Black coat color in wolves from dogs

[rinalia]

Why do nearly half of North American wolves have black coats while European wolves are overwhelmingly gray or white? The surprising answer, according to teams of biologists and molecular geneticists from Stanford University, UCLA, Sweden, Canada and Italy, is that the black coats are the result of historical matings between black dogs and wild gray

Comments

[rozae]

This is fascinating!

[goingferal]

Coooool!

[houses7177]

Very cool. Thanks for the link!