• BarqsHasBite@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    There’s a video of someone who domesticated a baby beaver for whatever reason. It started piling things up at the hallway entrance.

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          9 months ago

          I disagree. “Domestication” is a pretty defined process in terms of agriculture. It takes generations of selective breeding to create a domesticated version of a species, and a bunch of physical and behavioural traits have to be bred out. A wild animal can be tamed, but it would never be considered domesticated. You can take a wolf pup and raise it to be tamed, but it will never be a domesticated wolf (dog).

          I’d be curious to know where you got that definition.