Eli5: Why can’t you make a pet out of a wolf, a bear or a lion?

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Eli5: Why can’t you make a pet out of a wolf, a bear or a lion?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Domestication is a genetic level change. You *can* make a pet out of a wolf… it just takes thousands of generations spanning several thousand years, and turns the wolf into a husky. Or a pug.