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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The number of trained raptors is minuscule in comparison to the number of chickens (also a bird). All of the bazillion chickens are selectively bred to have desirable traits, as result of domestication. Raptor breeding is a tiny fraction of the size.
Also, many of the traits that make good hunting birds might be lost in domestication, and that would be unhelpful.
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