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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2023 7:32:19 GMT
I’ve heard about them before, and watched videos of them but I have no idea how they are as a breed. Im an avid Terrier hunter currently, and I also love primitive breeds. Is the breed good at hunting? Are they gritty or what not? So far and so forth. I hear from a study that they are descended from a different wolf, or I may just be misreading the study.
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Post by Hardcastle on Feb 11, 2023 9:53:00 GMT
Scientists were speculating that it's POSSIBLE they come from a different wolf, but more likely an earlier wave of domestic dog migration than other dogs. It's true they are genetically distinct from other dogs. Vast majority of dogs and dingoes all descend from the same small population of domestic dogs in east asia from about 15 000 years ago when then went on to spread west into the europe and africa, and also across to the americas and later down into Australasia. The basenji doesn't descend from this origin. It seems to be from a wave of domestic dogs that went to africa and europe from asia thousands of years earlier than the wave responsible for most dogs. They did entertain the possibility of it descending from a "different wolf", but it's considered the less likely option. There were "basenji relatives" throughout europe 15 000 years ago (figured out from bones that have been found), but they all got displaced by the newer wave. The basenji it seems managed to remain isolated in the congo and wasn't displaced, and as far as I'm aware is the only living descendant of the original dog wave out of asia.
I'd like to see a strong investigation into the old mediterranean sighthounds like the ibizan and cirneco Dell Etna. I think if anything may hold relic DNA from the first wave it may be them. The ibizan just looks related to the basenji to me, but could be coincidence.
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