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• stenAanden@feddit.dk ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  But what if we spent longer time doing it? Like centuries, like with most other domesticated animals.

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  • stray@pawb.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m not sure why you’ve been downvoted because you absolutely could domesticate them given sufficient time and consistent selective breeding. You could turn them into crabs if you wanted to. The trouble is that they don’t have a very social disposition, so no one is motivated to dedicating their entire bloodline to the project. Most domestication happened kind of on accident as we developed symbiotic or exploitative relationships with various species.

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    • some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      +1 for carcinization reference

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  • HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Domesticated animals generally start out already being somewhat agreeable. Like dogs hung around us, and work in a pack mentality, horses same thing, cats same thing. That’s why we could domesticate racoons or some rodents if we wanted to.

    Zebras are assholes and hate everyone

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      cats same thing

      I think cats are unique in that they domesticated themselves

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      • HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Basically yea, but it still has a bit of the same where we had what they wanted and they were agreeable enough we worked with them. If anything they domesticated us 😂

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    • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Foxes didn’t have many domesticatable features, but it just took the Soviets 40 years or so to domesticate them. It really might just be nobody spent 100 years trying.

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      • HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Foxes can be agreeable creatures to begin with. Look at the amount of videos of people who have adopted foxes.

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    • stenAanden@feddit.dk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Ehhh… Can you really call wolves friendly?

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      • HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Depends on the wolf. I know people who have both owned and rehabilitated wolves, some are just big babies… Babies that will absolutely ruin you if you piss it off 😂

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  • BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Might take more than centuries, but yes.

    We have a rescue dog from Korea as well as some neighbours ( not a standard breed, but a Korean Village dog, they basically live alongside humans as a breed but developed their own way). They are much different than “normal” dogs. They are more like cats. Their way on their terms. Like other dogs, don’t enjoy humans much. So even though they are domesticated, they still show the old lineage of being independent. My dogs idea of a good time is never chasing a stick or ball, but finding the highest vantage point at a park and watching everyone. A carryover from watching the plains from the hillside, or something.

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