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Furthermore, the theory that Sloughi and Saluki are the same is simply wrong. Xavier

Przezdziecki is fundamentally mistaken here. You can say a Sloughi is a dog, a sighthound,
a Saluki is a dog, a sighthound, that is correct. But a Sloughi is a Saluki or, conversely, a
Saluki is a Sloughi is wrong.

As Cuvier puts it in Erik Zimen's book, even if they look the same, the circumstances of
their emergence are different and thus they are two races (See also Wikipedia, Taxonomy
https://www.wikiwand.com/de/articles/Taxonomie).

So if we look in a parallel way to landraces, who look the same, the circumstances of their
emergence are different and thus they are two different ecological landraces with
different characteristics.

The already romanticised idea that the modern Sloughis came to the Maghreb with the
Arabs has been refuted once again. Let us recall Zimen again, according to whom a race is
a self-contained, sexually isolated group of individuals. Thus, zoologically, the Sloughi
must also be seen separately from the various types of Saluki. Indeed, one might even
have to speak of different Salukis. So if we look in a parallel way to landraces, who look
the same, the circumstances of their emergence are different and thus they are two
different ecological landraces with different characteristics, as the different origins had

self-contained characteristics, as described historically by Duggan or Burchard.

Breeding goals that take out a single aspect of the sighthound breed's range of
characteristics, such as improving speed, that change or fundamentally alter a basic type,
lead to other breeds that may need to be described in a new standard. The example of
Greyhounds for coursing, racing and show Greyhounds can serve as a model for this. A

Greyhound for the racetrack is a fundamentally different Greyhound from the classic
coursing Greyhound, which operates in the open field. It has been proven that these are
genetically different types.