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No. 1499: Domesticating Animals (530 words) |
 | First, Diet: domestic animals should be herbivores or at least omnivores. |
| A deer is farouche, and it can't be domesticated. |
| And, in Africa, all the domesticated animals are imports. |
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Ringstreakes, Speckled and Spotted, Alaska Science Forum (844 words) |
| This isn't quite as crazy as it sounds; possibly the biggest difference between domesticated and wild animals is that domestic animals have been selected to breed very freely, while wild animals of both sexes (as witnessed by the frustration of zoos trying to breed them in captivity) are extremely choosy about their mates. |
| Domesticated animals are descended entirely from those wild animals that were unchoosy enough about their mates to reproduce in captivity. |
| Furthermore, the spotted animals would be relatively visible to herders and readily identifiable as domestic, and might have been unconsciously favored for these reasons. |
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