ANBI 360.3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Working Animal, List Of Domesticated Animals, Vikings
20 Jun 2018
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LECTURE 11
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Canadian First Nations dogs!
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General comments!
the dog was the only domesticated animal in pre-contract Canada!•
how many dog breeds/types-- there are lumper and splitter taxonomists!•
e.g. lumper might say- the eskimo dog is one type of the larger breed complex and serves ◦
as a draught animal in Canada north!
ignoring the different landscapes, uses and cultural environment to which this dog is ‣
adapted!
variety of dogs don't look all the same!•
where do you draw the line that one species ends and the other starts!•
species: group of animals that does not interbreed with another!•
can be behavioural, seasonal or geographical. ect.!◦
all dogs could inter breed!•
size could stop this naturally (chihuahua and saint Bernard)!◦
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First Nations dogs!
more docile eyes of wolves would try to get the food!•
people expanded out of Africa!•
huge migrations!◦
dogs came with people when they migrated!•
ocean voyages where not the best way to move dogs around... dogs crowed the ships so did •
not bring them!
land base migration is a different story!•
migration from Europe from a land bridge is another way dogs might of got to different places!•
vikings also could of brought them!•
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The writer record!
three broad types/ groups: G. Allen!•
large, broad muzzled eskimo dog with dense coat and tail curled over hip!◦
larger indian dogs!◦
smaller indian dogs!◦
17 breeds of dogs in north and south america aboriginals!•
compared to 17 breeds of first nations dogs in the americas at the time of columbus and •
there after!
the "book of st. albans" described 14 breeds for Europe!◦
7 of 17 were found in canada!•
some categorized as wolf dogs!◦
first nations might of domesticated the coyote!◦
"pair wolf" was a coyote!•
if this domestication of coyote and foxes happened it is not around today that we can find!•
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Dogs pre and post contact!
- european breeds in the north american breeds began to change the original breeds!
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Canadian breeds!
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breed differentiation: consider / contrast speciation!•
