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Hey /an/ can it is be fennec tiem noa plz?
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Oh, those are so cute!
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>>107337
in b4 deletion
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I want one...but I'll never own one...damn tight bio-security measures...
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>>107341
I too want one, but I'll never own one out of fear I wouldn't care for it as well as it deserves.
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k so I'm bored just posting pics now...why are image macro's not allowed here again?? they be teh funny...
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>>107346
The rules apparently are no macros in /an/. Blame mods.
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>>107344
Yeah, there is that too - if you ever go to their homeland and see how much space these little guys have it's hard to justify keeping them in captivity unnecessarily
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>>107349
I knew it was a rule, I just wondered why...maybe the mods like to enjoy nature in it's pure, unmacrod-ness...or something
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>>107352
Or maybe they are just fed up with them from /b/.
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>>107354
Gee I never thought of that...and it's so obvious...
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>>107355
Your idea is good too though, but I would think if that was the case they'd moderate the number of cat threads.
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And one last one courtesy of national geographic...I wonder if it's legal to post...oh well, night /an/
>>107356
Yeah - theres like a whole image board for them on 7chan, they may occasionally be hilarious but I could swear they take over everything...and then ferrets take over from them...and then it's all down hill...
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Bump.
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>>107349

It's not just in /an/, macros are banned outside of /b/.
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>>107496
I don't see many macros outside of /b/ or /an/ anyhow.
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>>107497

It'd be nice if they just stayed over in /b/. Personally, I miss the old /n/ature board, where you weren't even allowed to post pics of your dog/cat. Not many macros there. Still lots of fennec foxes, though.
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>>107499
Sounds good.
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>>107507
Fennecs are 50% ear and 50% cute?
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>>107350

Not really. In the wild, fennecs roam large territories because they have to in order to find enough food to sustain themselves, not because they enjoy it or like the freedom. I'm pretty sure, considering how food-driven most animal species are, fennecs would easily sacrifice the expansive spaces they are required to roam to prevent starvation in order to have a temeprature-controlled climate where there is plenty of food, no natural predators, veterinary medication, and gentle interaction with a handler.
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>>107556
Domestication has only advantages for a species.
Any species that ever got domesticated by man has fared better and got spread further around the globe than any other species. Considering only the evolutionary payoff for a species we did some serious favors to certain animal species. Even to the ones we eat or wear as some freakish ornamentation.
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>>107556
furfgt
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;_; so cute
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>>107572
Depends whose pov you take. Organisms are vehicles for the improvement and propagation of genes, and domestication means a loss of control over reproduction to some extent.
For example, there's more cows than there would be if their ancestors hadn't been domesticated, and they are more widespread, but the genes that were prevelant in the population at the time of domestication have lost out. We have selected for other genes that give more meat or milk over the ones that "should" be there, ie those that code for a viable wild cow.
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low res images are lowww
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>>107588

It's still a selection process. In the wild, genes from specific animals are passed on because they make the animal better able to survive in his environment. The animals don't chose to pass on their genes. Their environment dictates it by weeding out animals with shitty genetic make-up through predation, disease, starvation, etc. With domesticated animals, human intervention simply takes the place of nature's intervention.
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>>107603
Sure. My point was that if I'd been one of those genes that had been making cow ancestors and getting passed on and very occasionally improved for untold millenia because I coded for a good survival trait, I'd be pretty pissed to find myself extinct in the blink of an eye, having been binned by another species in favour of a gene that makes fat cows but wouldn't have stood a chance in the wild.
>> Anonymous
I wouldn't say that human intervention takes the place of nature's intervention. Evolution still occurs, though it is changed by the human element.

The ability to hunt might not be important for a domestic animal, and thus animals that hunt poorly might continue to reproduce. But, on the other hand, animals traits that humans like such as acting playful or having a visually attractive pattern, do get passed on.

Animals that have good hunting and survival instincts do well in the wild. In captivity, those that are pleasant to look at and have a human-friendly temperment do well.
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>>107612

Genes are not separate animals. It is a marker carried on an animal's DNA chain. They are not sentient in any way and do not have feelings, thus they do not give a shit if they get passed on or not.

>>107613

Sure, nature and humans weed out different genes in some cases, especially when we are discussing pets and not working or food animals. However, it is still a SELECTION process, and desirable genes are passed on while less desirable genes are not. The animal itself is unaware of the process in both scenarios and therefor does not care which one applies.
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>>107624

Have you ever read The Selfish Gene? I think that's what the other poster was getting at - genes reproduce themselves just for their own sake, and will try to continue to make more copies of themselves even if it's bad for their "host" - usually natural selection weeds those out. When humans take over, it's artificial selection. Still selection, yes, but with very different pressures.
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Mogwai!
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>>107624is right,>>107628is wrong. Genes get passed on via reproduction, but I wouldn't word it like "they pass themselves on" as it implies that genes are consious beings.
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>>107655

I don't think anybody was implying that they are conscious beings. The idea is that evolution acts on the gene. Selection on the whole organism does occur, but rarely overcomes selection on genes. This concept (pioneered by Williams and Dawkins) is the foundation of modern evolutionary biology.

The point is, and I think this is what a few previous posters were getting at, is the easiest way to try to explain this in conversational terms is to say the gene wants to pass itself on. If you want to split hairs and continue to say that's incorrect because it implies the gene is a conscious being, then you're missing the bigger point. No one that is educated enough to keep up with the conversation at this point actually thinks genes have thoughts or feelings.

How did we even get here? Back to fennec foxes.
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>>107346
>they be teh funny...

Exactly.

Also, fennec threads are always full of retards who are like BAWW I WANT ONE
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>>107672

If you don't say baaaaaw I wants one, there is something wrong with you. Look at those faces!!

Baaaaww... I want one
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>>107686
Something is wrong with me.

Baaaaawwwwwwww....I think they are so cute I'll die, but I rather leave them where they belong; in the wild.
>> Anonymous
Oh grow up. We do nothing but favors when we domesticate. Even the cows we use for beef lead less predator intensive lives than they would have otherwise. The wild is not some fancy animal playground...it is a terrible place filled with things that desire to rip the flesh from the bones of squaling fennecs.
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>>107697
Wanting and getting are two different things. BAWWWWW!
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>> Sephel
WTF?!?
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That is the cutest thing in existance.
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>>107799

Meant to link. >.<
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>>107795
Not a fennec. Not a funny macro. =(
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I think they always look like they are concentrating really hard on not falling over because of their ears.
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I don't think these are fennecs, but still cute.
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>>107968
More of the not fennecs.
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Anyone got a picture of a fennec and a ferret together?
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>>108117
I think it'd be awesome since their names are a lot a like. Fennec and Ferret.
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>>108269
Also they're both cute.
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>>108281
And both fennecs and ferrets need an ample amount of responsibility to care for.
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lol, max images