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Not technically a bug, but behavior of Ja'zennji Siir Fox mount not fox-like.
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Upon previewing the Ja'zennji Siir Fox mount, while the overall appearance and style of this fox mount were both astoundingly stylish and enticing, the behavior seemed identical to that of a wolf-mount, and came across as very unnatural.
This does not make sense, since real foxes are far more curious, mischievous, and playful, and behave, essentially, similarly to a hybrid between a coyote and a cat. (Furthermore, domestic dogs, coyotes, red wolves, and every subspecies of grey wolf all have 78 chromosomes, whereas red foxes have 36 chromosomes, and arctic foxes have 50 chromosomes. As a result, foxes actually belong to entirely different genera than the other aforementioned canids, resulting in crossbreeding between foxes and those other canids to be genetically impossible.)
Foxes, similarly to cats, have retractable claws, at least some species (in particular, the gray and red fox) can climb trees, are nocturnal, and apparently use the Earth's magnetic field to hunt (specifically, they seem to see a ring of “shadow” on their retinas that is darkest towards magnetic north and always appears to be the same distance ahead, and succeed in hunting prey most often (73% of the time) when this "shadow" and the sound of potential prey line up in a north-easterly direction).
Sixty-two years ago, a Russian biologist, Dmitry Belyaev, director of the Institute of Cytology and Genetics in the then Soviet Union, domesticated foxes by selectively breeding only those specimens that exhibited traits of friendliness toward human beings in an experiment to prove that, similarly, dogs first became domesticated as a result of genetic selection.
Although thus-domesticated foxes are friendly toward human beings, they behave quite differently from both dogs and wolves. Specifically, upon encountering an unknown human being, domesticated foxes tend to have a habit of approaching, greeting, and then moving away from that person. In contrast, wild foxes tend not to approach the person and remain on guard, whereas dogs (if they like that person) tend to approach the person and stay with that person.
(Archaeologists with the University of Cambridge, in the United Kingdom, recently discovered that the earliest record of a fox being buried with a human being actually predates that of the earliest record of a dog being buried with a human being by approximately 4,000 years. In other words, early humans actually preferred the company of foxes to dogs. According to this discovery, which was revealed in a paper published on January 27, 2011, the buried fox was found at a 16,500-year-old cemetery in northern Jordan, Uyun-al-Hammam, and was most likely a pet buried together with the intention of accompanying the human being in the afterlife.)
Foxes make different sounds from both wolves and dogs. Recent research has shown that adult foxes make at least 12 different sounds, while kits make at least 8. In particular, in addition to making barks, screams, howls, and squeals, foxes have a habit of making a "gekkering" sound, which is a short, repeatedly yap sound made by foxes that are either fighting or playing with each other. Red foxes can also make a quite frightening and loud scream, which they use as a distress call to warn other red foxes of danger.
Please differentiate the behavior of the Ja'zennji Siir Fox mount from that of other canid mounts. Foxes have dramatically different personalities from most other canids, and simply do not behave similarly to small wolves. A fox is not a small wolf; it is closer to a hybrid between a coyote and a cat.
Edited by DekuDekuplex on July 26, 2021 12:49AM This does not make sense, since real foxes are far more curious, mischievous, and playful, and behave, essentially, similarly to a hybrid between a coyote and a cat. (Furthermore, domestic dogs, coyotes, red wolves, and every subspecies of grey wolf all have 78 chromosomes, whereas red foxes have 36 chromosomes, and arctic foxes have 50 chromosomes. As a result, foxes actually belong to entirely different genera than the other aforementioned canids, resulting in crossbreeding between foxes and those other canids to be genetically impossible.)
Foxes, similarly to cats, have retractable claws, at least some species (in particular, the gray and red fox) can climb trees, are nocturnal, and apparently use the Earth's magnetic field to hunt (specifically, they seem to see a ring of “shadow” on their retinas that is darkest towards magnetic north and always appears to be the same distance ahead, and succeed in hunting prey most often (73% of the time) when this "shadow" and the sound of potential prey line up in a north-easterly direction).
Sixty-two years ago, a Russian biologist, Dmitry Belyaev, director of the Institute of Cytology and Genetics in the then Soviet Union, domesticated foxes by selectively breeding only those specimens that exhibited traits of friendliness toward human beings in an experiment to prove that, similarly, dogs first became domesticated as a result of genetic selection.
Although thus-domesticated foxes are friendly toward human beings, they behave quite differently from both dogs and wolves. Specifically, upon encountering an unknown human being, domesticated foxes tend to have a habit of approaching, greeting, and then moving away from that person. In contrast, wild foxes tend not to approach the person and remain on guard, whereas dogs (if they like that person) tend to approach the person and stay with that person.
(Archaeologists with the University of Cambridge, in the United Kingdom, recently discovered that the earliest record of a fox being buried with a human being actually predates that of the earliest record of a dog being buried with a human being by approximately 4,000 years. In other words, early humans actually preferred the company of foxes to dogs. According to this discovery, which was revealed in a paper published on January 27, 2011, the buried fox was found at a 16,500-year-old cemetery in northern Jordan, Uyun-al-Hammam, and was most likely a pet buried together with the intention of accompanying the human being in the afterlife.)
Foxes make different sounds from both wolves and dogs. Recent research has shown that adult foxes make at least 12 different sounds, while kits make at least 8. In particular, in addition to making barks, screams, howls, and squeals, foxes have a habit of making a "gekkering" sound, which is a short, repeatedly yap sound made by foxes that are either fighting or playing with each other. Red foxes can also make a quite frightening and loud scream, which they use as a distress call to warn other red foxes of danger.
Please differentiate the behavior of the Ja'zennji Siir Fox mount from that of other canid mounts. Foxes have dramatically different personalities from most other canids, and simply do not behave similarly to small wolves. A fox is not a small wolf; it is closer to a hybrid between a coyote and a cat.
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