Comment by boffinAudio
14 days ago
I have a random stray living in my yard, in a major metropolitan city here in central Europe, who regularly displays immense affection for me (of course, I feed her) and is playful and engaged and interacts with me in what would be perceived, by humans, in a loving manner.
However, she has her limits, and will often give me a hefty bite if I do something she considers unacceptable, such as stop scratching her ears and instead try to pet her fur or clear it of nestles, which she seems to love collecting.
It is me, being domesticated. I wait for my ears to flop.
Isn't it the scientific consensus that humans also show signs of domestication?
The article in the post includes a link to exactly that. The hypothesis is that groups of humans one way or another weeded out the too aggressive ones, and thereby made it possible to actually create groups (where "aggressive" here means to automatically "bare their teeth and hiss" to newcomers, like undomesticated animals often do).
Some more than others according to my observations :\
It may well be, but the authority in my garden has demonstrated to me time and again that my claims of science are entirely irrelevant if the dindins aren't deposited in a timely manner, in which case, its war and thus bitey bitey time .. she does get pretty familiar with the scientific method, howevever, when the time comes to chase away the bugs and deposit certain necessary fluids in the neighbors rose bed, whatever their religion has to say on the subject ...
I'd love to be domesticated