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The Kintamani is a dog breed native to the Indonesian island of Bali. The Kintamani dog is an evolving breed indigenous to the Kintamani region of Bali. Kintamani dogs cohabitate with feral Bali street dogs, although folklore has the breed originating 600 years ago from a Chinese Chow Chow. The physical and personality characteristics of the Kintamani dog make it a popular pet for the Balinese, and efforts are currently under way to have the dog accepted by the Federation Cynologique Internationale as a recognized breed.

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The Bali street dog had the highest level of diversity of the populations sampled, exhibiting 59.2% (239 of 404) of the alleles observed in all populations and an average of 7.7 observed alleles per locus versus the 5.4 average for all AKC populations (Table 1). The Kintamani dog had the second highest total number of observed alleles (217), averaging 7.0 alleles per locus. Source : coeloek.blogspot.com -D