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I always wondered how come the first animal to be domesticated happened to be a predator? Sheep and goats seems much easier to control around and call it as dom
by restalis 10y ago
I always wondered how come the first animal to be domesticated happened to be a predator? Sheep and goats seems much easier to control around and call it as domestication. I guess it had something to do with the way humans lived at that time, 30-40'000 years ago. I imagine that as hunters, they were more inclined to accept hunting helpers than to try herding herbivores.
- CapitalistCartr 10y agoHerbivores flee us. Other predators will show us a respectful distance, but are much less fearful. So we can start an informal relationship with a few wolves or such by throwing them a bit of meat from a big kill. I'd much rather tame a carnivore; it'd be vastly easier. And taming is the forerunner to domestication.