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====Coydogs==== [[File:The Clever Coyote (1951) Coydogs.jpg|thumb|upright|Coydogs in [[Wyoming]], 1951]] {{main article|Coydog}} Hybrids between coyotes and domestic dogs have been bred in captivity, dating to pre-Columbian Mexico.<ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=http://www.colegionacional.org.mx/SACSCMS/XStatic/colegionacional/docs/espanol/lmza/lmza_icaz_2002.pdf |chapter=13. Dog-wolf Hybrid Biotype Reconstruction from the Archaeological City of Teotihuacan in Prehispanic Central Mexico |author1=Valadez, Raúl |author2=Rodríguez, Bernardo |author3=Manzanilla, Linda |author-link3=Linda Manzanilla |author4=Tejeda, Samuel |title=9th ICAZ Conference, Durham 2002: Dogs and People in Social, Working, Economic, or Symbolic Interaction |editor1=Snyder, Lynn M. |editor2=Moore, Elizabeth A. |pages=120–130 |access-date=December 12, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923205356/http://www.colegionacional.org.mx/SACSCMS/XStatic/colegionacional/docs/espanol/lmza/lmza_icaz_2002.pdf |archive-date=September 23, 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Other specimens were later produced by mammal biologists mostly for research purposes. Domestic dogs are included in the gray wolf species.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://animaldiversity.org/site/accounts/information/Canis_lupus_familiaris.html |title=ADW: ''Canis lupus familiaris'': Information |website=Animal Diversity Web |access-date=April 1, 2016}}</ref> Hence, coydogs are another biological sub-variation of hybrids between coyotes and gray wolves – the dog being considered a domesticated subspecies of ''Canis lupus''.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Anderson |first1=T.M. |last2=Vonholdt |first2=B.M. |last3=Candille |first3=S.I. |last4=Musiani |first4=M. |last5=Greco |first5=C. |last6=Stahler |first6=D.R. |last7=Smith |first7=D.W. |last8=Padhukasahasram |first8=B. |last9=Randi |first9=E. |last10=Leonard |first10=J.A. |last11=Bustamante |first11=C.D. |last12=Ostrander |first12=E.A. |last13=Tang |first13=H. |last14=Wayne |first14=R.K. |last15=Barsh |first15=G.S. |display-authors=6 |title=Molecular and evolutionary history of melanism in North American gray wolves |journal=Science |volume=323 |issue=5919 |pages=1339–1343 |year=2009 |doi=10.1126/science.1165448 |pmid=19197024 |pmc=2903542 |bibcode=2009Sci...323.1339A }}</ref>
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