alt Hacker NewsFor those who didn't know, to save you the search I just performed: the African Wild Dog is not literally a wild dog. It's not even a Canid, it's a separate genus (Lycaon) from dogs, wolves & coyotes.
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jjtheblunt • today at 7:19 PM
i think the wolves/dogs/coyotes and african wild dogs all have 78 chromosomes, but it's unclear if the african painted dogs have been diverged so long as to have incompatible chromosome gene layouts despite matching chromosome counts.
i tried looking for any examples of hybrids but did not find any. they'd be pretty ridiculously cute though for sure.
supposedly hybrids of african painted dogs and domestic dogs happens, albeit rarely, in South Africa
https://mykingsgate.co.za/info/african-wild-dog-hybrid-12023...
That genus is part of the Canidae family though. Dogs and wolves are in the Canis genus in the Canidae group.
Jackals and foxes are also each their own genus, and there are a number more genuses.