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Grizzly bears, black bears, wolves, coyotes, cougars/ mountain lions,bobcats, wolverines, lynx, foxes, fishers and martens are the suite of carnivores that originally inhabited North America after the Pleistocene extinctions. This site invites research, commentary, point/counterpoint on that suite of native animals (predator and prey) that inhabited The Americas circa 1500-at the initial point of European exploration and subsequent colonization. Landscape ecology, journal accounts of explorers and frontiersmen, genetic evaluations of museum animals, peer reviewed 20th and 21st century research on various aspects of our "Wild America" as well as subjective commentary from expert and layman alike. All of the above being revealed and discussed with the underlying goal of one day seeing our Continent rewilded.....Where big enough swaths of open space exist with connective corridors to other large forest, meadow, mountain, valley, prairie, desert and chaparral wildlands.....Thereby enabling all of our historic fauna, including man, to live in a sustainable and healthy environment. - Blogger Rick

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Saturday, March 20, 2010

a new location of where wolves were first domesticated into dogs

Earlier this past year, Scientists revealed that the first dogs originated in East Asia. This weeks NY Times reveals that a 2nd team of Scientists now postulate that the Mid East was the first location where Wolves were first domesticated into Dogs. Regardless of the exact locale, our "best friend" evolved from wolves..................whose social society mirrors ours in its hierarchies, division of labor, cooperation amongst individuals, dual male/female  youngster rearing and loyalty to family unit.

 Many feel that the first proto-dogsthat evolved from wolves influenced humans to make a living through farming and not just through hunting.Creating fixed villages required security from invaders.  The barking of dogs provided us with an inexpensive and excellent early warning sentry which we could count on to warn us when "the bad guys" were sneaking up on us.

Perhaps dogs also furthered the idea of wealth and accumulation of possessions as a goal. Those of us with more dogsbeing seen as wealthier than our neighbor, and thus allowing us to barter for other type of material needs ...................Long live all the canids, may there many genes provide us with new and unforseen benefits overthe years ahead.

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