#leptocyon

Who's your new favourite tiny squirrel sized good boi and why is it Leptocyon delicatus

Oh, it’s such an interesting theme! I have been reading a little about it myself, but I can’t say I know a lot about the matter. 

Here are some links that might help:

http://www.shawlein.com/category/evolution/

Not a lot of information on the leptocyon, but a kind of a historic timeline of different species that eventually evolved into the today’s wolves/dogs. 

http://webot.org/?search=Leptocyon

Includes map of Leptocyon fossil foundings in US. 

http://discovermagazine.com/1994/oct/ascentofthedog434#.UvIPA_l5N3E

"Their loss was Lassie’s gain. Waiting in the wings was that other stem-dog offshoot, Leptocyon, and it’s this line that led to our modern canines. Unlike the latter-day borophagines, Leptocyon was a slender, narrow-snouted carnivore. Its teeth had no special bone-crushing adaptations. Leptocyon made use of two small cusps at the back of its lower carnassials for crushing plant matter, allowing it (like Hesperocyon) to eat berries and fruits as well as rodents and rabbits. All members of the modern dog family have retained this useful diet-diversifying feature. “It’s a great adaptation,” says Tedford. “Think of foxes—they have a very mixed diet, and that’s one reason they’re great survivors. They can raid your garbage can, and they’ll eat berries and fruits and plants and insects and whatever they can get.” That unpicky diet was to be a key to canine evolutionary success."

Did I really wrote ‘thought’. Oh god.

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