Why do animals like lions and tigers sometimes “forget” about their previous owners but dogs don’t have that instinct to kill them?
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I think it has little to do with memory and everything to do with behavior. Domesticated animals like dogs have been bred to not have a “killer instinct” like their wolf counterparts do in nature. They lack the predatory instincts and the desire to act on it due to years and years of living in a domesticated and home environment. Lions and tigers on the other hand are simply wild animals that have been forced to live with an owner. It is only a matter of time before their natural instincts overcome whatever was keeping them docile.
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