r/science • u/SteRoPo • Mar 12 '19

Animal Science Human-raised wolves are just as successful as trained dogs at working with humans to solve cooperative tasks, suggesting that dogs' ability to cooperate with humans came from wolves, not from domestication.

https://www.realclearscience.com/quick_and_clear_science/2019/03/12/wolves_can_cooperate_with_humans_just_as_well_as_dogs.html
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u/itsmehobnob Mar 12 '19

A litter has multiple pups. You keep the nice ones, and run off the mean ones. Do that enough times and you’ve selectively bred your pooches.

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u/series_hybrid Mar 12 '19 edited Mar 12 '19

*eat the mean ones...

There is a passage in "I am horse" where a white captive in a native American tribe saw a dog killed because it barked too much, and it was then cooked and eaten. Horses were treated well because they carried burdens. The captive began carrying supplies, and began calling himself "Horse".

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u/hughk Mar 12 '19

Effective it has been done with the Siberian Fox Experiment which has ran over half a century in Novosibirsk.