Wendy the Whippet has a genetic disorder that has resulted in an exceptionally muscular appearance. For comparison, this is what a normal whippet looks like. Story here, ht to Fark.com.
Photograph by Bruce Stotesbury, Times Colonist
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In training for Boston, I did a 1 hour erg cos the ladies were doing them, and sort of enjoyed it. And then we did Boston which was 50 km, but we weren''t really racing.
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man." -Mark Twain
tags: evolutionary biology, molecular biology,
Wendy sez:
"Me so...M'ARF!!!"
Geeze when I first saw that pic I thought someone pumped him with steroids (people do that for dog fights) and I was going to freak out.
Interesting that damage to both copies of the gene allows this result. They will have some intriguing results once they know the pathways.