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Now for the evidence adduced in support of the former assertion, 
some domesticated species of dog closely resembling the wild wolf. 
Sir John Richardson says of the Eskimo dog that it is not only 
extremely like the North American wolf (Canis /upus), both in form, 
colour, and nearly in size, but that the howl of both animals “is: pro- 
longed so exactly in the same key that even the practised ear of an 
Indian fails at times to discriminate them.” He adds of the dog of the 
Hare Indians, a distinct breed, that it is almost the same as the prairie 
wolf (Canis datrans), the skull of the dog appeared to him a little smaller, 
otherwise he could detect no difference in form, nor fineness of fur, nor 
the arrangement of spots of colour. 
Professor Kitchen Parker writes: ‘‘ Another observer remarks that, 
except in the matter of barking, there is no difference whatever between 
the black wolf-dog of the Indians of Florida and the wolves of the same 
country. The dogs also breed readily with the wild animals they so 
closely resemble. The Indians often cross their dogs with wolves to 
improve the breed, and in South America the same process is resorted 
to between the domesticated and the wild dogs.” He then goes on to 
allude to many varieties of dogs closely resembling wolves—the shepherd 
dog of Hungary, which is so like that a Hungarian has been known to 
mistake a wolf for one of his own dogs. Some Indian pariahs, and 
some dogs of Egypt, both now and in the condition of mummies, closely 
resemble the wolf of their country. The domestic dogs of Nubia and 
certain mummified forms are closely related to jackals. The Bosjesman’s 
dog is very like the black-backed jackal (Canis mesomelas). Domestic 
dogs which have run wild do in some measure, though not entirely, 
revert to the wolf type. The dingo of Australia is thought to be derived 
from some imported variety of dog. The wolf is easily tamed, and 
even in its wild state has some of the peculiarities of the dog; for 
instance, a young wolf, when surprised and threatened by the hunter, 
will crouch and fawn like a spaniel. Mr. Bell tells of a she-wolf in the 
Regent’s Park Zoological Gardens which would bring her cubs to the 
bars of the cage, that they might be caressed by the visitors; and there 
is a most interesting account, too long for insertion here, in the third 
volume of the old /rdia Sporting Review (new series) chiefly taken from 
Major Lloyd’s ‘Scandinavian Adventures,’ of the tameability of wolves, 
giving an instance of two cubs out of a litter of three becoming as 
faithfully attached as any dog. The period of gestation (sixty-three days) 
is the same in both animals, and they will interbreed freely, the progeny 
being also fertile. There only now remains the question of the bark, 
which, singularly enough, is peculiar to the domesticated dog only, and 
may nave arisen in imitation of the gruffer tones of the human voice. 
The domestic dog run wild will in a few generations lose the power of 
barking. This happened on the island of Juan Fernandez; the dogs 
