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Animals That Are Overdue For Domestication
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I have literally never read a better idea ever. If it could be trained to hover-dangle its tackle box on the heads of people that piss me off I'm afraid I just wouldn't be able to contain myself.
It's almost 2014. Science and understanding of genetics has improved and yet I still don't have a cuddly miniature Panda bear in my home.
Comes bred for litterbox usage, good with children, feeds on standard cat food, and does light accounting work.
Bam! Million seller! Amiright?
Why are we wasting money and time growing human ears on mice or creating crops that can't be used for reseeding when I don't have a domesticated Meercat yet?
Who is in charge of science? They are about to get an angry email.
Aren't pandas just big ol bears? take those eye patches off a pirate he's still a pirate. I don't know man I have a feeling it will rip my arms off & use them as toothpicks after he's done eating the rest of my flesh. Get one!
If you enjoy tidbits like my domesticated fruit bat, you're more than welcome to sign up for my newsletter. First time subscribers get a commemorative tote bag.I have literally never read a better idea ever. If it could be trained to hover-dangle its tackle box on the heads of people that piss me off I'm afraid I just wouldn't be able to contain myself.
Domesticated micropandas* are to bears what a domesticated house cat is to the Kraken from Clash of the Titans. Science is steadfastly removing the pandas' urge to delimb their human owners at excitingly quick rates. Survivors of the beta testing are increasingly satisfied at their appendage retention percentages.
*patent pending
For making you laugh out loud laugh out loud? The ATM machine would be over there ->
For making you laugh out loud laugh out loud? The ATM machine would be over there ->
Don't look at lol like what it's the actual acronym for anymore, I just tack it on to give my posts a good natured feeling. LOL
If you're talking about a flying car, its all good until you realize everyone else gets one too...
::shudders::
Just stumbled across an interesting article and reminded of this thread. Apparently, cat's are and were the only animals to ever domesticate themselves.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/science/genetics/2008-06-09-science-of-cats_N.htm
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/science/genetics/2008-06-09-science-of-cats_N.htm
I don't buy her "theory" about dogs. We "probably took wolf cubs". "Probably" isn't science.
Dogs came to steal the bones and waste we cast aside. A symbiotic relationship ensued, where, if wolves were hanging around leaving us unharmed because of the easy food supply other predators like big cats were kept away. Friendship followed as we recognized the benefit and began actively feeding them and the space between us shrank as trust increased.
You don't need to be a scientist to figure that out. Mutually beneficial relationship. No different than the cat story. Cat people are, I digress.
Cat people need to watch a show by CBC. Here's the upshot.
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"And just wait until Professor Joanne Webster of London’s Imperial College reveals “feline fatal attraction”. That’s when toxoplasma gondii, a single-celled parasite, convinces a rat that it’s actually sexually attracted to the smell of cat urine. This makes the rodent easy pickings for its most dangerous predator. And all so the parasite gets to move into the cat, where it can reproduce and complete its lifecycle.
But guess what -- human adults can be infected by toxoplasma too. And when the parasite is inside us it doesn’t know it’s not on board a rodent and it tries the same mind manipulating tricks. Jaroslav Flegr of Prague’s Charles University has linked toxoplasma infections in humans with increased traffic accident rates and even personality changes. Kevin Lafferty also studies toxoplasma, and he thinks explains some of the differences between different human cultures."
Dogs came to steal the bones and waste we cast aside. A symbiotic relationship ensued, where, if wolves were hanging around leaving us unharmed because of the easy food supply other predators like big cats were kept away. Friendship followed as we recognized the benefit and began actively feeding them and the space between us shrank as trust increased.
You don't need to be a scientist to figure that out. Mutually beneficial relationship. No different than the cat story. Cat people are, I digress.
Cat people need to watch a show by CBC. Here's the upshot.
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"And just wait until Professor Joanne Webster of London’s Imperial College reveals “feline fatal attraction”. That’s when toxoplasma gondii, a single-celled parasite, convinces a rat that it’s actually sexually attracted to the smell of cat urine. This makes the rodent easy pickings for its most dangerous predator. And all so the parasite gets to move into the cat, where it can reproduce and complete its lifecycle.
But guess what -- human adults can be infected by toxoplasma too. And when the parasite is inside us it doesn’t know it’s not on board a rodent and it tries the same mind manipulating tricks. Jaroslav Flegr of Prague’s Charles University has linked toxoplasma infections in humans with increased traffic accident rates and even personality changes. Kevin Lafferty also studies toxoplasma, and he thinks explains some of the differences between different human cultures."
Uhh what? Early humans were nomads. Wolf eat sheep. Humans needed sheep for food/clothing, etc. There's nothing symbiotic about that. Also I don't really see what humans get out of wolf eating our discarded food - what is the benefit for humans? Also wolf have been known to attack humans so there is nothing "common sense" about your post.
Did you not read where I said the presence of wolves near humans would keep large cats away? Beneficial.
The article said dogs were domesticated first, obviously we had to be stationary. That what the cat scientist said, not me.
You could read the article. She said that dogs were first, that man captured wolf cubs.
I said more likely they were hanging around us, eating our scraps.
Read carefully much?
The article said dogs were domesticated first, obviously we had to be stationary. That what the cat scientist said, not me.
You could read the article. She said that dogs were first, that man captured wolf cubs.
I said more likely they were hanging around us, eating our scraps.
Read carefully much?
