@tanza:
Well, I guess that is mostly true about selective breeding. But look at some of the pictures of the early imports (like in the years of the american Basenji books) There were tight curls and loose curls… and some go along bloodlines. Conformation can play a big part in the tail as to were it is set.
The sire of Kristii, who had no new Af blood had a one loop tail....
Right, and one of Dr. Jo's Bs has a really curly tail (current af import). So, yes there are some that have very curly tails in the wild; otherwise we wouldn't have those genes to be be able to pull from.
But, in general, Afs have a looser tail curl…wouldn't you say?
I used to think that tail curl was directly related to length of tail. As in Bs with looong tails, had more curl to them, than short tails...but, uh....Ariel has a loooonnng tail, and not too curly But she does wag it more than about ten domestic basenjis put together