How are there so many videos, etc. of people interacting with bears peacefully even though they aren’t domesticated?
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Side comment but “domesticated” doesn’t mean tamed or able to be tamed. It means that humans have been involved in their breeding for so long that the species has been altered to a point where you could say humans created it. Milk cows as we know them never lived “in the wild.” There is no such thing as wild cauliflower. Those species have essentially been developed by humans through long periods of selective breeding. That’s what domesticated means.
Granted, most domesticated animal species are compatible with humans because we breed things to serve us. So there is a high correlation between being tamable and being domesticated, they’re just not the same thing.
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