Eli5: Why can’t you make a pet out of a wolf, a bear or a lion?
In: Biology
We did domesticate wolves, and over time, their human friendly forms became dogs. Wolves simply still exist alongside domesticated dogs now.
Same with felines, eventually small wild cats became house cats.
We could do the same with bigger ones, but there really isn’t a need to. And it’s hard to force animals to mate in captivity (Zoo’s have a hard enough time at this) so domestication of these animals just isn’t as easy as wolves and small cats were.
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