In this paper we compare some socio-ecological traits of feral dogs and wolves in order to assess the social ecology of feral dogs in terms of its adaptive value in the natural environment, and to evaluate to what extent the domestication process altered the wolf's socioecological patterns. Referring to feral dogs as those dogs living in a wild state with no food and shelter intentionally provi...

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Inequality in distribution of resources is a key aspect of evolutionary biology particularly in relation to distribution of mates and copulations. Notwithstanding its important role, inequality is not easily defined, and its measurement is complicated by theoretical and methodological issues. Although the formal treatment of inequality has been mostly limited to the evolution of lek mating syst...

A free Plain Language Summary can be found within the Supporting Information of this article. The importance carnivorous arthropods in shaping plant-herbivore interactions has been well investigated (Abdala-Roberts et al., 2019; Price 1980). By “carnivorous”, we mean habit feeding on other animals, which includes omnivores that feed both plants and animals as intraguild predators (Boitani & Pow...

•Generated 3.7✕ nuclear genome of the extinct Honshu wolf•The Honshū wolf belonged to lineage Siberian Pleistocene wolves•There was gene flow between wolves and Japanese dogs The or one most distinct gray subspecies due its small stature endemicity islands Honshū, Shikoku, Kyūshū. Long revered as a guardian farmers travellers, it persecuted from 17th century following rabies epidemic, which led...