If we domesticate wild animals, will they adapt to us?
First of all, you cannot domesticate wild animals, nor should you try. You will put the animal, yourself, and others in danger. If the animal happens to be a natural predator, it might create a situation where the animal would have to be killed. Even in a circus, the handler of big cats and elephants carries sticks, whips, electric prods and guns. Domestication is not a quality trained into an individual, but one bred into an entire population through generations of living in proximity to humans. At the most, you can train them using violence, to exist in contact with humans, but you cannot curb their wild instincts completely. They are meant to roam freely. Secondly, why would you even want them to adapt to your ways? It would be unnatural and unfair. There are laws which protect these animals from being domesticated.
First of all, you cannot domesticate wild animals, nor should you try. You will put the animal, yourself, and others in danger. If the animal happens to be a natural predator, it might create a situation where the animal would have to be killed. Even in a circus, the handler of big cats and elephants carries sticks, whips, electric prods and guns. Domestication is not a quality trained into an individual, but one bred into an entire population through generations of living in proximity to humans. At the most, you can train them using violence, to exist in contact with humans, but you cannot curb their wild instincts completely. They are meant to roam freely. Secondly, why would you even want them to adapt to your ways? It would be unnatural and unfair. There are laws which protect these animals from being domesticated.
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