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Originally Posted by YorkieMother  Well actually I am right unless what I have read is a miss print but Dogs and wolves are 99% a like in DNA and Humans and gorillas are 99.4% so doing the math that makes us a whole.4% closer.
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As for if we can or can not breed with a gorilla to my current knowledge reseach sciencists do to ethical rules can not and may I make it clear should not try. But it is unclear if it is not possible it is only speculation do to ethical and moral restraint and the yuck factor that there is not going to be an attempted.
Gorllias that are in the wild and are part of reseach and even the ones we can visit are no longer allowed to be touched or get to close to as we as humans can pass on our deadly illnesses and that is as we are so genetically close. So there for we do not know in actually fact that gorillas and humans as you stated can not procreate only that we have a moral and ethical resposibility not to even go there. What would we do with the offspring? that is why it not ok to try that cringe when you read it.
As for the crossing of wolves and dogs that would make the blend more wolf and wild than dommestic and therefore not trust worthy.
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I'm sorry. First off you have alot of misinformation. Dogs and gray wolves share 99.8% of their mtDNA (mitochondrial DNA), suggesting an intact maternal lineage from gray wolves directly to dogs. They are the same species with some simple phenotypic differences that amazingly start returning to more wolf-like characteristics with very few generations of
outcrossing/mixing of breeds.
We don’t, in fact share 98.6% of our DNA with chimps; we share about 96% or less. We do share 98.6% of our nucleotide sequence. There is a BIG difference. Humans have 23 pair of chromosomes, chimps(and other apes) have 24 pair of chromosomes - off spring would not be viable. No how, no way.
here are some links if you'd like to check my facts;
Chimps, Humans 96 Percent the Same, Gene Study Finds Humans, Chimps Not as Closely Related as Thought? genome.gov | 2005 Release: New Genome Comparison Finds Chimps, Humans Very Similar at DNA Level WikiAnswers - Is human DNA and chimpanzee DNA 98 percent identical
Furthermore, I just want to say that this irks me a bit. While I myself have been researching some alternative training methods, someone posted this thread as she had success and asked the trainers to come on here and share with us all. I just think it's a bit rude to attack them. I don't think they are abusing any of these animals and if you have a better training method, I think we'd all like to hear all about it but I just think it's a bit rude to take over someone else's thread.
Sorry, maybe I'm just cranky tonight.....