Dogxim, or Graxorra in Portuguese, was a female canid hybrid between a Pampas fox and a domesticated dog that was discovered in Brazil in 2021.

The canid showed a mixture of fox and dog behaviors, and a team of geneticists led by Thales Renato Ochotorena de Freitas and Rafael Kretschmer announced in 2023 that she was a distinct hybrid genetically that “represents the first documented case of hybridization between these two [fox and dog] species”.

She was popularized as the first “fox”-dog hybrid documented in the world, although the Pampas fox and other South American foxes are not true foxes, being instead closer genetically to wolf-like canids, which include dogs.

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  • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    I didn’t know this was possible. That’s crazy.

    Dogs have 78 chromosomes (39 haploid pairs), while the Pampas fox, 74 (37 haploid pairs). Additional evidence of hybridisation was the presence of two different X chromosome indicating their origins from two species.