If I'm right about that, my interpretation of your encounter with the fawn is that Leo was retrieving her for you, because your walk was a hunt, of course.
Yep! In response to this an your previous comment, dogs have been bred for thousands of years for hunting, "varmint hunting", watch dogs, protection, and especially protection from squirrels. It's pretty amazing how in a few thousand years people have bred wolves into Chihuahua to Great Danes. I think the wolf is the canine being who it is, or wants to be, without humans fucking with it. And, yes, I have see Wolfie, when he was with a dog, immediately work together the dog and get a squirrel ... the dog damaged it, and I yelled at Wolfie. But, yeah, they love to work together in a pack and hunt.
It is a little sad to see some of the health problems that manifest consistently in domesticated breeds. On the other hand, I view everything that humans do through the lens of nature. We aren't supernatural. Just as dogs give chase in packs, we manipulate our environment to suit our needs when we get together. In a sense, that is our species' foremost defining characteristic.
I LOVE the exponential function: 1 + x + x^2/2! + x^3/3! + ... The only function for which it is also its integral and derivative. But, it's just a mathematical model. In nature, the exponential function works great ... but only sometimes and always for only a little while.
Simplest example being the diode or solar cell. Yes, the current increases exponentially with with voltage, but a some point the internal resistance makes its presence known and it gets very hot and then burns up and the current goes to zero.
I suppose you're familiar with the concept of a Great Filter?
We will, presumably, never get an answer to the question. But I subscribe to the view that some yet-undiscovered weapons technology is the Great Filter. In the future, perhaps the near future, humans will create bombs so massive or bioweapons so deadly that some nation will wield them as a promise to destroy humanity if attacked. And then other nations will until, eventually, one of them will make good on it, by accident or otherwise.
I think your sample size is too small for conclusiveness. I'm going to speculate, though, that some domesticated dogs that were bred for hunting have overactive chase instincts, whereas grey wolves and timberwolves, for example, only hunt in pack settings (hence Nashoba giving chase with Leo).
If I'm right about that, my interpretation of your encounter with the fawn is that Leo was retrieving her for you, because your walk was a hunt, of course.
Yep! In response to this an your previous comment, dogs have been bred for thousands of years for hunting, "varmint hunting", watch dogs, protection, and especially protection from squirrels. It's pretty amazing how in a few thousand years people have bred wolves into Chihuahua to Great Danes. I think the wolf is the canine being who it is, or wants to be, without humans fucking with it. And, yes, I have see Wolfie, when he was with a dog, immediately work together the dog and get a squirrel ... the dog damaged it, and I yelled at Wolfie. But, yeah, they love to work together in a pack and hunt.
It is a little sad to see some of the health problems that manifest consistently in domesticated breeds. On the other hand, I view everything that humans do through the lens of nature. We aren't supernatural. Just as dogs give chase in packs, we manipulate our environment to suit our needs when we get together. In a sense, that is our species' foremost defining characteristic.
Oh, this is like too much for me.
I thought it might be simple, i.e., in Trish's words, Dog B-A-D BAD, Wolves, G-U-D Good. And now it's like maybe Humans B-A-D ?
On that note, it remains to be seen if we, like bacteria in a petri dish, commit inadvertent mass suicide.
:-D
I LOVE the exponential function: 1 + x + x^2/2! + x^3/3! + ... The only function for which it is also its integral and derivative. But, it's just a mathematical model. In nature, the exponential function works great ... but only sometimes and always for only a little while.
Simplest example being the diode or solar cell. Yes, the current increases exponentially with with voltage, but a some point the internal resistance makes its presence known and it gets very hot and then burns up and the current goes to zero.
Silent radio signals from distant stars and nearby galaxies seem to suggest that is true.
No No NO. That would be Trish is right, which one could never admit. But, on the other-other hand, didn't she say she was an alien?
Hehe.
I suppose you're familiar with the concept of a Great Filter?
We will, presumably, never get an answer to the question. But I subscribe to the view that some yet-undiscovered weapons technology is the Great Filter. In the future, perhaps the near future, humans will create bombs so massive or bioweapons so deadly that some nation will wield them as a promise to destroy humanity if attacked. And then other nations will until, eventually, one of them will make good on it, by accident or otherwise.
I think your sample size is too small for conclusiveness. I'm going to speculate, though, that some domesticated dogs that were bred for hunting have overactive chase instincts, whereas grey wolves and timberwolves, for example, only hunt in pack settings (hence Nashoba giving chase with Leo).