Hypothetically what is to stop me breeding a bunch of hybrid snakes and releasing them on an island somewhere they won't destroy the local wildlife to create a new species?
There have been several threads about this already. It's a coyote that someone called a "pampas fox" for the same reason maned wolves are called "wolves": no reason at all. There are already tons of coydogs, wolfdogs, coywolves, etc. It's not an actual fox-wolf hybrid at all, because that's physically impossible, and media outlets are running with this story because it makes for primo clickbait.
>no reason at all
A pampas fox is called a fox because it looks like a fox, dunderhead. I bet if you bred one with a red dog they'd look even more similar.
Yes, the Clymene dolphin. Spinner dolphins and striped dolphins interbreed so much in the wild that the hybrids are common enough to form their own populations.
>spend hundreds of thousands of dollars over the course of a few decades trying to breed fox to be pets/domseticated >turns out all you had to do was breed a fox with a dog or something
>they are more closely related to coyotes
Nope. They belong to a group of canids that is related to the group comprised by wolves, dogs and coyotes. i.e. it's equally related to all of them.
>coyotes in Brazil >Pampas foxes are coyotes >Pampas foxes are closely related to coyotes
There have been some genuinely stupid remarks in this thread.
Depends. It needs to happen consistently as a phenomenon and they need to be fertile over multiple generations. The more unrelated the parent species, the less common it is. Eventually, you reach a point where it's theoretically possible but almost never likely to happen because of the significant differences in genetic adaptations that would likely not manifest well in a hybrid.
>Are there any examples of that
There’s a population of hybrid Galapagos finches that are supposedly on their way to becoming a new species since they’ve stopped interbreeding with their parent species for the most part
Hypothetically what is to stop me breeding a bunch of hybrid snakes and releasing them on an island somewhere they won't destroy the local wildlife to create a new species?
Some ethnic groups like nordics and native americans are actually homo sapien neanderthal mutts.
Bat looking ass dog
Père David’s deer has sometimes been mooted as a possible example of a hybrid that became a species in its own right
it's like a big fruit bat:)
There have been several threads about this already. It's a coyote that someone called a "pampas fox" for the same reason maned wolves are called "wolves": no reason at all. There are already tons of coydogs, wolfdogs, coywolves, etc. It's not an actual fox-wolf hybrid at all, because that's physically impossible, and media outlets are running with this story because it makes for primo clickbait.
>no reason at all
A pampas fox is called a fox because it looks like a fox, dunderhead. I bet if you bred one with a red dog they'd look even more similar.
It's not a coyote. They are much more separated from dogs than coyotes are
IT'S DOGXIR CHUD
It's DogMAM
>look up pampas fox
>it's literally just a jackal, aka. a coyote
the name should be changed to pampas jackal what a joke
Yes, the Clymene dolphin. Spinner dolphins and striped dolphins interbreed so much in the wild that the hybrids are common enough to form their own populations.
>a dogxim
Uhm... EXCUSE MX???? Did you just assume thxr species affiliation????
>spend hundreds of thousands of dollars over the course of a few decades trying to breed fox to be pets/domseticated
>turns out all you had to do was breed a fox with a dog or something
Pampas foxes are not real foxes, they are more closely related to coyotes.
>they are more closely related to coyotes
Nope. They belong to a group of canids that is related to the group comprised by wolves, dogs and coyotes. i.e. it's equally related to all of them.
Look at the phylogeny retard.
It's not an actual fox. It's a shitty coyote.
As if this is something new. Fucking retard south americans. There's probably ten thousand coydogs running around my city.
Real coyotes are headed there.
Where did this retarded "it's akshually a coyote" meme come from?
>coyotes in Brazil
>Pampas foxes are coyotes
>Pampas foxes are closely related to coyotes
There have been some genuinely stupid remarks in this thread.
Depends. It needs to happen consistently as a phenomenon and they need to be fertile over multiple generations. The more unrelated the parent species, the less common it is. Eventually, you reach a point where it's theoretically possible but almost never likely to happen because of the significant differences in genetic adaptations that would likely not manifest well in a hybrid.
>Are there any examples of that
There’s a population of hybrid Galapagos finches that are supposedly on their way to becoming a new species since they’ve stopped interbreeding with their parent species for the most part
Yes Brazilians are a distinct species
>dogxim/dogxem
Pampas fox is called 'graxaim' locally
Dogxim = dog + graxaim
Meant to say
distinct species*
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1904824116
Yes