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Raccoon Dog at Fukuyama, Hiroshima prefecture, Japan, 663highland, GFDL+creative commons2.5<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So, I was learning about Trophic cascade <\/a>and how reintroducing wolves to Yellowstone<\/a> changed everything, down to the land and rivers.\u00a0 And then I was sharing this knowledge with a co-worker when her mind turned to coyotes and then to their interbreeding with wolves.\u00a0 And now I am learning something else.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0 Coywolf<\/a> is a coyote-wolf hybrid.\u00a0 They have been in the north eastern part of the country for near a hundred years and are sometimes lumped in with the group of Eastern Coyotes (DNA testing has shown that most Eastern Coyotes have Wolf genes).\u00a0 This canid is one of the rare, successful, natural hybridizations, probably due to depleted wolf populations and lack of mates for wolves (Wikipedia entry<\/a>).<\/p>\n

I find it especially interesting that this hybridization combines the strongest behavioral characteristics as well:\u00a0 a coyote’s comfort with populated areas and a wolf’s tendency to move in packs.\u00a0 This is kind of creepy.\u00a0 Especially since coywolves are bigger than coyotes.
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\nAs interesting as the coywolf is, my favorite canid is still the raccoon dog<\/a> (pictured above).\u00a0 Raccoon dogs, aka tanuki, have the most ancient canid DNA for a living species today, and they have a wealth of legend and story.<\/p>\n

And since we’ve gone to Asia with the raccoon dog, it would be remiss of me to not mention Pallas’s Cat<\/a>\u00a0 (pictured).\u00a0 This fuzzy, solitary, house cat sized felid, looks to me like someone mixed a cat and a monkey, specifically:\u00a0 a tamarin.\u00a0 They also remind me of my cat, Sparkles.<\/p>\n

If canids and felids aren’t your thing, perhaps you are a bird person.\u00a0 I know quite a few of those.\u00a0 The Potoo bird is native to Africa, and looks like some trick of taxidermy, or as if it under went a treatment with Kai’s Goo<\/a>.\u00a0 Ya’ll remember that program, right?<\/p>\n

In any case, muppets are real people too (images from a Google search and unfortunately without attribution anywhere I could find them posted).<\/p>\n

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So, I was learning about Trophic cascade and how reintroducing wolves to Yellowstone changed everything, down to the land and rivers.\u00a0 And then I was sharing this knowledge with a co-worker when her mind turned to coyotes and then to their interbreeding with wolves.\u00a0 And now I am learning something else. The\u00a0 Coywolf is a… Continue reading evolutionary diversion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-5031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-learning"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10509,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2023\/03\/06\/the-prehistory-of-solar-panels\/","url_meta":{"origin":5031,"position":0},"title":"The prehistory of solar panels","author":"leems","date":"March 6, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"George Cove\u2019s third solar panel. 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