Maven (famous)@piefed.zip to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoThe American Howling Retrievermedia.piefed.zipimagemessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up1620arrow-down115
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minus-squarepython@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·1 day agoPiebald coloration has also been found to be a marker of domestication too, although there isn’t much of a good explanation for it yet - https://susancrockford.substack.com/p/thyroid-hormone-and-spotted-coats
minus-squareTexasDrunk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 day agoI saw somewhere (ok, I probably didn’t imagine it) that they believed pigmentation was linked somehow to adrenaline production. But it wasn’t proven at the time.
Piebald coloration has also been found to be a marker of domestication too, although there isn’t much of a good explanation for it yet - https://susancrockford.substack.com/p/thyroid-hormone-and-spotted-coats
I saw somewhere (ok, I probably didn’t imagine it) that they believed pigmentation was linked somehow to adrenaline production. But it wasn’t proven at the time.