Meet the family: Canidae

One of the first comments I typically hear when I show someone a photo of an Ethiopian Wolf is that “it looks like the offspring of a coyote and a red fox.” I thought it might help to show how they are all related. Recent DNA analysis has shown the Ethiopian Wolf to be far more closely related to the Grey wolf and more distant from the Jackal which share their genus.

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