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ARE YOU SERIOUS? Meet The Dog Breed That Can't Bark!
Aug 11, 2020
Wherever you go in the world, the language of dogs will probably follow a recognizable bark pattern namely, a single syllable that gets vocalized twice in quick successions, such as woof-woof or arf-arf.
However, every rule has an exception, and there's one exceptional dog breed that doesn't typically bark at all. Unimaginatively dubbed the "Barkless Dog", that canine anomaly is the Basenji, and according to the American Kennel Club, it actually yodels.
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You might assume that a yodeling dog would hail from somewhere like the Swiss Alps, but the Basenji's roots actually lie in Africa and those roots go far back in time. In fact, the Basenji could be the world's oldest dog breed, a theory consistent with Libyan cave paintings from 6,000 B.C. that appear to depict a Basenji-like canine. 
Experts believe the first domesticated dogs probably resembled the Basenji, too. Characterized by a short coat, tightly curled tail, wrinkled forehead, and almond-shaped eyes, these canines were given to Egyptian pharaohs as gifts, and they've also been depicted in ancient Mesopotamian art. 
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