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Wolfdognoun
Etymology: wolf and dog.
The luckless prey, how treach’rous tumblers gain,
And dauntless wolfdogs shake the lion’s mane. Thomas Tickell.
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Wolfdog
A wolfdog is a canine produced by the mating of a domestic dog (Canis familiaris) with a gray wolf (Canis lupus), eastern wolf (Canis lycaon), red wolf (Canis rufus), or Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis) to produce a hybrid.
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Wolfdog
A wolfdog is a canid hybrid resulting from the hybridization of a domestic dog to one of four other Canis species, the gray, eastern timber, red, and Ethiopian wolves. Intra-hybridizations between dogs and other subspecies of gray wolves are the most common wolfdogs since dogs and gray wolves are considered the same species hence are genetically very close and have shared vast portions of their ranges for millennia. Such hybridizations in the wild have been detected in many populations scattered throughout Europe and North America, usually occurring in areas where wolf populations have declined from human impacts and persecutions. At the same time, hybrids are also often bred in captivity for various purposes. Inter-hybridizations of dogs and two other North American wolf species have also occurred historically in the wild, although it is often difficult for biologists to discriminate the dog genes in the eastern timber and red wolves from the gray wolf genes also present in these wolf species due to their historical overlaps with North American gray wolves as well as with coyotes, both of which have introgressed into the eastern timber and red wolf genepools.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of wolfdog in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of wolfdog in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
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