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Same for cats: wildcats, such as the species Felis lybica, began exploiting new resources offered by human environments, such as a proliferation of rodents in
by tantalor 3y ago
Same for cats:
wildcats, such as the species Felis lybica, began exploiting new resources offered by human environments, such as a proliferation of rodents in grain stores. These cats were tolerated by people, supporting their natural evolution to deviate further from their wild counterparts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-domestication#Cats https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-domestication#Cats
- bluGill 3y agoIf you read the article, this is using a different definition of domestication. Both are types of self-domestication, but they are also different. Cats domesticate to live with/near human society. Elephants are domesticating not to live with humans, but to live in a society of their own.
- tantalor 3y agoThat certainly sounds like a novel sense of the word "domesticate" that most people would not recognize. Maybe a better word would be "socialized".