The Cellar - View Single Post - July 31, 2015: African golden wolf, first new canine found in 150 years

Undertoad · 07-31-2015, 07:42 AM

Welcome to the African Golden Wolf, the latest species to ~~arrive~~ be discovered by mankind. not very golden though?

There you go. Anyway, all along, we thought this was a "golden jackal" - so obviously NOT, now that we know! Biologists worked out that this dawg is different from the original golden jackal and is an entirely new species of wolf. So it's the first new species of dawg in a long, long time.

(But only because we've worked out how DNA actually works and we can now analyze it down to species level.)

It's called the African golden wolf because when it barks, it doesn't go "woof", it goes "woo-" and then makes that clicky sound with its tongue.

Nat Geo article

07-31-2015, 07:42 AM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	July 31, 2015: African golden wolf, first new canine found in 150 years Welcome to the African Golden Wolf, the latest species to ~~arrive~~ be discovered by mankind. not very golden though? There you go. Anyway, all along, we thought this was a "golden jackal" - so obviously NOT, now that we know! Biologists worked out that this dawg is different from the original golden jackal and is an entirely new species of wolf. So it's the first new species of dawg in a long, long time. (But only because we've worked out how DNA actually works and we can now analyze it down to species level.) It's called the African golden wolf because when it barks, it doesn't go "woof", it goes "woo-" and then makes that clicky sound with its tongue. Nat Geo article