Domesticating a wild animal

[Fenster]

So if you raised the animal from birth, they will never attack you?

There are dozens of cases of the "loving" friendly wild animal "unexpectedly" turning on it's owner.

Tame Hollywood bear that ripped its trainer/owners throat out. Loving Gorilla that ripped owners face off. Siegfried and Roy getting attacked by a lion/tiger during the performance. Timothy Treadwell (Grizzly Man). Plus a million circus animal incidents.

Just because there's some limited evidence the Animal will bond with the human it doesn't mean that it will stay that way. In the first video (Christian the lion) they went to see it whilst it was still being cared for by humans. They never went back to see if it was still that friendly after it had been let loose to hunt and breed on it's own.

In the 2nd Vid - The Gorilla seemed as comfortable around the other humans as the dude it apparently could recognise.

3rd Vid - Timothy Treadwell?

4th Vid - There's no evidence he recognised the woman. As he's in a South American zoo he probably has no teeth or claws left either.

[Fenster]

[Fenster]

[Fenster]

[Fenster]

Wild animals are meant to live in the wild. Not with dopey humans.

[VictorCharlie]

There is a difference in a tame and domesticated animal. Obviously you can tame an animal of just about any kind under the right circumstances but it takes generations of taming and correct breeding to get a domesticated animal and even then you still have the occasional pet that attacks. There was a really good story a few years back about pet foxes and the selective breeding it took to produce them as good pets. I imagine most dog breeds went through generations of the one that bit its master ended up in a pot thus removing that aggressive gene.

[El Kabong]

Domesticated animals are bred that way over generations. All domestic dogs relate back to the wolf. Odds are that Beta Males who were kicked out of packs gathered around human settlements and the humans got the easier to domesticate dogs right off the bat (well easier than an Alpha male wolf) but through years and years of breeding and selecting which traits were good, which traits were bad etc we have the nice doggies we have today. It took lots of time to do that.

Wild animals are WILD...it might seem a bit repetitive but it's true. These animals like the lions and the ape may have had to be re-trained to be "wild" but they were never "domesticated".

For example Koko, the ever so famous sign language talking gorilla....seemingly docile and friendly would every so often rip sinks out of the walls. Which is disconcerting...she did blame that on one of her kittens but just imagine that, if Koko got a little irritated at someone she could quite easily dismember them with only her hands.


In an interesting reversal of this "domesticated pigs" the pink Babe lookalikes can revert to being feral in a matter of hours. And VC can, I am certain, explain how destructive those bastards are.....deadly sob's too!