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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Mostly people stole eggs in the wild and raised those, it can be really finicky to breed them in captivity.
This means they haven’t been selectively bred by humans for companionship the same way something like dogs or livestock have.
Domestication involves breeding an animal to live alongside humans. Falconry has mostly just tamed a wild animal from scratch over and over again.
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