[ExI] Corvids at play

[John Clark]

On Sep 15, 2010, at 10:54 PM, Gregory Jones wrote:

> Diamond made an interesting comment in GGnS.  No new beast species has been domesticated in the past 3000 yrs. 

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.

  John K Clark 



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