[Ansteorra] Enders game and Re: honor and animals

[kevinkeary at aol.com]

For an interesting take on dogs, wolves and species (gene pool/breeding population) boundaries, see Anti Gravity, Scientific American June 9.


Kevin


-----Original Message-----
From: Stefan li Rous <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com>
To: Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc. <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Fri, Apr 16, 2010 7:14 pm
Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Enders game and Re: honor and animals


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. 
 
Stefan 
 
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