Calupoh
 Movement of a Calupoh | |||||||||||||||||||
| Other names | Mexican Wolfdog Perro lobo mexicano Mexican Black Wolfdog | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Origin | Mexico | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Notes | Recognized by the Federación Canófila Mexicana (FCM) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris) | |||||||||||||||||||
Calupoh or Mexican wolfdog (Spanish: Perro lobo mexicano) is a hybrid canine breed native to Mexico.[1][2]
This hybrid breed has been developed since the 1990s from a genetic project that involved the breeding between dogs and wolves, with the aim of carrying out a cultural rescue. Since the Wolfdog was part of the regional culture for a long time.[1]
History[1]
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The official breed standard cites the following historical summary:[1]
“The wolfdogs of Mexico emerges as a hybridity between the dog and the gray wolf that took place in pre-Hispanic Mexico from the beginning of our era until the sixteenth century. This practice was possible due to the enormous genetic similarity between both species and, thanks to an intense archeozoological work, it was possible to identify the first specimen in 1999.
The reason for this to happen was not only that the old dogs and wolves shared a territory and the breeding were casual. The remains found in such special places as the Temple of Quetzalcoatl as ornaments of the elite, in the Pyramid of the Moon as an offering and in the Templo Mayor in Mexico-Tenochtitlan associated with sacrifices, suggest that they were animals with a meaning very high spiritual.
The wolf was symbolically associated with sacrifices in which blood flowed in large numbers, the militia and the nocturnal space due to its condition as a powerful predator, with great capacity for confrontation, a social animal that works as a team and an entity for nightlife. The dog, on the other hand, was considered an animal of high fecundity, whose reproductive cycle overlapped with that of the rain and with that of the agricultural cycle, aspects that were worth their religious association with water, agriculture, fertility and good fortune. A hybrid of wolf and dog would then be a manageable specimen that possessed the sum of the symbolic values of its parents and, therefore, would be used in rites where its dual condition turns out to be fundamental, for example, those dedicated to economic activities more important: agriculture and war.
The formal return to the genetic project that was once part of our daily life was extremely important, because without it, the canine pool that represents the history of the continent would not be complete. In a genetic work that has been carried out since the mid-90s, we gladly present Calupoh Mexican Wolfdog, which completes the original proposal of the cynophilia practiced by the Americans for more than 2000 years.”
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 FCM. "Calupoh estándar" (PDF). www.fcm.mx (in español). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-05-01. Retrieved 2018-09-30.
- ↑ Auclip. "El Perro "Calupoh" La Nueva Raza Mexicana Perro Lobo". Hot video clips, watch video clips free online (in español). Retrieved 2018-10-01.
External links
- FCM - Federación Canófila Mexicana (FCM) Archived 2018-10-01 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
- Calupoh, Perro lobo de México (in Spanish)
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