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Nice horsie! ๐
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Yes, people have tried to domesticate zebras before and they're just too ornery.
But what if we spent longer time doing it? Like centuries, like with most other domesticated animals.
I'm not sure why you've been downvoted because you absolutely could domesticate them given sufficient time and consistent selective breeding. You could turn them into crabs if you wanted to. The trouble is that they don't have a very social disposition, so no one is motivated to dedicating their entire bloodline to the project. Most domestication happened kind of on accident as we developed symbiotic or exploitative relationships with various species.
+1 for carcinization reference
Domesticated animals generally start out already being somewhat agreeable. Like dogs hung around us, and work in a pack mentality, horses same thing, cats same thing. That's why we could domesticate racoons or some rodents if we wanted to.
Zebras are assholes and hate everyone
I think cats are unique in that they domesticated themselves
Basically yea, but it still has a bit of the same where we had what they wanted and they were agreeable enough we worked with them. If anything they domesticated us ๐
Foxes didn't have many domesticatable features, but it just took the Soviets 40 years or so to domesticate them. It really might just be nobody spent 100 years trying.
Foxes can be agreeable creatures to begin with. Look at the amount of videos of people who have adopted foxes.
Ehhh... Can you really call wolves friendly?
Depends on the wolf. I know people who have both owned and rehabilitated wolves, some are just big babies.... Babies that will absolutely ruin you if you piss it off ๐
They were friendly to the other wolves in their pack. Now we've turned that so dogs see us as their pack