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Why do they get fewer mice now? Because the grain more securely stored? More effective poisons? Fewer mice in the region? Funfact: unlike horses and dogs, cats
by hyp0 12y ago
Why do they get fewer mice now? Because the grain more securely stored? More effective poisons? Fewer mice in the region?
Funfact: unlike horses and dogs, cats were only domesticated once, and spread with agriculture (to protect stored grain from mice).
- eru 12y agoIt's not even clear that man domesticated cat. It seems more likely the other way around.
- agapos 12y agoThe most accurate description of cat-human relationships I have ever seen.
- delecti 12y agoAdditionally there's evidence that man didn't initially domesticate dogs. Rather, wolves that were more compatible with humans could get closer and benefit from the interaction, leading to more domestication and closer integration, etc., until dogs. Of course since then we've done all manner of absurd things to the species (as adorable as some people find them, inflicting pugs upon wolves was terribly insulting).