Dogxim
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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 behaviours, 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".
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- Identification
- Genetics
- Death
- See also
- References
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 behaviours, 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. However, the Pampas fox and other South American foxes are not true foxes; instead, they are closer genetically to wolf-like canids, which include dogs.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dogxim” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.