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Raccoons do seem to fit a lot of the criteria for taming, if not necessarily domestication. They're gregarious and social, have vaguely recognisable body language, eat a lot of the same stuff we eat and seem to be quite intelligent.
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ToxicFrog posted:That article seems to be very confused about the distinction between "taming" (habituating a wild individual to human contact and control) and "domestication" (selective breeding of an entire population for long-term cohabitation with humans). Yeah, though I think I get the gist; raccoon behaviours are at the very least too far off from cats and dogs (both carnivores) for similar techniques to work, and they're too large and dextrous to be kept like rodents. I suppose one point of comparison might be monkeys; despite technically being possible to tame and live with, you still need a dedicated enclosure for them to live comfortably, and can't be left unsupervised in human environments like cats and dogs.
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Wasabi the J posted:I hear movie lines in normal conversation all the time, I can't believe I just kinda forgot all the marvel movies for a while. To be fair a lot of them are pretty drat forgettable, the moreso the more they go on.
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That cat is VERY tolerant, or that raccoon has figured out new tricks of petting we didn't.
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