i would like to hear your ramblings on cheetahs if you'd be willing to share :D
Ofc!!! The ramblings were originally just me trying to tell our sister about the post, but I can just try and ramble about what I think abt stuff
Anyways!!! It's really interesting to me that the post essentially insinuates that humans could domesticate just about any animal that needed their help to live, and with the amount of extinction rates recently I feel like that number might start going up, which will probably give them a lot of new domestic animals. I'd have to take a minute to look up a list of currently endangered animals to really make a list though.
My thought is, if a lot of animals do begin becoming in need of human intervention to the point of domestication, will anyone actually take that??? Humans are kind of assholes a lot, and they're already the ones largely resulting in these animals needing any help in the first place, as well as it becoming very obvious that a LOT of humans are beginning to heavily lack empathetic emotions towards anything aside from themselves and people who they are close with and/or consider useful. So, would the people who are able to begin capturing these animals and caring for them properly actually do it? Or would they consider the cons to outweigh the pros for some animals, and let them die purely because they wouldn't be useful to them?
This kind of especially goes for endangered bugs, since there's only a very small handful of bugs, to my knowledge, that humans bothered to domesticate for anything. That's especially concerning, since bugs are both predators for lots of other bugs, and prey for a lot of animals.m