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Perhaps it is the humans that have been domesticated.
by Simulacra 3y ago
Perhaps it is the humans that have been domesticated.
- mschuster91 3y agoDon't get why you got downvoted, because IMO it is based on a historical truth - cats have served as pest control for literally millennia of human history and did such a good job at it that they have managed to get humans to take cats with them while migrating towards new areas.
- katbyte 3y agoThey still do an amazing job of it. There is likely no better solution (poison is bad as it kills local wild life, traps require more effort)
- mrguyorama 3y agoCats are TOO good at it. Our love of them as friends is resulting in broad extinctions of bird species.
- katbyte 3y agoif you live in any urban area us humans have already outdone them by far. and globally excluding islands with no predators it is likely humans are still the leading cause in one form or another (habitat, pesticides, herbicides) us destroying bird habitat and their food sources are far more an issue then cats but hey lets just focus on cats instead of those. not to mention in many ares outside urban centres cats are pretty low down on the food-chain and are as much prey as predator so the main reason to keep your cat inside is so it doesn't become somethings meal
- digging 3y ago> poison is bad as it kills local wild life Cats do, too, unfortunately.
- katbyte 3y agoif you live in any urban area us humans have already outdone them by far. and globally excluding islands with no predators it is likely humans are still the leading cause in one form or another (habitat, pesticides, herbicides) us destroying birb habitat and their food sources are far more an issue then cats but hey lets just focus on cats instead of those. not to mention in many ares outside urban centres cats are pretty low down on the food-chain and are as much prey as predator so the main reason to keep your cat inside is so it doesn't become somethings meal
- hinkley 3y agoThere’s a theory that the human iris is so small because it helped us in working with canines as mixed hunting packs (nonverbal communication) and that in a way it’s a domestication of humans. As we push back the date of first contact between humans and wolves that theory becomes more plausible.
- digging 3y agoIMO, it'd be pretty arrogant to assume we haven't adapted in any way to live better with the animals and plants we've chosen to live with day-to-day.
- hinkley 3y agoI'm carrying the bitter taster genes, which are adapted to alkyloid soils in southeastern Europe. Which means that some of my relatives must have migrated farther back than I know because as far as I'm aware I'm four or five kinds of northerner all mashed together. We are chock full of adaptations to time and place.
- somat 3y agohumans, almost by definition are domesticated. domicile: the house, domesticated: comfortable around the house. houses are built by humans.