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11-10-2010, 03:34 PM | #1 |
Donating YT 4000 Club Member | Dogs Decoded I don't know if any of you had the chance to watch this on Nova. The episode was called "Dogs Decoded" and was a fantastic episode. They talk about research going on regarding the way people and dogs communicate with each other. There is also a fascinating segment on and experiment in Russia to domesticate foxes. One of the things that they didn't expect was that there are actual physical changes that occur in the more domesticated litters versus those in the wild (coloring changes, shortened and curly tails, etc). If you get a chance I highly recommend you watch it. Dogs Decoded | NOVA | PBS Video
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11-10-2010, 04:34 PM | #2 |
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| Thank you! I forget about Nova. It is the best program ever anyway. I'm going to watch from now on. I used to watch it years ago a lot.
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11-10-2010, 05:00 PM | #3 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker | Yes! I saw that last night. The other thing I found interesting, considering how close we have always thought fogs are to wolves, was that wolf cubs raised as dogs from infancy became more and more feral as they matured. |
11-10-2010, 06:45 PM | #4 |
LoveMy2 Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: East Tennessee
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| I also watched it. I found it *very* interesting. I was a little saddened by the foxes, cage after cage of foxes. When they made the comment that one day foxes could make wonderful pets. I had the horrible thought of people trapping foxes, breeding them, and selling them for pets. I thought it was so fascinating to see the developmental differences of wolf pups and dog pups raised in the same home with the same methods. |
11-10-2010, 07:26 PM | #5 |
Thor's Human Donating Member | Thanks for posting this link. It's fascinating! I really love the other related links too. I think the stuff about pointing is a little misleading, because pointing is part of a dog's built-in hunting sequence. Roughly speaking: scan, alert, stalk, chase, kill. That's why we can have "pointer" dogs. I think the more interesting part is, why can we point when chimps can't?
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