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Animal MBTI type

Toad

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Are animals smart enough to have their own personality type? If they do, is there a test for them? Maybe just some animals? Which animals do you think?

I was thinking maybe dolphins, apes, dogs, and cats are smart enough to have their own personality.


This thread is fun...:p
 
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You're stupid. lmao

I'm sure animals would have a Completely different mode of thinking then humans, even thinking that they'd have an MBTI Type is absurd.
 

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Jeez, thanks for calling me stupid, you jerk face! haha
 
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To be honest, I have contemplated if somebody has ever thought up a 'Domestic Cat' type system. I wondered if I could think up such a typology. =3
 

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Someone started a thread like this ...god... aeons ago...

it was fluff then and it's fluff now.
 

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I guess it was a stupid topic then. I was just thinking about it last night though. I guess u can delete it LoR.
 

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cats = introverts
dogs = extroverts

seriously

And within species, animals definitely have personalities, ie, particular styles and patterns of behaviour, so I don't see it as a fluff thread. We used to have two labradors - one was needy and sly, the other was more sedate and authoritative. However, it's a bit of a stretch to think they might have a personality in-depth enough to be classified under MBTI.
 
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To think that they can be classified under MBTI is closedminded. MBTI is a human made test. Animals would have their own, completely different, functions of thinking.
 

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It is true that animals do have personalities but not as complex as human personalities and thus applying MBTI to animals does not work.
 

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On a slight tangent, what species of animal would best represent the INTP type?

An eagle makes sense symbolically however being a bird of prey it's most likely a J type if anything... a crow may be better, they're mostly solitary and are widely known to be keen puzzle solvers.
 

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We could try this on chimps who speak sign language.
 

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Its more a question of environmental forces than type. Our understanding of personality type is completely dependent on the human culture we grew up in. An INTP human in a primitive culture might look extremely different (though they'd still likely be fairly independent).

If you're looking specifically at domesticated animals there's the issue of selective breeding, which has the potential to wipe out personality diversity, but a successful wild species will likely contain a number of personalities, as that is evolutionarily preferable.

Comparing species is dependent on an us vs. them mentality, lumping an enormously diverse group together based on their dissimilarity with us (i.e. gentiles). For that reason, any thorough approach to comparing the personalities of dogs and cats must arrive at the conclusion that no correlation exists beyond known characteristics (pack-mentality, etc.).

If you want to analyze only domesticated dogs, you might have more success because of how they were bred to be ideal complements to humans, but at best you'll have a comparison too difficult to translate (exponentially harder than the primitive INTP).

That being said, they were bred for human-like traits, and its not overstepping any bounds to apply human characteristic adjectives (i.e. shy, gregarious) to specific breeding lines.
 

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On a slight tangent, what species of animal would best represent the INTP type?

An eagle makes sense symbolically however being a bird of prey it's most likely a J type if anything... a crow may be better, they're mostly solitary and are widely known to be keen puzzle solvers.

They had this topic on PersonalityCafe.

INTP's were the owl.

I wanted to find a link to it...but it seems PC forum is down right now.

It was really interesting what animals represented the other types.

Edit: Here is another link...but it's not quite the same as the one they had in PC forum. http://www.thebuzzbook.co.uk/index.php?page=excerpts&catID=1

Edit 2: After looking at that link...it looks like complete BS.
 

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No, watch dogs are probably I. At least mine is.

MBTI for animals is bullshit. Show me an animal that has N.
I have an introverted dog and a completely extroverted dog. My favorite dog is extremely close to my personality; even down to his insecurities. He's a pretty deep and intelligent dog. Slow moving.. shy. Definitely notices patterns and uses interesting strategies to (politely.) get what he wants. The other dog is a completely shallow idiot whose only redeeming qualities are that he's adorable and can catch food really well.

To be honest.. I don't see why we should be much different from other mammals. Why should they have less functions than we do or be less complex? Perhaps with less variation or chances to show it.

That said.. I think the percentages and manifestations of animal personality are relative from species to species. And no, I don't think the MBTI translates to animals. But I do think they're capable of the same functions in varying, relative, amounts.
 

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I think animals have personalities, but it would be hard to type them since we don't have a great way of communicating with them. It might be interesting to see if other animals like elephants, apes, and dolphins could try to communicate about themselves to us. Sign language could provide some rudimentary form of communication that could give us some insight, but would probably leave a lot of questions that needed good scientific answers.
 
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