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Greater than the sum of its parts

10/31/2015

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It is rare for a new animal species to emerge in front of scientists’ eyes. But this seems to be happening in eastern North America.
LIKE some people who might rather not admit it, wolves faced with a scarcity of potential sexual partners are not beneath lowering their standards. It was desperation of this sort, biologists reckon, that led dwindling wolf populations in southern Ontario to begin, a century or two ago, breeding widely with dogs and coyotes. The clearance of forests for farming, together with the deliberate persecution which wolves often suffer at the hand of man, had made life tough for the species. That same forest clearance, though, both permitted coyotes to spread from their prairie homeland into areas hitherto exclusively lupine, and brought the dogs that accompanied the farmers into the mix. READ MORE
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Debra O link
2/21/2021 12:02:59 pm

Greatt reading this

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