A stray canine in Brazil has turned out to be a whole new breed of adorable.
) are closest in appearance to the rescued animal, although their fur is lighter in color. In spite of their names, neither is closely related to European foxes, being a little more closely related to dogs.Genetic evidence from the rescued creature suggests it is, in fact, a hybrid between a pampas fox and a domestic dog – an extremely rare occurrence of two species from different genera reproducing.
What's more, pampas foxes have 37 pairs of chromosomes, which could rearrange with a dog's genome to leave 38 pairs. The rescued canid also has two X chromosomes with two different morphologies, which indicates they came from two different species.
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