<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Sep 15, 2010, at 10:54 PM, Gregory Jones wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">Diamond made an interesting comment in GGnS. No new beast species has been domesticated in the past 3000 yrs. </span></blockquote><br></div><div>In some old tomb paintings it looks like the ancient Egyptians tried to domesticate both hyenas and cheetahs, although neither experiment turned out very well. I saw a film about somebody keeping the world's largest rodent, a capybaria, as a pet and it seemed to me that might work.</div><div><br></div><div> John K Clark </div><div><em><br></em></div><div><em><br></em></div><div><i><br></i></div></body></html>