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.
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HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month agoDomesticated 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
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 1 month ago
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Foxes can be agreeable creatures to begin with. Look at the amount of videos of people who have adopted foxes.
stenAanden@feddit.dk 5 weeks ago
Ehhh… Can you really call wolves friendly?
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
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 😂
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
I think cats are unique in that they domesticated themselves
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
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 😂