Scott and I will have to devise standard criteria to judge the behavior of each fisher that we film near a flamingo and score them along the shyness-boldness personality axis.
We have been thinking a lot about the shyness-boldness axis as one that might be most meaningful for a species that was historically only in the wild, but recently colonized suburban areas.
The shyness-boldness continuum is also found in wolves, the direct ancestors of dogs, indicating that it has remained "evolutionarily stable" despite the pressure of domestication and thousands of years of breeding for specific traits, the researchers said.
As expected, he found significant differences and considerable overlap in the scores for each trait and on the shyness-boldness continuum among breeds, genders and individual dogs within breeds.
"It's not a real patient and so if you get it wrong there's no shame" "Freedom to palpate" "Also not the shyness/inhibitions associated with friends" "Being able to examine a patient that isn't a peer.
