The New Guinea Highland Wild Dog Foundation say this is a particularly fascinating pooch as the species could be a relic of the canid family (which includes domestic dogs, wolves, foxes, and jackals) from a time before human agriculture and domestication, therefore free from the selective breeding pressures of humans

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