[Ansteorra] Enders game and Re: honor and animals

[Stefan li Rous]

Thanks. June 9, which year? This year? But it's only April! That seems awfully far ahead of time to be on the newstands.

I do have a subscription, so it should be arriving.

Stefan

On Apr 23, 2010, at 1:09 PM, kevinkeary at aol.com wrote:

> For an interesting take on dogs, wolves and species (gene pool/breeding population) boundaries, see Anti Gravity, Scientific American June 9.
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> Kevin
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> From: Stefan li Rous <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com>
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> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Enders game and Re: honor and animals
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> On Apr 16, 2010, at 6:55 PM, Hugh & Belinda Niewoehner wrote: 
>>>> A peculiarity of the wolf is that it cannot turn its head, because >>> there is no joint in its neck, but must turn its whole body 
>>>> when it wishes to look behind, thus symbolizing people stiff->>> necked and stubborn in sin. 
>>> 
>>> Oh? I hadn't noticed this. I'll have to watch my dog (Snowball, the >> dog that pulls the wagon) and see. 
>> Is she/he a wolf? I don't know if it is true of all breeds, but > seemed to be true for our thick necked ~75% timber/tundra wolf we > had for fifteen years. 
> 
> No. American Eskimo. But I thought all dogs were descended from wolves and that isn't something I think that would have changed. In fact, since dogs and wolfs do cross-breed and bear fertile offspring, I'm surprised they would be classed as separate species, since I thought that that was the definition of a "species". Hmmm. Something to check further. 
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> Stefan 
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