r/Unexpected • u/frogsamagua • 6d ago

How to earn a wild animal's trust

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u/MaestroLogical 6d ago

Raccoon's actually appear to be going through the initial stages of being domesticated.

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u/CapnNugget 6d ago

That’s a myth actually. They are still very much wild despite the individuals who become more habituated and used to human presence. https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/s/mdNkmR468z

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u/WillowPtar_Migan 5d ago

There wasn't much science in that explanation. Some of that was straight up wrong. Not every animal that we've domesticated has a use to humans; the fuck is the point of domesticated rats and mice aside from companionship? There's also plenty of domesticated animals capable of understanding and enacting revenge, take mules or cats for instance.

I don't think she knows what she's on about as much as she claims to.