Future domestication

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Future domestication; ideas
Topic Started: Oct 21 2010, 09:55 AM (960 Views)
Dragon wasp	Oct 21 2010, 09:55 AM Post #1
Prime Specimen Posts: 1,863 Group: Members Member #184 Joined: Jul 7, 2009 Area of expertise: Xenobiology Nationality: Canadian	so, what would we domesticate in the future, and what would it look like, in fact what would dogs, cats, birds, cows, sheep etc. look like?



Ook	Oct 21 2010, 10:10 AM Post #2
not a Transhuman Posts: 2,933 Group: Members Member #282 Joined: Mar 10, 2010 Gender: Male	basically,musk ox´s(musk oxen/oxes?) became more domesticated,alongside with moose,and eland antelope(in fact they re bovines-more related to cattle than to true antelopes),if these project will be ongoing,also maybe domesticated foxes became more common Edited by Ook, Oct 21 2010, 10:12 AM.



Pando	Oct 21 2010, 12:12 PM Post #3
Obey or I'll send you to the moon Posts: 5,648 Group: Members Member #275 Joined: Feb 24, 2010 Area of expertise: Future Evolution	Skunks and sugar gliders are the first species that come to mind about future animal domestication. Just check this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pets#Common_types



Ook	Oct 21 2010, 12:52 PM Post #4
not a Transhuman Posts: 2,933 Group: Members Member #282 Joined: Mar 10, 2010 Gender: Male	perhaps some kind of domesticated kangaroo,in australia or fully domesticated emus,rheas and ostriches



Spugpow	Oct 22 2010, 07:07 PM Post #5
Prime Specimen Posts: 1,025 Group: Members Member #389 Joined: Sep 20, 2010	An idea I've had for a while is a cow from which meat can be "harvested" in the form of fleshy lobes hanging off the animal's back. The lobes grow back, and are regularly cut off and eaten.
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irbaboon	Oct 22 2010, 07:31 PM Post #6
Adolescent Posts: 345 Group: Members Member #73 Joined: Sep 5, 2008	If someone could create monkeys and or apes that made good pets, they would be very popular.



Kamidio	Oct 22 2010, 09:16 PM Post #7
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colddigger	Oct 22 2010, 10:05 PM Post #8
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Kamidio	Oct 22 2010, 10:26 PM Post #9
The Game Master of the SSU:NC Posts: 14,725 Group: Members Member #149 Joined: Mar 12, 2009 Nationality: Who knows?~♪ Favorite Quote: "Do you remember how many loaves of bread you have eaten in your life?" - Dio Gender: Dude	And the raping of the wife and the higlibben! (insert various stereotypical Jewnerd sounds)
	SSU:NC - Finding a new home. Quotes Steve Irwin I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it. Satoru Iwata - Heart of a Gamer Even if we come from different sides of the world, speak different languages, even if we eat too many chips or rice balls, even if we wave different tastes in games, every one of us here today is identical in the most important way: each one of us was the heart of a gamer. The Writing on the Wall You should not have come here. This is not a place of honor. No great deed is commemorated here. Nothing of value is here. What is here is dangerous and repulsive. Parasky \| 2015 You can't be 100% certain Barack Obama is currently the US president, or that the nation of Canada even exists. Dan Avidan See, what I like to do now as an adult is take all that anger and frustration and push it down deep inside of me, until it becomes a seething white core of pure hate. Dan Avidan Follow your stupid fuckin' dreams. WAA http://31.media.tumblr.com/2f7731936cac777ea7b8cb26e8ccaab6/tumblr_inline_mxz9c7XmS41qa4twn.png636,360 http://tmv.proto.jp/reblog.php?post_url= A tool to reblog my own posts. I put it here because I know I'll forget it.


Adman	Oct 23 2010, 08:51 AM Post #10
Totally not lamna Posts: 3,898 Group: Members Member #375 Joined: Sep 2, 2010 Gender: Male Nationality: The Great Atlantic Steppe Favorite Quote: “I dont leran from no one“ -Archeo	Maybe fully domesticated elephants, maybe other species that are farmed for meat and furs and skins, like lions, crocodiles, and rhinos. Bears could become full time companions, and parrots are domesticated even further to the point of dogs.
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Ook	Oct 23 2010, 08:56 AM Post #11
not a Transhuman Posts: 2,933 Group: Members Member #282 Joined: Mar 10, 2010 Gender: Male	domesticated elephants..they re alongside with primates and cetaceans the worst domesticatable (cool i invented new word-translator is weird,he ont want work -_-) animals



lamna	Oct 23 2010, 05:30 PM Post #12
Posts: 21,140 Group: Global Mods Member #26 Joined: Jul 1, 2008 Gender: Male Nationality: British	The Soviets were going to domesticate elk (or moose as the strange Americans call them) and use them as as winter cavalry. Then WW2 broke out and showed that mounted troops were all but finished. They did try some experiments in ranching moose, and the experiments continue today. But a big problem with it is that you can't really slaughter them for meat as they only return to the farm because they choose too. I hear it's quite probably that in the Midwest, or whatever you call the empty prairie bit in the middle of the USA and Canada that Bison will replace Cattle in farming. Better able to live in the environment.
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Spugpow	Oct 23 2010, 05:45 PM Post #13
Prime Specimen Posts: 1,025 Group: Members Member #389 Joined: Sep 20, 2010	According to Jared Diamond, domestication is a lot harder than you might think: only certain animals have the right combination of characteristics, and we've already domesticated them all. I suppose that with modern technology it might be possible, but to domesticate any new animal through selective breeding alone would take monumental effort.
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Ook	Oct 24 2010, 02:54 AM Post #14
not a Transhuman Posts: 2,933 Group: Members Member #282 Joined: Mar 10, 2010 Gender: Male	ELk(moose) was used many times as ridable animal trought history Riding elks were banned in sweden during 17 century,because smugglers could easily escaped on them



lamna	Oct 24 2010, 07:58 AM Post #15
Posts: 21,140 Group: Global Mods Member #26 Joined: Jul 1, 2008 Gender: Male Nationality: British	I think that's true to an extant, we won't domesticate anything new over night, but I still think there is potential out there. In Africa it's looking possible that Eland might replace cattle one day.
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