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I was under the impression that dogs kind of did that too, at least initially. Basically wolves and foxes and so on following humans around eating scraps and sl
by p1necone 8y ago
I was under the impression that dogs kind of did that too, at least initially. Basically wolves and foxes and so on following humans around eating scraps and slowly becoming more accustomed to us.
Of course we found them useful enough that we then further trained and domesticated them too.
- crooked-v 8y agoMy theory is that African wildcats were already so well suited for the role they ended up in (hunting vermin without being annoying or dangerous to humans) that there was very little selection pressure on them for anything but general sociability and smaller territories. Most other domestic animals took much more drastic changes from their wild ancestors to become more than marginally useful.