Feral Dogs of India
Indian pariah dogs are typically medium-sized and have yellow to rust-colored coats. It was once thought that Indian feral dogs were the ancestral stock of Australian Dingo, but a 2004 Swedish study of mitochondrial DNA found that dingoes originated from southern China, not from India.
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