Wild Horses Can’t be Broken: Zebra Domestication Attempts (2014)

Re:Wild Horses Can’t be Broken: Zebra Domestication Attempts... by tdb7893 on Sunday May 06, 2018 @03:40PM (#17008040)

Most of the time if they bite they aren't being malicious, generally you are doing something they don't like so they nip you to tell you to stop or most often they are just scared. If you understand how to handle them few cats are actually a problem, my wife works at an animal hospital (where the cats are generally pretty stressed out) and she's only really been bitten once

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Re:Wild Horses Can’t be Broken: Zebra Domestication Attempts... by derefr on Sunday May 06, 2018 @03:44PM (#17008070)

Yes, but this is true of many wild animals as well. The whole meaning of "domestication" is to change an animal's instincts to be more intuitive and easy to manipulate using human socio-tribal instincts, without knowing anything about how the animal thinks per se.

Or: you don't need to do this with dogs—at least the breeds people actually keep as pets—because [those breeds of] dogs have been bred for friendliness.

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Re:Wild Horses Can’t be Broken: Zebra Domestication Attempts... by xyzzy_plugh on Sunday May 06, 2018 @03:56PM (#17008152)

My wife is a veterinarian, and gets bit by dogs more often than cats.