New African Wolf Discovered *photo*

With so many animal deaths it's kind of exciting to see that a new specieshas been found!

Here is a pic of what is believed to be a new species of African Wolf

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The researchers have proved that the mysterious animal, known as the 'Egyptian jackal' and often confused with the golden jackal, is not a sub-species of jackal but a grey wolf.

The discovery, by a team from Oxford University's Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU), the University of Oslo, and Addis Ababa University, shows that grey wolves reached Africa around 3 million years ago before spreading throughout the northern hemisphere. The new wolf is a relative of the Holarctic grey wolf, the Indian wolf and the Himalayan wolf.

Read more here: www.sciencedaily.com...

Looks like a jackal and a wolf got lonely on a cold winter's night
But yes, it is cool to see new species coming about.

Peace,
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reply to post by speculativeoptimist


I thought he looked like someone needed to feed him a twinkie!

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I can has cheezburger?

Looks like a jackal/fox combination.. nothing like a wolf. But then again I am no zoologist. It took me a while to accept the fact that whales aren't actually fish.

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S & F

I would love to see more of this animal. I wonder if it could be the basis for the legendary Set animal simply because of the ears. Anyway speculation aside. It just goes to show how successful wolves are as a species.

I also wonder how big it is? I don't suppose it isd in the 100lb plus that the American wolf weighed in a recent thread!

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I searched for more information on it and couldn't find anything. What is the "legendary set"? I have never heard that phrase and would like to lok into it.

reply to post by Kangaruex4Ewe


My bad. I just wondered about the animal representation of the Egyptian diety Set. The "Set animal" has been suggested to be a donkey, an aardvark, a jackal or a wolf. It has also been described to be an extinct animal.

Rgds

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this just means white people just found out about what the locals probably knew about for many, many generations.

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To me, in my uneducated opinion, looks like a simple coyote.
"wolf"
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"coyote"
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Originally posted by Kangaruex4Ewe


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He looks suspiciously like Anubis to me... Sneaky sneaky Anubis, hiding all this time

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Heres another article linkage

More like a coyote / jackal cross... look at the ears on that critter.