. While wild dog-wolf ...