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Would the standard feral dog color suggest an origin someplace sandy?
by quercusa 5y ago
Would the standard feral dog color suggest an origin someplace sandy?
- jjtheblunt 5y agogood question, but central American / Caribbean is lush vegetation, so another guess might be reflecting sun?
- quercusa 5y agoCould be, but[0] suggests native populations were replaced by European varieties. Dogs were present in pre-Columbian America, presumably brought by early human migrants from Asia. Studies of free-ranging village/street dogs have indicated almost total replacement of these original dogs by European dogs, but the extent to which Arctic, North and South American breeds are descendants of the original population remains to be assessed. [0] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/248397726_Pre-Columbian_origins_of_Native_American_dog_breeds_with_only_limited_replacement_by_European_dogs_confirmed_by_mtDNA_analysis https://www.researchgate.net/publication/248397726_Pre-Colum...