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I wonder why they stop the training/business, we will have now baboon guides for blind people or something similar.

• zamalek 7y ago
  Baboons are pretty terrifying, they wouldn't make a very good service animal if you expected to be around other people.
  • dzhiurgis 7y ago
    That's what they used to say about * people
  • BurningFrog 7y ago
    You could breed it out of them in N generations. Wolfs are terrifying too!
    • kwhitefoot 7y ago
      You could try but you might end up breeding out the very qualities that made them useful as well.
      • Wowfunhappy 7y ago
        The breeder would need to select for both types of traits. It would just take a very long time, with no certainty of success.
        • BurningFrog 7y ago
          The Russian Fox domestication experiment has come pretty far in 60 years: http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160912-a-soviet-scientist-created-the-only-tame-foxes-in-the-world http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160912-a-soviet-scientist-c...