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
One thing a lot of domesticated animals share is that the juveniles are watched over and taught by the parents basic strategies on how to feed itself. Most birds don’t have such close relationship between parent and juvenile. Once the juveniles leave the nest they may hang around and watch the parents for a short while, but they won’t stay for long.
Without that long time of interaction between parent and offspring, they never really learn the strategies of relying on humans or build on the strategies of the previous generation to further domesticate themselves.
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