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Too good. Thanks for the morning laugh. And the self-domestication theory makes more sense than a lot of theories I've read.

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Our closest living relative, the chimpanzee, can't be domesticated. They can be made to do tricks when young usually through fear of violence; but once sexually mature they will literally rip your balls off and tear out your throat. Here's to happily zoomorphizing!

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excuse me mr leo, but isn't this pretty much just like using the continued existence of a few wolves to deny that they were domesticated into pugs?

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Hello Cat, I foolishly hope not. despite all evidence to the contrary post 2020.

Some species take to domestication canines, some pachyderms, most ungulates like sheep.

I think if Pavlov rang the bell to some chimps with no food he would have likely become the food.

I share a romantic affiliation for the notion that unlike Orwell's Winston I'll never break or bow and nor will brave men and cats the whole world over. If you put a rat in a box on my head I'll roar with rage in defiance, not fear, and then I'll try to bite it.

If you know what I mean :)

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Excellent!

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Stolen and re-posted without attribution. #ThisIsTheWay

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