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bonds with its owners, because wolves are missing these genes. Interestingly enough, • In a similar experiment, real humans are sometimes born with these people were positioned in three genes, which cause a genetic disability front of dogs, either crying or called Williams syndrome. One of the humming. When the dogs were released, symptoms of Williams syndrome is extreme they investigated the crying people far more friendliness. often than the people who were humming. • A tombstone some 4,000 years old Furthermore, when dogs were given the uncovered in Egypt in 1935 was dedicated to choice of approaching either a crying a dog. It said, “The dog which was the guard stranger or their owner who was crying, of His Majesty. Abuwtiyuw is his name. His they generally chose the crying stranger. Majesty ordered that he be buried, that he • A team of researchers trained dogs to lie still be given a coffin from the royal treasury, fine while inside an MRI so scans could be taken linen in great quantity, incense. His Majesty of their brains. They discovered that the area gave perfumed ointment and ordered that a that lights up when humans are exposed tomb be built for him by the gang of masons. to something pleasurable is duplicated His Majesty did this for him in order that he in a dog’s brain. Next they wanted to find might be honored.” out what sort of items a dog found most • This tombstone represents one of the earliest pleasurable. They exposed each dog to a documented domestic animals whose name series of cloths that smelled of different is known. The dog is believed to have lived things: its own body smell, the odor of its in the Sixth Dynasty (2345–2181 BC), and owner, the smell of a stranger, a familiar received an elaborate burial in the Giza dog, and an unfamiliar dog. The answer was Necropolis at the request of a pharaoh invariably that the dogs preferred the cloth whose name is unknown. Abuwtiyuw was that smelled like their owner. likely a sighthound, a hunting dog similar • The bones of a dog uncovered a century to a greyhound. His tomb and his mummy ago in a quarry near Bonn, Germany, were have never been found. The tombstone carbon dated at 14,223 years old. This may was discovered near the Great Pyramid of and had survived the illness. This could only be the first instance of a domestic dog rather Giza in a heap of stones scavenged from old have happened if it were being cared for by than a wolf, because the state of the enamel on projects to be used humans. the dog’s teeth showed that the creature had • R e s e a r c h e r s in new projects. suffered from the disease called distemper, Off the coast • analyzed the of Melbourne, Delight thyself also in the DNA of 912 Australia, there’s a domestic dogs Lord: and he shall give thee the desires small island that’s and 225 wolves, of thine heart. Commit thy way unto home to a species searching for the Lord; trust also in him; and he of penguin called genetic differences. shall bring it to pass. little penguins, They isolated Psalm 37:4-5 KJV because they stand a set of three only a foot tall. The genes responsible Brought to you by Roger Davis colony is located for social traits just 60 feet (18 m) including extreme offshore. Normally gregariousness. there’s 60 feet of Domestic dogs water protecting had one, two, or all them from mainland predators, but three of these genes, and their friendliness sometimes shifting sands form a sand spit correlated to the number of those genes allowing predators to cross to the island. In that they had. Wolves, however, had none 2004, marauding foxes plundered the island, of these genes. Wolves removed from their killing all but six of the 800 birds. The locals mothers at the earliest possible time after were upset. Then a farmer mentioned that birth and raised by humans will not bond to humans in the same way a domestic puppy Continued on Page 4
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