has a a lot of variation allowed in the breed

this is super wolf like

I mean whatever you like but I have this wolf archetype in my mind other dogs look weird for me <:thonking:318673885497262091>

dogs aren't wolves

tbh I wonder if theres genetic data on this

like too check which breed is the closest and which went the furthest from the wolf

>dogs aren't wolves
wolf is the roman empire of dog world tbh

what's the closest relative of the african wild dog and the wolf?

closest common relative*

why would i know that

i had this cool picture of my ancestor : ) with a dog and a wolf

>no german shepard

i drop this graph!

.img ethiopian wolf

its actually german SHEPHERD sorry for butchering english

im dumb and wrong

no one cares about FACTS anymore

does poland have lynxes?

.img ris v sloveniji

ooooh

that makes sense now

`Czechoslovakian Vlcak—A breed recognized by the FCI, originating by a crossing of 48 German Shepherd Dogs and four Carpathian wolves`

no shit

based

we have some but not many

`They found that the four dogs closest to their wolf ancestors are the Shiba Inu, chow chow, Akita and the Alaskan malamute.`

based Asians preserving the true dog ancestry

pure blooded wolf

>closest

doesn't really look anything like a wolf thio

another pure

comf

ok this one makes sense

>>closest
doesn't really look anything like a wolf thio

external looks can be very very deceiving

there are many cases in biology when closely related species look apparently different

theres a thing called convergence in biology which means that generally, its likely evolution comes up with a "similar" result but through different means