alt Hacker NewsIt's common in fur farms that they breed the animals that are most friendly to humans, and in only a few generations those animals behave like very friendly pets, and killing them becomes more difficult.
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wendgeabos • yesterday at 1:56 PM
huh so that's a way that it's adaptive for the animals
ekr____ • yesterday at 4:21 PM
akkad33 • yesterday at 8:15 PM
Why do they kill animals for fur? Could they not shave them? (I realise my question sounds dumb)
A NOVA episode on dogs showed a Russian study where they bred the most friendly foxes with each other and did the same with the most aggressive (so extremes in both directions). The aggressive-bred animals were like that scene in I Am Legend where he checks on his infected rats. They were being fed, and they still wanted to kill their feeders. Kind of terrifying.