Like other placental mammals we humans lost our yolk somewhere along the line but our eggs still come with a vestigial yolk sac.
Evolution would require a split resulting in an additional species like the supposed relationship between chimps and humans.
Chimps are still chimps but a long time ago one chimp broke off and became a new species (well that's the creed anyway).
Further more if reproduction had anything to do with it then more rapidly reproducing species like rabbits should have outpaces us long ago
Some species such as beavers we know for a fact have not changed for millions of years.
Dogs are a great example. I don't know of any other type of animal that can have such a diverse set of traits within the same species. The record low for a full grown chihuahua is 7 ounces (just over half a pound.
It's not unusual for a mastiff to get into the 200 pound range. Meaning the mastiff weighs more than 350 times as much as the chihuahua.
To relate this to chickens it would be like having an 8 pound fryer and 1. 4 ton roaster) Still if you have a very large stool
(or very deep ditch) the two dogs could interbreed even though they have been separated geologically for a long time and have been bred to be distinct.
I'm not saying that evolution doesn't happen. I find the theory very dubious
Just watched a cool show on netflix about big cats. turns out lions and tigers two obviously distinct species on the outside are incredibly similar on the inside.
In fact close enough to still breed with each other. Evolution doesn't tell us that a new species is born in a generation it's gradual.
still have the genetic traits of the sabertooth and have seen in their evolution rise of the resurgent sabertooth.
That one in particular will always be studied for exploitation. You'd think that if we created an environment that was designed to change growing in difficulty over like ten generations from adaptation to the new demands then demand more...
Going from lion or tiger stock would be faster-maybe. Inherent will to adapt vs dominance and satisfaction.
Gotta take their satisfaction away by convincing them there's something the cat needs to do but a lion for instance if male it only gets off it's butt
if it thinks it needs to eat fight mate. or crap. It's happy making the females hunt
and kill but it leads to a relatively small male population which kills diversity by keeping a small number of traits active in the whole collective to be passed on.
and they'll likely diverge like chimps humans orangutans gorillas did millions of years ago.
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I just wish possums would get a little wiser when it comes to crossing the road too.
So did god create humans 99%monkey? I prefer not to believe in a lazy god like that.@
If you're 99%identical to a monkey how closely related do you think you are to his feces?
and seeds before 400 million years ago amphibians before 360 million years ago reptiles before 300 million years ago mammals before 200 million years ago
Modern man is a leap in the natural evolution of primates and has not been explain yet.
It seems ancient primate man was downgraded from living with the natural environment and upgraded to communicate better
A sperm whale has a brain 6x bigger than humans. Why did modern man loose its fur?
The Sumerian culture explains why humans were made clearly in their historymodern man is a leap in the natural evolution of primates
The remainder of my thought was addressing Macro. democedes Yes a sperm whale does have a larger brain size.
but we make this opinion in our environment and not the sperm whales environment. The primates continue all over the world in HOT environment with their fur still ON.
Besides the appendix the gall blander is another expendable organ. You comment to mine is just opinionating.
The god overloads taught farming for modern man hence the need for these organs were not necessary plus just something else to fail in the primate body.
Neanderthal man remembered similar to the sperm whale with the larger brain. The leap of modern man has not been explained in evolution.
The primates continue all over the world in HOT environment with their fur still ON. I did not say all animals must lose their fur in hot environments.
Some mammals have evolved similarly to humans (mostly hairless) without alien intervention. So where is the actual physical evidence supporting the Ancient Aliens hypothesis. All of the arguments you have presented thus far are inconclusive
My theory is that along our primate evolutional lines of Neanderthal man an outside influence from a cosmic body came to Earth
#NYC Wants To Sterilize Its Subway Ratsthe rats of NYC subways are resilient. The city is an especially well-suited home for the critters
but there are a lot of rats down there and this could potentially slow the population in a more humane way.
When a female rat ingests some it'll target the ovarian follicles permanently sterilizing it.
Along with those more traditional techniques Metro Transit Authority officials are hoping this puts a dent in the rodent population.
Still it sounds like it takes a lot of the compound developed by a company called Senestech to effectively sterilize the rats:
First off to become sterilized the rats are going to have to eat this rodenticide. The main issue the mta is currently having with rats is that the general public is so filthy
and throws food and drinks on the tracks. Also the current situation of sanitation on the platform is still very poor.
The rodents will always eat people's hot dog buns and chips and pretzels before they eat a waxy rodenticide.
The second problem is this will just work on the female rats. I think the city needs to look deeper into other preventive ways of avoiding a rise in the rat population in NYC.
I am skeptical but curious about this new idea. I would like to see the long term outcome.@
It can make a rat sterile and we use rats to test out drugs we are starting to develop for human use...
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If you sterilize the female rats the males ones can't get them pregnant. That's how sexual reproduction works.
If there is a lot of food around any method that only kills most of the rats will have no effect at all.
And if there are no rats what happens to the food? Mice eat it? Insects s
#How To Build A 2, 073-Foot Skyscraperwhen it opens in 2014 the Shanghai Tower won't just be the world's second-tallest building.
I suppose a civilian drone with an attach laser pointer pointing into the cockpit of a plane would be bad too.@
@mayan Laser pointers are almost completely harmless and aiming one well enough to temporarily blind one of the pilots
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#When Did Primates Learn To Metabolize Alcohol? A Chemist Reenacts Drunk Historyhumans have been fermenting alcoholic beverages
Our ability to digest alcohol might have sprung from a primate ancestor that ate fermenting fruits a new theory suggests.
Other primates have ADH4 enzymes but not all can metabolize ethanol. To analyze how ethanol digestion changed over time Steven Benner a chemist at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution built enzymes in the lab that estimated how extinct primates metabolized alcohol.
Benner and his colleagues looked at the DNA stretches responsible for ADH4 in 27 modern primates Using lemurs monkeys apes
and humans they mapped the DNA sequences on an evolutionary family tree for primates going back 60 million years estimating what genes could have looked like for extinct primate ancestors.
Then they resurrected these ancient ADH4 proteins in the lab. They found that for most of our ancient ancestors ADH4S were inactive against ethanol
Ten million years ago though a common ancestor of gorillas chimps and humans emerged with an enzyme that could digest alcohol 50 times more efficiently than earlier incarnations.
Species like orangutans which primarily live in trees didn't evolve to metabolize ethanol perhaps because they wouldn't have run into fermented fruit living aboveground.
whether or not the last common ancestor of humans chimps and gorillas actually spent time on the ground or lived entirely in trees.
Science News Primates did not learn to metabolise ethanol. The ability was a result of the evolutionary natural selection process.
and pretend that AI doesn't exist clearly haven't ever used a smart phone
and any of you who don't believe that fully modeling the human brain will be necessary to bring true AI to fruition are deluding yourselves (the brain is incredibly efficient).
and the mouse to map out individual neuron interactions. However the longer term vision encompassed by the proposal is both fanciful and actually quite frightening.
and continue to kill endangered and protected whales. The Pelly Amendment to the Fisherman's Protective Act was enacted in 1971 to conserve Atlantic salmon.
And in a recent interview the Icelander responsible for destroying hundreds of endangered fin whales has announced he will literally use whale oil to fuel the ships for killing more endangered whales (also to export mass produced canned whale meat to Japan.
and promoted conservation of whales for decades--including playing an influential role in the establishment of a moratorium on commercial whaling
Maybe you could also explain what happened to the large Woolly mammoth population that existed in North america thousands of years ago.
Comparable in size to the asteroid that destroyed 1000 square miles of trees and reindeer in Tunguska Siberia in 1908 2012 DA14 would be very bad news in a direct collision with a populated area.
Would a Pet Detective company be able to use a microdrone to search for a lost dog who could be traveling in a large area
According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature researchers don't know enough about 15 percent of mammals to even determine
He was inspired after a colleague monitoring rare tapirs in Malaysia was bitten by a terrestrial leech (a common annoyance in tropical rainforests)
Twenty-one leeches contained DNA from mammals two of which were extremely rare. Although there was no evidence of the saola Gilbert did find DNA from the Annamite striped rabbit.
The striped meat-eating Tasmanian tiger was a marsupial the size of a large dog. Though experts largely agree the last one died in a zoo in 1936 some people hold out hope.
This heavily hunted ungulate may be extinct but up to 50 might survive on the western tip of Java.
and Laos. Despite its name this primate weighs only five pounds. Researchers suspect that some 100 to 160 live in disappearing bamboo forests in Madagascar.
You can say elephants walking amplifies an earthquake but by how much???The fact is that we are in a natural warming cycle...
#Can I Have A Pet Fox? Do a Youtube search for pretty much any smallish animal you can think of
Any feline any canid any mustelid (weasel) any procyonid (raccoon) any non-bonkers primate (baboons which are completely terrifying are exempt.
Look at my pet kinkajou my pet genet my pet fennec fox my pet ocelot. And then on the videos of cute furry animals in the wild you'll see the comments:
When the internet sees a video of a red panda the internet wants a red panda. Even though a red panda is endangered and a wild animal.
In 1959 a Soviet geneticist named Dmitry K. Belyaev began somewhat secretively experimenting with breeding domesticated foxes.
More than five decades thousands of foxes and one collapse of the Soviet union later the program continues at The Institute of Cytology and Genetics at Novosibirsk Siberia.
Belyaev wanted to unlock the secrets of domestication the links between behavior and breeding and physical traits but plenty of non-scientists are aware of the project for a different reason:
foxes are adorable and we want to hug them and we want them to like it.
But domesticated foxes which can only be found at that Siberian facility are not horrible pets.
but if you want a pet fox you can have a pet fox. All you need is $8000 and the approval of Kay Fedewa the exclusive importer of domesticated foxes in the US.
Domestication is not like taming. You can tame many wild animals so they won't try to kill you by raising them from birth but that's just learned behavior;
The Institute picked foxes on which to experiment for a few reasons. They're canids like dogs
so it would be easy to compare them to a domesticated species but they're not particularly closely related to dogs so there's enough separation to see how forced domestication affects a new species. Also these foxes were already tame--they were picked up from fur farms in Siberia
so they had a jumpstart in adjusting to humans. But theoretically you could domesticate just about any wild animal:
mink have been domesticated in Denmark and some have proposed domestication of certain rare but cuddly animals like red pandas as a means to save the species. The Soviet
(and later Russian) study out there in Siberia did breed eventually a domesticated silver fox (read: a red fox with silver fur) that's pretty close to our dream fox.
It loves and craves attention from people it'll lick your face it'll cuddle with you it'll wag its giant puffy tail
when it sees you it'll play with toys in your house while you try to take the perfect Instagram picture of it.
Wild foxes will not do this; they will either run away from you or attempt to bite your face off.
Tame foxes may not flee or attack but they also won't cuddle. These domesticated foxes on the other hand have between 30 and 35 generations of selective breeding behind them with careful monitoring to ensure a lack of inbreeding
and they're not even close to wild--in fact they probably wouldn't survive in the wild.
The animals developed different coat patterns floppier ears tails that curled over their backs--totally unknown in wild foxes.
When we tried to breed a fox that would act more like a dog we ended up with a fox that looked more like a dog.
But they're not as easy to acquire as a dog. For a brief time a company called Sibfox was selling foxes bred at the Siberian lab. They were selling for about $6000
but it's not clear that anyone ever actually received one of these foxes. The Daily reported that two foxes that actually shipped to the States ended up confiscated at the US border
and shipped to the Austin Zoo and Animal Sanctuary where they are doing wonderfully. Apparently these foxes were kept in dog kennels
which is improper and weren't fed or watered properly--by all accounts the Sibfox people were licensed not
and were inexperienced at importing exotic animals. The only upside is that the animals survived the journey from Russia.
Until now Sibfox was the closest anyone in the US had gotten to receiving a domesticated fox.
Then there are breeders like Tiny Tracks Exotic Animals located outside of Fort wayne Indiana specializing in several varieties of fox (red fox gray fox and arctic fox) as well as supposedly tame raccoons skunks and coatis
(a Central/South american mammal closely related to the raccoon. Want a pet arctic fox? That'll run you $600.
Red foxes are a little cheaper at $400. That's cheaper than a skunk ($450) and waaaay cheaper than something more exotic like a kinkajou which runs anywhere from $1200 to $3000.
For comparison a purebred Siberian husky can run you anywhere from $400 to $2000 depending on its breeding and the reputation of the breeder.
But none of these foxes the ones that cost a few hundred dollars are domesticated. They are wild foxes.
Wild foxes are not pets; they are wild animals. The word tame means essentially nothing here--it mostly means nice
when it's a baby. The foxes from Siberia are pets. Foxes from Indiana? Wild.
(Tiny Tracks repeatedly did not respond to requests for comment; Kay Fedewa described the people who run it as not very nice people really quite rude even to the people they're selling animals to.
Indiana is something of a promised land for exotic pet farms and owners a libertarian wonderland where for a mere ten-dollar processing fee you can have a pet grizzly bear.
Neighboring Kentucky hardly a state you'd think would be prude about wild animals is a fairly typical example of state laws:
anything inherently dangerous which includes venomous animals (snakes lizards) huge animals (hippos elephants) and animals that would prefer to murder you than let you pat them on the head (big cats bears baboons) are outlawed all.
But so is any animal that has lived never naturally in Kentucky mostly to avoid issues with invasive species. Most states simply ban any normally wild animal from being kept as a pet.
But not Indiana! Indiana has three classes of wild animals. Class 1 is mostly squirrels.
Class 2 includes foxes beavers skunks raccoons coyotes and weasels. Class 3 includes venomous reptiles and all species of bear big cat and wolf.
All three classes are legal! In fact the only thing that separates Class 3 animals which are banned pretty much everywhere else is that a letter is sent to the hopeful leopard-owner's neighbors.
If 25 or more neighbors respond with a letter saying they are interested not in having a leopard on the block the leopard is allowed not.
Otherwise no problem sir. What's your leopard's name? Even more insane is that Indiana provides no law preventing you from owning an endangered species. Here's
what the state document says: Endangered species of wild animals will be considered Class I II or III by the division director's designee and must follow the same procedures accordingly for that class of animal.
So basically your local bureaucrat will decide if your pet western lowland gorilla is a Class 2
or 3 animal then you give him a ten-spot for processing and you're all set the proud owner of one of about fourteen western lowland gorillas.
Maybe you can take it to see the home of former president Benjamin harrison in the lovely Old Northside Historic District of Indianapolis.
It's worth noting that Maine is even more lenient than Indiana; the only real law in Maine is that wild animals have to have an identification tag.
Yet Mainers seem mostly uninterested in owning pet jaguarundis at least in comparison with Hoosiers. Foxes are only legal in a handful of states.
This is a pretty good guide. In some the laws are a little flexible; in Michigan where Fedewa lives you can have only a native species meaning the various colors of red fox.
The grey fox which is a totally different species more commonly found in the western and southern states is allowed not nor is the arctic or fennec fox.
A few states simply ban taking foxes from the wild. But the laws are often vague and open to interpretation
which can lead to trouble for fox owners who may or may not be in violation.
Dan Mitch Calmanson sounds a great deal like my father and I believe your description is ill-chosen.
Where is my miniature pet elephant? Its simple animal breeding anyone can do. We should have domesticated versions of all wild animals by now.
This story was covered in a PBS special called Dogs Decoded about canine DNA and domestication.
They were using these foxes as an example of how domestication can actually change the physical traits of these animals such as shorter snouts floppy ears and more expressive eyes.
Foxes are awesome! The work done to make more tame fox's were not in any way an attempt to make a pet.
They were to be used as animals for the fur trade. Wild animals would be tested to see which ones tended to be less wild
lucky for the fox) All of this is on a PBS show. Who the heck has $8000 for a pet fox?
I mean seriously. I have to wonder about the domestication project. What exactly happens to all of the non chosen ones?
An ordinary house cat is more than enough for me. Also I'm not comfortable with the idea of even domesticated exotic animals.
and sure enough that's because it was in Scientific American in 2010. blogs. scientificamerican. com/guest-blog/2010/09/06/mans-new-best-friend-a-forgotten-russian-experiment-in-fox-domesticationand the great thing about it their version
if it eats your cat. It seems weird to me to genetically engineer an animal to love us...
at least when we initially domesticated wolves they served a purpose we needed them to help us with livestock to hunt vermin etc...
I will be speaking to the Alabama Conservation Advisory board on Feb 9 to make a case for making foxes legal pets in AL (currently ALL foxes are illegal regardless of origin.
Please consider signing my petition at Change. org/petitions/domestic-fox-legalization. If you have any advice
I live in Georgia where we have an ample supply of (common) possums. I had the occasion to rescue some baby possums which
I later learned was illegal to do (without a wildlife rehab license of some sort). I'll tell you baby possums are really fun to play with
and fully grown possums are not the disgusting filthy vicious animals you may think. Their behavior is roughly comparable to cats:
they keep themselves clean but don't have much personality or a complex behavioral repertoire and
I never had one bite or scratch or otherwise act aggressive toward me (I'm not referring to wild possums but the ones I rescued and raised).
They can be trained to use a litter box. An expert will probably tell you there's dangers trying to tame
or domesticate possums and I would defer to a true expert. I just regret that an interesting and fun animal that is at the opposite extreme of being endangered is illegal to own.
The GODS need to domesticate the local primates enable their communication skies instill them a high desire to gather greed with the imagination and intelligence to do so.
Hmmm I know people who own Bobcats here in Texas . And have seen first hand how these animals will cuddle
My friends Bobcat even plays with his dog lol! Not all animals from the wild will try to bite your face off!@
I think this has been tried with zebras several times but for whatever reason never works. Far Out Man my comment was as much about the writing style as the repetitiveness.
So I want a pet fox. But I won't get one. I will take pictures of them
I don't know about foxes but my wolf is a butthole.@@reader 6789 very well then. I found the article to be quite interesting and well written.
Of course I'm coming from the side that wouldn't want a wild animal as a pet so
However even now I'm asking myself why Dan would want a fox...and I certainly don't want my neighbor to have a wildcat as a pet!
Help Stop Fox and Coyote Hunt Pens. Please read and pass on the more people who know the facts the better. o-called foxhound training facilities
or fox pens as they are known more commonly are parcels of land with a minimum size of 100 acres
which are fenced entirely to create an escape-proof enclosure into which foxes are released ostensibly for the purposes of training foxhounds to follow the scent of foxes
and pursue this quarry. Foxes are live-trapped from the wild within a 50-mile radius of the facility and stocked into these enclosures at densities determined by the owners.
Then for a fee paid to the fox pen operator hounds are allowed inside the facility to pursue these foxes.
While owners and advocates of these facilities contend that the foxes are harmed not by this confinement
and pursuit the fact that approximately 4000 foxes have been introduced to fewer than 40 such facilities in the last few years seems to contradict such statements.
Go the The Wildlife Center of Virginia website for more info. wildlifecenter. org/news events/news/help-stop-fox-pens-virginiacome here little fox let us inbreed you into submission:
pdammit this article really fires me up...I want a pet fox so badly now!
Make me think of this: âÂ#Âoeso the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near--Ah said the fox I shall cry.
It is your own fault said the little prince. I never wished you any sort of harm;
but you wanted me to tame you...Yes that is so said the fox. But now you are going to cry!
said the little prince. Yes that is so said the fox. Then it has done you no good at all!
It has done me good said the fox because of the color of the wheat fields. âÂ# âÂ#ÂANTOINE de Saint-Exupã  ry The Little Princefoxes are beautiful but
I still prefer the many dogs and cats we have now! To me foxes belong free in the wild
so we need to help protect them and their natural habitats. -Author Janette of the new poem Beloved Cat:
Once Mortal enemy Now Immortal Friend at www. indefenseofcats. com/cat-book. html#Belovedcatpoemam I really the ONLY reader who was reminded of Kevin & Kell (a web comic) while reading this article?!?
When tame wild animals grow up they retain the characteristics of their wild counterparts and not those of a domesticated pet.
So why would an animal that is affectionate and social by nature acquire an uncharacteristic behavior like becoming antisocial?
I have pet red fox Aspen and pet raccoon Savannah that I purchased from Tiny Tracks in Ind
I live in FL and I love them like they are my children. Savannah follows me around and loves to be petted.
Aspen loves to run in fenced in yard she also loves to be petted and lots of attention. She is good on leash
and loves all dogs so I have to watch her around dogs so they don't get her!
She has gotten out in the neighborhood and always comes back. 2x). ) I do spend alot of time with them
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