Jackals in the news...
Sep. 14th, 2004 04:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
summer_jackelHow cool is this?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1977094.stm
The upshot is, that the Russians have developed a breed of dog that is 1/4 jackal and the rest Laika husky, to use as superior bomb-sniffing dogs. I'm a little amazed that a jackal/husky would improve on the nose of a bloodhound or other specialized scenting dog, though. Jackals must have great sniffers! Add it to my file of jackal-trivia...
*Jackel pup sticks her nose in the air and sniffsniffsniffs proudly*
The dogs, alas, look pretty much exactly like laikas (the native Russian/Lapp husky, AKC Siberians popularly known and shown in America being exactly that...American)...which isn't a problem, because I like laikas, but still. I'd love to meet one up close. *want a jackal hybrid*!!! I suppose my three wolf hybrids are enough, though.
Thank you, Mooncat, for the link. eee! Jackals! Yip!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1977094.stm
The upshot is, that the Russians have developed a breed of dog that is 1/4 jackal and the rest Laika husky, to use as superior bomb-sniffing dogs. I'm a little amazed that a jackal/husky would improve on the nose of a bloodhound or other specialized scenting dog, though. Jackals must have great sniffers! Add it to my file of jackal-trivia...
*Jackel pup sticks her nose in the air and sniffsniffsniffs proudly*
The dogs, alas, look pretty much exactly like laikas (the native Russian/Lapp husky, AKC Siberians popularly known and shown in America being exactly that...American)...which isn't a problem, because I like laikas, but still. I'd love to meet one up close. *want a jackal hybrid*!!! I suppose my three wolf hybrids are enough, though.
Thank you, Mooncat, for the link. eee! Jackals! Yip!
