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We do continue to domesticate animals. The Russian red fox is an obvious example.
by kasey_junk 8y ago
We do continue to domesticate animals. The Russian red fox is an obvious example.
- TheSpiceIsLife 8y agoThat's the only one example I can think of. Are there any others?
- clouddrover 8y agoBudgerigars have been selectively breed for size and appearance for about 150 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budgerigar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budgerigar
- nn3 8y agoThere are lots of tamed wild animals around. For example tamed tasmanian devil's. Or tamed birds like parrots. But they haven't been especially bred for tameness, just they are naturally tameable.
- TheSpiceIsLife 8y agoI mentioned Tassie Devils in another comment. I'd hazard a guess most the Australian marsupials would make fairly okay pets fairly immediately. Kangaroos, wallabies, pademelons, tasmanian devils (I live here wooo!), quolls, all seem to get by okay in captivity, so that's half the battle won.
- Joakal 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_domesticated_animals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_domesticated_animals
- pvaldes 8y agoLots of fishes
- gwern 8y agoThe Russian fox program also apparently domesticated minks while they were at it. 'Fancy rats' (domesticated pet rats) are barely a century old. Ferrets are very big now and I get the impression they didn't use to be pets, although I don't know to what extent they are domesticated.
- TheSpiceIsLife 8y agoA sibling comment linked this[1] Wikipedia entry which claims: Ferret - 1500BCE, although yeah I've heard there's been an explosion in popularity. But you're right, Mink 19th century; and Fancy rat and lab rat 19th century. Domesticated hedgehog 1980s! 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_domesticated_animals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_domesticated_animals