what is it with Brazil and creating hybrid races of animals? why does it always happen in that country?
>https://www.businessinsider.com/dog-fox-hybrid-discovered-brazil-hit-by-car-2023-9
>The first known hybrid between a dog and a fox was discovered in Brazil after being hit by a car
>The first known hybrid of a dog and a fox has been discovered in the wild after being hit by a car in Brazil.
>The animal, nicknamed dog-fox, was found after it was taken to a vet in 2021, and hospital staff could not determine what it was, the British newspaper The Telegraph reported.
>Scientists studied the animal's genes and revealed in a recently published study that the animal's mother was a pampas fox. Her father was a domestic dog of an unspecified breed.
>View a photo of the unique animal here.
>The dog-fox resembles both a dog and a fox and shares characteristics with both animals, scientists said.
>She refused food and preferred live rodents, barked like a dog but had a thick coat of hair similar to a fox, and was initially cautious of humans but would eventually warm to them, per The Telegraph.
that sounds like something right up Brazil's alley all the favela biologists have to do that as a rite of passage
I'm almost sure they got it wrong?: it seems too docile and with facial expressions too recognizable; since it has 76 cromossomes, like the Maned wolf, and dogs and wolves has more history than dogs and foxes, I'm thinking it's a Maned wolf + Dog hybrid.
See
South American foxes are basically a wolf/coyote that evolved to look like a fox due to convergent evolution. Ironically the maned wolf is not closely related to wolves or any other canid family, it is the only living species of its lineage.
ITS NOT A TRUE FOX
>hehe... I'll quote an epic 'jak post I made, that'll show him
YWNBAF
Dani's gonna freak
will repost this on /int/ thanks
post link
>brazil
it’s also transgender
Fauna that is a relatively recent (geologically speaking) arrival to the continent but very isolated from the rest of the world seems ripe for some weird hybrids once it comes into contact with Eurasian fauna.
I don't know, it's weird. They've been trying to make human-dog and human-horse hybrids for a few decades now but nothing came of it. At least this one seems to have worked, if only for it to be hit by a car.
Is it fertile?
>Is [the corpse] fertile?
No, I don't believe so.
Getting hit by a car isn't instant death necessarily.
>The South American foxes (Lycalopex), commonly called raposa in Portuguese, or zorro in Spanish, are a genus from South America of the subfamily Caninae. Despite their name, they are not true foxes, but are a unique canid genus more closely related to wolves and jackals than to true foxes; some of them resemble foxes due to convergent evolution.
a little less weird.
You're meaning to tell me we don't have any true foxes?
My whole life has been a fucking lie.
>Country known for being supreme muttlandia next to america breeds more dysgenic impossible mutts.
Wouldn't surprise me if brazil tried they could breed a chimp-human mutt.
>what is it with Brazil and creating hybrid races of animals
Most of it is just cheap clickbait DIOS MIO LE CHUPACABRA CORPSE FOUND IN RIO DE JANEREIRO I REPORT FOR U
it's pic related
just google translate:
https://www.megacurioso.com.br/ciencia/127377-primeiro-hibrido-entre-raposa-e-cachorro-do-mundo-e-encontrado-no-brasil-apos-atropelamento.htm
What a cutie <3