Wolf populations in Scandinavia may die out because they are mating with
dogs. DNA analysis showed the father of a wolf puppy hit by a car in Sweden was
a dog, scientists at Uppsala University said this week. Wolves breed with dogs
when there are too few wolves around, and more cross-breeding could mean the end
of the species in Sweden.
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