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I mean, taming animals is trivial. Look at the lion whisperer. People before that thought that lions are always wild. Some animals are just harder to tame and
by shevy-java 14d ago
I mean, taming animals is trivial. Look at the lion whisperer. People before that thought that lions are always wild.
Some animals are just harder to tame and remain ferocious more than others. But behaviour of animals is adaptable and most animals learn.
- reaperducer 14d agoI mean, taming animals is trivial. FTFA: "The man took the animal home, believing it to be a domestic breed. But after about a year of living with the clearly wild animal, he realized it would be better off at a sanctuary."
- shagie 13d agoThere's a YouTube (and other) channel out there about a guy and his (I use the possessive with caveats) coyote (named Weave). His motto is "Anything can be a pet if you don’t mind getting bit."
- quickthrowman 14d agoI think the lady that got mauled to death in 2018 at the lion preserve that guy works at might disagree with you if she hadn’t been y’know, mauled to death by a lion. https://edition.cnn.com/2018/02/28/africa/woman-killed-lion-sanctuary-intl/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2018/02/28/africa/woman-killed-lion-...
- account42 11d agoPeople also get mauled by dogs yet we don't consider that to mean that they can't be domesticated. A domesticated animal is still an animal and if its big enough to kill you can coommon enough then some people will be killed by it.
- WalterBright 14d agoA tamed lion ripped the face off of Melanie Griffith.
- quickthrowman 13d agoI still need to watch that movie, I feel obligated to see it after so many people suffered so many injuries while filming it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roar_(film)#Injuries_and_set_damages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roar_(film)#Injuries_and_set_d...
- WalterBright 13d agoI've watched a lot of horror shows that had no effect on me. But this one wasn't a horror show, it was for real. I found it very disturbing. I couldn't believe what I was watching.
- olvy0 13d agoAnd you'd think Tippi Hedren would have learned not to go around wild, untamed animals after what her character wrnt through in The Birds!
- WalterBright 13d agoI missed that connection!
- sscaryterry 14d agoThe only reason my house cat has not murdered me is because he is 4kg, and I'm not. He loves me though.
- WalterBright 14d agoMy cat always looked at me like "if only you were smaller..."
- sscaryterry 14d agoI'd be getting scared when a cat reaches the 20kg threshold. I'm about 90kg, so thats a 4.5x ratio :) Cats are the perfect killing machines (apart from maybe sharks) :)
- WalterBright 14d agoThere's a bobcat that lives around here. He's on my porch now and then, and I also see its tracks in the snow. It doesn't look like it wants to be petted. I stay clear.
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- WalterBright 13d agoYep, a bobcat. But much smaller than the one around here.
- nunez 13d agoomg WHAT Where do you find this?!!??! This is GOLD!
- mdp2021 13d ago> always wild If they do not have a developed prefrontal cortex acting as a filter from instinct to action, they will be nice or calm for a long time - until the whim occurs and they will act violently. Maybe just for a fraction of a second. And at that point, their strength and natural weapon will make a whole difference.