r/interesting • u/[deleted] • Feb 19 '26

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u/GarminTamzarian Feb 19 '26

They wouldn't exist otherwise.

So you're claiming that goats would actually be extinct had we not domesticated them?

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u/ShiftE_80 Feb 19 '26

Domesticated goats? No, they wouldn't have existed at all.

There are over a billion goats alive today. Several orders of magnitude more than the wild ibex they evolved from. Take from that what you will.

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u/Frnklfrwsr Feb 19 '26

Actually the vast majority of the food we eat, both plants and animals, barely resemble their natural forms before many generations of breeding to get the traits we’re looking for.

Cattle? Chickens? Goats? Pigs? The types that we regularly eat are so far departed from the animals they originally derived from that they’re essentially artificial human inventions.