Many authorities today believe our dogs were selectively bred
from an ancestral wolf and the wolf is not only a pack animal, it is a den animal.
Not exact matches
Those cognitive skills likely evolved
from the already highly organized behavior we believe was present in
ancestral wolves.
Written into the genome of modern domestic dogs are the genetic footprints of the demographic and selective forces underlying their transition
from ancestral gray
wolves.
The Lhasa Apso came
from the Himalayan mountains and is closely related to The
ancestral wolf.
One study
from 2015 by the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School theorized that today's domesticated dogs might owe their
ancestral origins to multiple ancient
wolf breeds.