Falconry has existed for at least 2000 years. Despite this, no form of hawk, eagle, falcon, or other commonly used bird is domesticated. They’re still considered tame wild animals.
Humans domesticated cats, ferrets, horses, pigeons, chickens, and rats. So why is there no domesticated form of falcon or hawk yet?
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There is at the end of the day just perhaps 20 species that works good with domestication. We can tame a lot of animals to not rip off our faces, but its a lot of hit and miss as they just dont have the right “attitude” to be domesticated. As someone else mentioned in a comment, famous is zebra vs horse, you can not domesticate a zebra. You might be able to tame one if you have it from birth, but any large scale domestication will not happen. And that goes for most animals, you can not get a herd of buffalo to calmly walk where you want them to, it just wont happen.
You can especially not domesticate predators – just think of a cat… how domesticated is it really? It has accepted that humans are for the most part nice to me, they give me food and a warm place to sleep – but training a cat to ie. stop killing birds, good luck. Its a small tiger living in your house – whereas the dog sees you as a bit weird dog, thats a good leader of the flock because somehow you magically always have food, and you praise me like Ive been conditioned for 10.000 years to like.
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