• Thrashy@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    There’s a series of photos from a wildlife photographer that are essentially selfies of him with a litter of cheetah cubs that the mother cheetah literally dropped in his lap while she went to go hunt. It’s been theorized that the only reason cheetahs have never been domesticated is that that they’re very difficult to breed in captivity.

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          11 hours ago

          I guess no need to go through the efforts of the classical definition of domestication when you can take them from the wild ready to tame