ian bunbury wrote 05/27/2003 06:02 PM idle wonderings #26265 - 05/27/2003 06:02 PM
ian bunbury Webboard User Reg: 12-20-2002 Posts: 48 Loc: Offline	this morning i was riding up the mountain in the gondola with the new pup . on the ground were this seasons bears grazing and i started to wonder , how close gentically are ursus and canus?
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Lisa Swanston wrote 05/28/2003 12:34 AM Re: idle wonderings [Re: ian bunbury ] #26266 - 05/28/2003 12:34 AM
Lisa Swanston Webboard User Reg: 08-03-2001 Posts: 1588 Loc: Offline	I don't know how close they are genetically, but I understand that they have a common ancestor, called "Miacis". From Miacis, Daphneaus, the ancestor of the modern bear, and Cynodictus, the ancestor of canids, evolved. Lisa & Lucy, CGC, Wilderness Airscent Western Oregon Search Dogs
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Don B. Ackerson wrote 05/28/2003 08:37 AM Re: idle wonderings [Re: ian bunbury ] #26267 - 05/28/2003 08:37 AM
Don B. Ackerson Webboard User Reg: 07-12-2002 Posts: 1080 Loc: Offline	In somewhere USA there is or was a strange virus stripping the black bear of its body hair. I thought looking at this half naked bear. That the facial features and top portion of his body looks just like a dog. Somewhere down the family tree there was a split, except for being larger they look a lot alike underneath all that hair. Makes you go hummmm. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />
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Mike Taylor wrote 05/28/2003 10:13 AM Re: idle wonderings [Re: ian bunbury ] #26268 - 05/28/2003 10:13 AM
Mike Taylor Webboard User Reg: 07-25-2001 Posts: 142 Loc: Offline	Much closer to pigs than dogs as I recall...the old timers used to call Black Bears "Hog Bears" and it is pretty easy to mistake one for another on a foggy early morning.
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Will Rambeau wrote 05/28/2003 11:12 AM Re: idle wonderings [Re: ian bunbury ] #26269 - 05/28/2003 11:12 AM
Will Rambeau Moderator Reg: 01-25-2003 Posts: 5983 Loc: Idaho Offline	The "split" between the canine genus and the ursa genus occurred at least 35 million years ago. They're not very closely related at all. The Fetz dog: http://www.leerburg.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/79673/page/25
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