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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-01-09 06:50 pm

[ SECRET POST #2564 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2564 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2014-01-10 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
Apparently attempts to domesticate big cats were a dismal failure. They're not carnivores, but zebras and African elephants were a bust, too. I was just skimming a book that had some info on this topic--and now I can't remember the title or author, only that it wasn't the primary subject of the book, which was non-fiction. It mentioned that fox study somebody else brought up, though. And I know that cross-breeding domestic cats with smaller wildcats is a thing, and sometimes caracals and cheetahs get trained for hunting the way falcons do, but that's not the same thing as domestication. So apparently nobody's figured out the exact traits that make a species easier to domesticate, or what domestication actually does to a species. But domestication is easier if an animal can live easily in close proximity to humans and has a pack/herd rather than solitary social structure. And it makes animals into something like perpetual juvenile versions of their wild ancestors. (Guard lions would be awesome. So would giraffe tree trimming services.)