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?
In: Biology
Partly the answer is why bother? A captive bird can live for 20 years and it’s pretty easy to trap and train one and historically you could even trap a seasoned hunter and just have to train it to hunt with you which is even easier.
Breeding raptors is kinda a pain, they are quite territorial and don’t lay a lot of eggs per season, you can get more with modern tools like incubators but it’s still pretty hard to breed birds of prey.
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