If huskies being the closest breed of domestic dog to an undomesticated wolf is any indication: I totally believe it. Those dogs will do literally anything for a tasty treat. And so would I, for that matter.
“What would you do for a Klondike bar?”
“I have killed and would kill again.”
Must be why cats leave dead mice and birds for you; they see you like a human sees a dog and offer a snack in exchange for ownership claims
Inversely, it feels almost instinctive for humans to offer treats to animals they meet. Despite science being clear it’s a bad thing to do, it’s really hard to convince people not to feed wildlife for example.
Also petting them, we just want to pet everything especially if it’s somewhat fluffy and soft, even if that’s really not a good idea (and i don’t mean “haha i wanna pet the crocodile” i mean petting parrots, which is a sex thing for them and makes them VERY confused and frustratedly horny)
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I mean, same
I’m a bitch for chips.
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Same here.
That’s not a very good headline. Of course they did it for food, the model was about whether they could have domesticated themselves fast enough without being forced.
I’ll have to actually look into the research; I have trouble imagining how one would model that in silico.
Edit: A link. Looks like they assumed human tolerance only effects odds of getting human food, and is (except for occasion mutants) inherited as a random point in between the mother and father’s.
“When females were selecting mates, they also had to select males that had a similar tameness to themselves,” study co-author Alex Capaldi, a mathematician and statistician at James Madison University in Virginia, told Live Science. “So if both of those processes are in play, then it is possible for the self-domestication hypothesis to beat the time constraint critique.”
“Snax and chill.”
The genomic signature of dog domestication reveals adaptation to a starch-rich diet | Nature
