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While some of these populations may have more phenotypic variety than would be found in standardized breeds, most breed true, and the Africanis may be such a dog.Visitors to South Africa may have dismissed the Africanis to be the stereotypical plain brown street dog seen around the world, but many others consider it to be the original dog of Africa, a distinct breed endemic to southern Africa with a lineage that goes back at least 7,000 years.