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Now we have also seen with Zimen that a dog breed, which is to be addressed as an

ecological landrace, is a sexually isolated group of individuals. Przezdziecki's approach is
completely different, he differentiates exclusively according to the type and structure of
the coat, as well as the general use, which is zoologically untenable! He basically negates
this distinction as well.

Jutta Rübesam, above, tells us that the smooth Salukis of the traditional Arabian breed are
characterised by less speed and greater endurance, whereas the modern Salukis are

faster but lack endurance.

The biological concept of species recognises various definitions of species, such as the
ecological species, in which morphologically identical or similar species are addressed
as different species if they occur geographically separated. (https://

www.wikiwand.com/de/articles/Taxonomie, 12/11/2024)

This can and must be perceived as such in historical breeds or ecological landraces, but in
modern breeds, which are bred to a standard, the geographical characteristics are
omitted. The geographical characteristics mean nothing when breeding to a standard.
However, the lack of geographical distance is replaced by eugenics (familial selection),
which, for better or worse, creates a genetically isolated situation in line breeding.

A derivation of a sighthound breed from Egyptian types, Xavier Przezdziecki mentions
here Tesem and Sloughi (whatever he may understand by this), is inadmissible for the
reasons mentioned above. It is only through breeding according to the standard that a
corresponding artificial categorisation according to a breed or type has been established
(see also Sloughi Review 13). As in the example above with the Afghan hound, one takes a

numerically small part of an entire population and declares it to be the only true one!

Historically, dog breeds are types that have fulfilled certain tasks in certain areas. These
conditions shaped the landraces, as was the case with the Rottweiler, for example.
Although these landraces are stable in their use over long periods of time, it is not certain
whether their phenotype was always the same.