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Domesticated foxes
I'd read about this before, but never thought to look them up on Youtube. Basically, a Russian researcher deliberately bred silver foxes for tameness (so they would be easier to harvest for fur). What he discovered, unexpectedly, is that as the foxes grew more tame, they also started to exhibit a whole bunch of dog characteristics along with the tameness -- floppy ears, spotted coats, barking, wagging, and generally acting like dogs.
And the video of them ... my first reaction was OH GOD FREAKY, because they have fox bodies and fox tails, but they move just like dogs, with the wagging and bouncing. And my second reaction was SO CUTE! WANT!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enrLSfxTqZ0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzTcmE-pMLU
(ETA: Apparently they do sell them as pets. Now I really want one!)
And the video of them ... my first reaction was OH GOD FREAKY, because they have fox bodies and fox tails, but they move just like dogs, with the wagging and bouncing. And my second reaction was SO CUTE! WANT!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enrLSfxTqZ0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzTcmE-pMLU
(ETA: Apparently they do sell them as pets. Now I really want one!)
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I can fully see why you want one - they are sooo cute - very energetic too by the looks of them! (Too energetic for me!)
Me, I'd like a tame wolf...but that's not very likely!! (I was always a bit jealous of that mountie chap in Due South. Hmmm, now I'm wondering how he and Rodney would get on... LOL!!)
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When I first heard about it, I found it -- and still find it -- one of the most fascinating things I've ever heard, in its implications for the genetic plasticity of canines. If foxes can be essentially turned into dogs in only 40 years, then humans have probably domesticated dogs from a variety of wild canines dozens or hundreds of times. And that's just incredibly fascinating to me. I wonder if anyone's ever done a study of the dog genome to see if there's any support for different lineages.
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They sure did - I mean there are many papers on dogs origins, and I think the genome is fully sequenced by now.
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=16219789
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http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/22/12/2541
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http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=15299143
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pretending you're Sheppard and tell me what you got? I need a cross-reference.
(I mean pretending you're Sheppard who's bored and takes the test to amuse himself, not Sheppard talking to Heightmeyer from your story) :)
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Your Type is
ISFP
Introverted 44%
Sensing 62%
Feeling 12%
Perceiving 78%
ISFP descriptions here (http://typelogic.com/isfp.html) and here (http://keirsey.com/handler.aspx?s=keirsey&f=fourtemps&tab=4&c=composer) on the site. Seems to hit on some things, miss on others, at least as I see the character.
What results did you get?
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I like descriptions on this site (all types are on the top of the page) better than on the test site.
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I know people who are very inwardly directed and know nothing about their own motivations at all (at least, nothing accurate -- an introvert can spend all the time in the world analyzing themselves, but if they're basing it on flawed assumptions -- e.g. "the world is out to get me" they're not going to obtain good conclusions).
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I spoke from my personal perspective, for I am an introvert. I didn't mean that introvert would know everything about his motives and such, I meant the 'direction of a stare', if I may put it this way. "How those outside affairs affect my inner core?" - that's an introvert thing to ask. Extroverts on the other hand are *not interested* in their 'inside processes'. They don't give a rat's ass about them.
"Extraverted Sensors are at one with objects and experiences now, in the only living, pulsing moment that ever really exists. The Sensor is compelled to see, touch, taste, smell and feel all that moves, wafts, tingles, tinkles, scintillates, vibrates or resonates. "
"Introverted, and auxiliary to Sensing, the T(hinking) function maintains a low profile, keeps its opinions mainly to itself, and readily yields to allow Sensing to savor a special moment."
"Though only a minor character, Feeling plays an important role in a favorite pastime of ESTPs. This is not to say that ESTPs don't care deeply for others, yet Feeling is such a ready hand-puppet, expedient in disarming the "victim" and exposing the jugular. Sincere Feeling is tertiary and thus relatively simplistic in this type. As such, it can be the undoing of ESTPs at the hands of those they (perhaps unconsciously) come to trust."
"ESTPs reserve a certain "gut" sense of timing and luck."
- I think it's definitely him. But he is my least favorite character of all times, so I'm prejudiced. :D
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Your Type is
ISTP
Introverted 44%
Sensing 62%
Thinking 1%
Perceiving 78%
The descriptors for that one, here (http://keirsey.com/handler.aspx?s=keirsey&f=fourtemps&tab=4&c=crafter) and here (http://typelogic.com/istp.html), sound a lot more like him.
(Oh, for pete's sake! Edited to fix HTML *again*.)
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Shortly after Daniel was born, he, hubby and I lived in an apartment, and the lady below us had a wolf. I'm talking the real deal here. He would let me pet him, but I had to be careful taking the baby past him, and people from other buildings had to be especially cautious if the wolf was outside. Gorgeous thing, but still with a streak of wildness. She was finally evicted because she refused to get rid of him and he posed a very real threat. Huge thing, too, larger than a husky. Absolutely beautiful.
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