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Anonymous asked:
Have you heard about the Dog x Fox hybrid they found in Brazil?
bunjywunjy answered:
it’s actually a really interesting case of hybridization!
the animal in question has been genetically tested and confirmed to be a hybrid between a dog and a pampas fox, but the caveat there is that pampas foxes are actually in a new-world genus called Lycalopex, sometimes known as the False Foxes!
these animals are actually quite a bit closer to dogs than true foxes (everything in the genus Vulpes) are, genetically speaking, so it’s not too hard to imagine that it COULD happen, but it’s still pretty bonkers that it did!
here’s the miscreant in question.
