A friend of mine works in a zoo. He told me that zebras are responsible for more zookeeper injuries (of varying severity) than most if any other animals, at least in the USA.
And cats are basically solitary animals. They don't live in herds. If one accepts you as a partner, it is because it was the cat's decision, not yours. They also decide when to play, and when to call it off. Some people like them better than dogs because of cats' independent nature.
I don't know if they don't have reproduction issues in captivity but they do check the entire list except for maybe the fact they can crush your skull, a small omnivore elephant perhaps?
except in ancient times winter season basically meant fighting is over , try to move your army in winter season , lots of snow , plants not growing fruits , less to hunt , foraging is a nightmare , also winter effecting your soldiers and every body is having shit time so now campaigning in winter is not a good Idea for attacker and defender alike , but war bears in summer will kick most historic army ass all day long
Bears don't actually have to hibernate. They do it, because finding enough food during winter is hard. If you give them food, they'll happily stay awake.
I feel like dogs were such an incredible find for domestication. In today's world where dogs are mostly kept just for fun, it's easy for people to forget what they really have to offer- not food or transportation but a dedicated workforce capable of performing complex jobs day-in, day-out, and happily. Watching border collies herd sheep will never not be impressive to me. And even today there are dogs doing vital work in our societies- aiding police and providing medical assistance.
cats are cool too. cats bring you food and other stuff they hunt. for ex, you may notice that cats who hunt birds or mice or even rabbits, will occasionally leave it on your shoes or something. also, cats are excellent at keeping pests away, thus making the house hold more hygienic. agricultural societies in general love cats, because cats keep rodents away from their crops.
i mean dogs are still used for a complex workfoce, as a Police Dog, Shepherd dog, Service dogs. see, Service dogs, because of their incredible sense of smell, are even trained to measure your blood sugar level and alert if its go up or down
Horses were in fact used for millennia before riding them became their foremost job. Before that they were used to pull things, like chariots. And they were much much smaller in their first, original iteration.
Turns out there are lots of animals that you *could* domesticate if for some strange reason you wanted to spend the decades doing it. But they never were domesticated or were not until very recently. Belyayev's foxes for example. The process from Wild Fox -> Domesticated Silver Fox took about 20 or so generations. Easily doable in one persons lifetime. History picked Grey Wolves instead.
Foxes are domesticated in the 20th century. It's a time when we had enough technology and resources to capture any kind of animal. When we were hunter-gatherers, we didn't have the technology to trap any significant number of fast-moving animals which we cannot outrun. Also, wolves weren't trapped by humans and tamed, they too just happened to follow us like cats, but, because they were social animals, they trusted us more and were eventually domesticated, foxes aren't as brave as wolves to follow humans, and they also aren't as social as wolves to be domesticated by Hunter-gatherers. With today's technology, we can even domesticate Tigers and Lions, we just need to take some Tigers or Lions from Zoo, make them socialise with humans from an early age and make the friendlier Tigers breed with eachother and do that for a couple hundred years. You'll have Domestic Tigers and Lions. Although, I think Lions would become domesticated before Tigers, simply because of their social nature. We cannot expect Hunter-gatherers to be able to do the same things.
The zebra/horse contrast is especially interesting if you also talk about the other domesticated equine. Asses generally don't fit the "family friendly" or "friendly" categories - they are usually solitary and they're notorious for being stubborn, especially when feral - yet domesticated asses, aka donkeys, still happened.
Excuse me, as a pony I can assure you zebras are really different. We have freindship, harmony, built castles for our princess while they still have not found out how to even build a bridge not to get aten by crocodiles. Or lions.
To be fair, a dude in a truck is the highest bandwidth internet available overland, assuming you fill the truck with large hard disks. *TERRIBLE* ping, but absurdly high bandwidth.
Crazy to think there are still people alive who were born when horses were still a very common mode of transportation. Can you imagine what a pain it would be to have to keep and maintain horses just to go anywhere? I live in a suburb where everything I need is within a 10-15 minute drive, but that’s a heckuva long way to walk. It’s just so weird that we are only a few generations removed from that. Especially when horses were it for all the thousands of years before then.
CGP Grey: **long explanation about dogs being the best pet** Me as a cat person: **waiting impatiently for the explanation of cats** CGP Grey: whereas a cat is a tiny tiger that lives in your house Me: ok i'll take that
Though to be fair cats were simply pest-contollers that, to better survive around humans, they had to become friendly. Which is an unusual trend in domestication.
"The Russian Farm-Fox Experiment is the best known experimental study in animal domestication. By subjecting a population of foxes to selection for tameness alone, Dimitry Belyaev generated foxes that possessed a suite of characteristics that mimicked those found across domesticated species."
@@zeff8820 they aren't fully domesticated but they're a lot more tame than similar tame foxes in America. The domesticated Russian fox has more dog traits such as droopier ears and more fur variation. They're not as domesticated as the dog, but the point of the research is to understand how domestication worked.
@@Cissy2cute when the survival pressure of camouflage dissapears, domesticated animals all have very different colours from the wild ones, donkeys and dromedaries being exceptions.
@@TracinyaLachance Humans are too stupid and high maintenance for elves to bother domesticating them, they'd get a much better return out of elephants Maybe the Dwarves would be up to the task of domesticating humans?
There is one misconception about domestication and breeding: Most people don't go "oh, this animal has great genes, I will breed it with that animal over there." Most breeding that happens isn't selecting animals with desirable traits but rather culling animals with undesirable traits. When winter comes and you decide, which part of your herd to butcher, you obviously choose to get rid of the problem animals rather than the well-behaved, healthy ones. And that's usually the biggest player in livestock genetics.
That and breeding control. Most domestic herds only have a handful of males who we adore to breed, and the rest are castrated. To the point where the English language actually has three separate words for pretty much every kind of barnyard animal, a word for the male, a word for the female, and a word for castrated males. Stallion, mare, gelding Bull, cow, ox Boar, sow, barrow Billy, nanny, wether Ram, ewe, wether Rooster, hen, (it's impossible to castrate a rooster)
"A cat is a tiny tiger that lives in your house" ...Yes, actually. Although I will note that they _do_ count as domesticated because of how modern cats were selectively bred for looks.
Who domesticated whom? Domesticated - brought under control in order to provide food, power, or company - able or willing to do cleaning, cooking, and other jobs and to take care of offspring 🙂
@@johnbox271 Cats were domesticated to do an important job - hunt rats and other vermin trying to eat stored food. They are definitely less friendly towards humans than dogs, but they still have been bred to be more friendly than a wildcat.
1. Yes, because it was funny. 2. That's not the only definition of murder (check Merriam-Websters). 3. Sometimes they do kill they're own species. 4. While you're on the dictionary website, look up 'hyperbole'.
Your cat is a tiny tiger that lives in your house. I had to pet my kitty when I heard that and call him "Are you my tiny TIGER?! Yes you ARE! YES you are."
Wild horse herd dynamics are as follows: the dominant stallion is not the herd leader, he brings up the rear and fights off predators and fends off challenges from subdominant stallions. The herd leader is the dominant mare who decides where to go and when. She also establishes the social pecking order. This may not be a crucial point for the video but I enjoy imparting accurate information
That's actually an overrated myth. Some wild herds may not have a lead mare, but they will always have a dominant stallion who is in charge and yes, he does bring up the rear and protects the herd, but the lead mare (that is, if they have one) cannot do anything without the consent of the herd stallion. The band can exist without the lead mare, yet they cannot survive without a lead stallion. This is a crucial thing to remember about wild horse herds. The lead stallion is the heart that holds the entire band together, without him, they will scatter and be stolen by other rogue bachelor studs. And people that claim that the herd stallion is the "leader" are absolutely correct. Just speak to any wild horse expert, Mustang enthusiast and photographer. Their dynamics are incredibly fascinating, but I have yet to see a herd without a lead stallion (not including the bachelor herds) and yet there are plenty of wild herds without a lead mare. Lead mare either exists, doesn't or three/four mares share those responsibilities among each other. Lead stallion however, is indispensable and a vital part of the herd survival.
Zebras WERE successfully domesticated by virtually every European country that colonized Africa. They discarded it because the Zebra was not as efficient as the horse, not because it wasn't possible. So that fact kind of blows Grey's theory apart. But if you domesticated Zebras over centuries, the result would be similar to that of any other equine species. The reason this didn't happen in Subsahara Africa is the same reason Europeans and Asians (who also visited Africa centuries ago) never found ANY domesticated animals in Africa; the people who inhabited the region. Subsaharan Africans didn't have the necessary civilization and intelligence to domesticate animals. Look, people have been making excuses for why Africans (and Latin Americans) failed to develop institutions indicative of higher civilization; it boils down to political correctness. But the bottom line is that you can literally domesticate ANY animal (including a human) if you're motivated enough and have the intelligence. The European colonists in SS Africa, for a time, had both the motivation and the intelligence, so they started domesticating the abundant Zebra - before modern transportation allowed them to import and start breeding large numbers of horses and work animals which were stronger, faster, and saved them the work of having to breed generations of Zebra over centuries. The Africans? The Zebra, water buffalo, Jackal (dog), Okapi, Warthog, etc were excellent "raw material" to mold if a civilized (settled) culture could make use of them, and would look very different today if a more intelligent civilization (and people) inhabited the region over millenia (similarly, the "indigenous wild animals" in Europe and Asia would look VERY different today if those regions were originally inhabited by black or brown people. It wasn't for lack of opportunity or potential benefit that black and brown people didn't domesticate ANY animals - it was for lack of the ability to do so.
Grey is a smart guy for the most part, but even he can slip into political correctness, if inadvertently. For one thing, he makes the argument that horses and dogs have a hierarchical structure and thinks this is an "accident". Ummm...no. If they didn't have a controllable or social structure to benefit humans, they'd have been hunted (or slaughtered) into extinction like many other horse and dog breeds in the rest of the civilized world. Literally every farmer and breeder in the world understands that they can control the temperament, social structure, intelligence, etc. of their animals. From shepherd dogs to human parents. A good father, for example, will foster a child and provide incentives and punishments which will motivate (if not coerce) his child to mate with a partner of desired qualities (intelligence, beauty, productivity, etc). There have been beekeepers who've experimented with breeding hives of "laying workers" - which became destructive and unproductive (as expected). What did they do with these dysfunctional hives? They killed them (not that they would have survived long anyway, but better to not let the drones spread bad genetics).
@@Terrekain Fairly sure zebras were TAMED, not DOMESTICATED. Of course that's just what a quick Google search tells me, if you have more evidence I'm glad to hear it.
Domesticating Horses: Horse #1: Oh, that two-legged creature just mounted our leader. Horse #2: I guess that creature is our leader now Domesticating Zebras: Zebra #3451: Oh no! That two-legged creature just captured Marty! Zebra #3452: .... who?
@@ousamadearudesuwa But they don't always live in those big herds. It's mostly a migration thing. So it's entirely possible to identify and catch the lead male
@@danw6014 Yeah dogs don't see us as part of the pack, they know we're different. That's why a dog acts differently when he's playing with another dog instead of a human.
@@henk-3098 actually they can see humans as part of the pack but what I was really getting at is more often than not the dog is the pack leader and not the human. I see it in horses too. They walk all over their owners but I will not allow horses to push on me and I keep the fact that horses are stronger than me a closely guarded secret.
Zebras also lack a strong enough spine to support the weight of an adult male for strenuous riding activities. As such, this may have been an additional factor for them not becoming the horse alternative.
You did not mention that cats are kind of unique in the way they "domesticated" themselves, choosing to live by our side for an easier life and abundance of prey.
@@Omnifarious0 Yup. I used to breed miniature horses for show, and had a Siamese-type with a short tail, that used to jump up on my little stud horse, sit up there like he was surveying his kingdom, LOL. He was kind of a weird horse, though--he had an odd relationship with the wild turkey's living down on our creek bottom. They'd come up at feeding time, try to steal the horses' oats, and my little stallion would put on a big show of running them off--the turkey's would congregate just on the outside of the fence, puff up their feathers and put on a show. Hysterical!
It should be noted that cats do have a sort of family structure; they form communities and colonies and take care of each-other but they don't *hunt* together is a big part of what sets them apart from dogs which, ironically, actually makes them more suitable for domesticated then dogs; they hunt small animals, pests, which humans don't eat, as opposed to dogs which hunt and eat large animals together, which makes them feedable.
Cats are a rather interesting example actually, as they weren't something we purposefully domesticated. The domestication pathway for cats was one whereby cats noticed there were a metric sh*tload of rodents where these bipedal apes lived (not to mention the lack of predators in urban settlements). They then would move in, but due to the limited space, the cats that couldn't tolerate other cats wouldn't survive particularly long. By adapting social behaviour from kitten hood (wild cats are only social as kittens, thus things such as miaowing and kneading became social behaviours in adulthood), they where able to become a social species, that could live in dense cooperative colonies (interesting side note: Cats social behaviour's are rather flexible, with cats living in urban regions tending to be more territorial vis a vis other cats (like they're wild ancestors), whilst rural cats will share a core territory, even working together in that core territory (defence, care of young...), whilst keeping separate hunting grounds) and tolerate humans. And the humans, noticing these tiny tigers made the pest problems go away, would tolerate, even take care of the tiny tigers, leading to a more mutualistic relationship between the two (further side note; due to cats only being semi domesticated, and the social flexibility mentioned above, cats are perfectly comfortable switching between living with humans and wild lifestyles).
Yeah, and thats the reason why domestic cats are the only domesticated animals whose difference from their wilder counterparts is just a change in size. Seriously, look up the wild ancestors of house-cats - african wildcats. You'll be hard pressed to find any difference other than size(and coat colour obviously).
Have you ever heard a mountain lion meow? It's startling the first time you hear it because you are not expecting a "normal" meow from such a large animal.
There is a species of frog called a Microhylid that's developed a symbiotic relationship with multiple large Spider species. These frogs are small enough that they would make a very easy meal for the Spider, but they live in close quarters with each other with the Spider essentially acting like the Frog's bodyguard. Why? Because most of the Frog's natural predators won't mess with the Spider and will stay clear... and the frog eats ants which are a natural predator of spider eggs. They have a symbiotic relationship. The Spider will tolerate and even defend the frog instead of eating it, and the frog earns its keep by 'protecting' the spider's eggs. Depending on what way you look at it, either the frog has a pet spider that it's domesticated and trained to protect it...or the Spider has a pet frog that it's domesticated and trained to protect its eggs. Why am I telling you this? Because that's basically our relationship with cats. We didn't domesticate cats. We basically domesticated each other. The cats realized that life was way easier where the humans were... and we benefited from letting them stick around. They got free food and shelter and we got an animal that hunted and killed vermin.
@Gman I think it's because Wakanda is not a real place, it's part of the Marvel universe with mentions in the comic and a big movie made some years back called Black Panther had lots of blacks making you think it is a real place when it is clearly a piece of fiction. White people, however, are very real with documented history of them existing for thousands of years including Jesus Christ who is definitely white but being black-washed by black Christian's so they can take over the Vatican.
And what fish shall we eat? I know, lets choose the very top of the food chain, the most intensive carnivores we can find, so salmon, tuna & prawns maybe?
@Visual yup & bio-fuel. It's crazy, cause if cows must eat corn, then the whole plants harvested early as silage is what's best for them & gives them the best growth rates, but those subsidies mean it's more profitable for farmers to grow to maturity & throw away the rest of the plant & just keep the kernels as cow food, even though that loses most of the crop's calorie value when fed to cows & messes with their rumen, that's designed to eat grass not grain
The varieties of “corn” that are fed to cattle are usually not especially edible by humans. Also, the cows are usually just finished on maize for their last month, and eat grass for the rest of their lives.
@@Egilhelmson which is the worst way to do it, that month of eating corn instead of grass massively decreases the quality and healthiness of their meat as food.
@Simone LastName asked a clarifying question, and @Michael Kagan politely responded without calling anybody any hurtful names. This is the kind of dynamic that is missing in a lot of UA-cam comment sections. Thank you, @Michael Kagan for being so patient and polite and for being a exemplary human being. @Simone LastName, do not be afraid to ask more questions. You are awesome too 😉.
You hinted at it, but I think it is also important that they have many offspring. Not just a short reproductive cycle (though that helps) but many offspring over their lifetime. This gives you many chances to find the best one and speeds up the artificial selection pressures.
He didn't hint at it, he directly stated it. He said they need to be "fecund" which means "extremely fertile and able to produce offspring in abundance"
CGP Grey: You're missing something. The current domestication of wild foxes. So far, 90 generations and the project is still going. Lots of implications about domesticating "wild" species we might find useful.
@Chris Kibodeaux That's how they get you. They pretend to be cute and dumb. But in reality, they're masterminds that get the stupid humans to serve them.
1:07 "because their day job is *murder*" caught me by surprise and made me laugh so hard. Note to self: domesticate the animals that don't "moonlight in murder." 🤣
Speaking as someone who has chickens, they're 100% not wrong. That's literally the easiest way to manage a flock, especially if you have birds who are of a breed that is typically more aggressive than your average fluffy layer breed. If the dominant rooster respects you, so will the rest of the flock. My current dominant rooster begs for chin scratches, so I'd say we're good.
@@cypheri1339 - The roosters didn't respect me, when I was a little kid collecting eggs for my grandparents. I was scared, but they didn't actually peck or scratch me. But they put on a pretty big show of toughness.
+Philip Stuckey There is a cat in the house I live in, I am literally the only person that can pet it. And even then, it will swat me if I stop petting. Crazy buggers.
"Herbivores that aren't picky" Shows Koala, one of the only ones that feed on the worst source of energy and that can die of hunger if the leaves are on the ground because they don't recognize it as food when not on the tree.
Such a great line lol... I guess they fall into the "honey badger" category of animal that are only willing to interact with humans when they're actively trying to maul them :D
This is the actual reason. Zebra's have a pretty similar social structure to horses, stallions compete for mares in the same way and, outside of migration, they spend time in small family groups. So yeah, they are just mean as all hell. They evolved to fight off lions, hyenas and crocs. The worst thing horses had to worry about was the occasional pack of wolves.
There was this indian kid that was being followed by a tiger. He walked backwards to his village while facing the tiger directly. Most predators won't risk getting hurt during a hunt because it may cost them their life, SO THIS BIGASS ORANGE CAT WAS AFRAID OF GETTING HURT BY A DAMN, STUPIDLY WEAK HUMAN CUB. So don't mind that much what your cat is afraid of, it could be worse.
Shay Inman of Roanoke, VA, bought a zebra from someone in Texas. She has been training horses for a long time and although she has gotten her zebra named Joey to be ridden for a short time, that is all. She said Joey has been the toughest to train.
john wick "Family" animals, such as chickens, follow the strongest one in their herd, since we're, human, are the strongest one in their herd (and with the fact that we are feeding them), we are the "Top Chicken"
I think leaving out the chemical process by which pop tarts are made is just ridiculous. I mean I'm not a vegetarian but there's no way that pop tarts and naturally grown fruit are the same thing lmao.
This scientist who studied cat evolution said,"My cat sleep quiet soundly with dedicated canine predator, and two hundred pound primate walking by. No wild cat would ever do that. My cat is fully domesticated."
Yes, cats are about as domestic as spiders. Humans never tried to domesticate or tame them. They just walked into humans' houses and humans said: "You're cute and you take care of mice and moths! OK, you can stay!". And they still do that. I know of a few feral cats who just walked into a house and the humans welcomed them to stay.
In most part of the world cats don't live in houses, they co exist in human settlements and keep a healthy distance, human tolerate them because they intend no harm.
In Finland under Swedish rule the Swedes outlawed moose riding, because a crazy Finn riding a moose was impossible for the police to catch. True story.
@AmericanToastman - you think the plant industry is any better!? The only thing that makes it 'better' is that we can make ourselves feel less guilty about it by assuming plants have no thoughts and feelings... (And then that murdering something that has no feelings somehow makes it OK) Agriculture in general is mechanised mass murder. But of course, that's inevitable because the underlying reality is... food is murder. To eat, is to kill. To live, is to eat. Ergo, to live is to kill.
"It's remarkable to think that from thousands BC until the telegraph, a dude on a horse was the best internet available." Can't help but imagine people seeing a messager in the horizon and screaming, "LOOK! FOUR BARS OF WIFI!"
The dog hierarchy actually doesn't depend on "alphas" though that term is used prolifically. The term was originally coined by a dude who turned around and realized he was wrong and tried to correct the concept he originally shared, but people were already crazy over the idea of "alpha wolves" and such and didn't listen. Canine hierarchies are more so FAMILY hierarchies. So to be the "alpha dog" means you take the role of the parent dog. You are the one providing food and protection and positive attention. Even better than being an "alpha," you get to have your dog literally seeing you as mommy/daddy. Cats on the other hand don't keep a social structure based on families in that way. Mother cats will actively kick out their kittens once they reach a certain age and will even move to a new territory if the kittens don't go far enough away. They will be social with one another in more of a friendship sense, which is why you will sometimes see whole groups of feral cats in certain areas, and why cats can have good relationships with humans. But, like with human friendships, cats do CHOOSE and trust must be developed. You can't just go to any random person and say "you're my new best friend" and have them be cool with it. Same with cats. It takes time and consistent positive interactions. Eventually after acceptance, cats WILL care about your well being and (if young enough) will create their own language customized to what YOU respond best to. Cats learn different ways to meow and such based on their humans and what they respond to, so your cat does in fact care and pay attention. They will also reciprocate with food offerings and affection, however the relationship continues to be a bond of mutual respect and trust (which can be broken.) A dog sees their bond with a human as being more of a necessity that can't be abandoned just because of maltreatment (seen in dogs who don't run away from clearly abusive situations) in the same way that packs (family units) are maintained generation after generation and are the life source for canines. They have been able to prove that both cats and dogs can and do love their humans (to whatever extent is most true for them) and form deep attachments, however they way they relate to us is quite different. So when your cat treats you as a stupid cat, know that they do it with love because they chose you to be THEIR stupid cat. And know that when your dog treats you as the parent, they do it with love and choose to place their future in your hands.
“Whereas a cat is a tiny tiger that lives in your house,” CGP Grey says. I laugh, my tiny tiger curled up in my lap as he gently kneads my thigh in his sleep, letting out tiny purrs with each breath.
Born in captivity tigers, so long is not hungry, are like a Giant cat, they cuddle with their carer, the difference is, a cat weights like 15 pounds, a tiger can weight 600 and are the tiger version of the mountain
@@jamiethedinosaur869 at least they know what and what not to eat Also they aren’t the embodiment of 5 year olds Also just clarifying but I actually like dogs too, just pointing out some advantages of cats. But both have advantages and disadvantages so overall neither is better than the other imo
or maybe dogs obey us because they feel they have to because we are their masters. maybe its not much of a choice or maybe its not who knows. also for the record most cats are friendly for some reason they get a bad rep. a wild cat is probably less dangerous than a wild dog. I love cats and dogs
@@patriciusvunkempen102 Any animal can be tamed. Russians repeatedly tamed bears. Coastal Swahilis constantly tamed Giraffes. Domestication is different from being tamed. Even lions can be tamed...
Not really. The only plants that want to be eaten are the ones that spread it's seeds by passing through a digestive system to be fertilized after being defecated. Since we defecate in toilets or holes then plants don't have a chance to grow while we reap their benefits. And besides, we've made so many of their seeds significantly smaller that many of them can't even be planted naturally anymore.
@@janfungusamon4926 Not really. We've limited genetic diversity to have all of them taste the same. It's a very dangerous investment. It's why the gros michel almost went extinct.
I have cats. They live with me and Susan in a nicely sized 8th floor apartment in a City. I am not part of a pack or a herd, I am a littermate. They harass me, yell at me, demand y attention but are always ready to sit on my lap(or chest, or crotch) if they feel I am ill or depressed or stressed. They help my blood pressure, mental health and stress levels without slobbering on me, threatening my neighbors or needing a walk outside. These guys are better than you think...at least to me
That “We’re top chicken” was the most aggresive sentence ever
"I *am* the one who pecks!" - Winnebago White
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heisenberg
It's my favorite part
I really want that to be a t-shirt
Currently suffering from covid and depessed but this is the first sentence to make me chuckle the last several days 😅
A friend of mine works in a zoo. He told me that zebras are responsible for more zookeeper injuries (of varying severity) than most if any other animals, at least in the USA.
"Why did humans never domesticate tigers?"
"Thermodynamics."
And their dayjob. Don't forget trheir dayjob.
@@7shinta7 well humans glorify tigers day jobs
@Harrison Leon
Tigers don't care about fingers, they'll take the jugular, eat your juiciest parts and then leave most of you for scavengers.
@@Broockle Fascinating.........
Cats would eat us if they could.
The misconception is that zebras are a variety of wild horse.
They are definitely a variety of wild donkey.
"A cat is a tiny tiger that lives in your house"
I couldn't have said it better.
I adopted a cat from the shelter. Well it was a feral cat.
Now i have a 18 pound cat that would have no problem murdering me.
Thats y I dont funk with them. No!
My cat is very kind and never hurts anyone. But keeps meowing all day.
And cats are basically solitary animals. They don't live in herds. If one accepts you as a partner, it is because it was the cat's decision, not yours. They also decide when to play, and when to call it off. Some people like them better than dogs because of cats' independent nature.
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You failed to disuade me from war bears
Drew Martin search up wojtek. Wont be disappointed
I don't know if they don't have reproduction issues in captivity but they do check the entire list except for maybe the fact they can crush your skull, a small omnivore elephant perhaps?
The bear will disuade you
*dissuade
Drew Martin yesssss I want war bears
"war bears" sound awesome until your enemy attacks in the dead of winter &that tubby turd is off somewhere, sleepin' on the job
This comment made my evening 😂
Thats why you gotta send all the bears before winter
except in ancient times winter season basically meant fighting is over , try to move your army in winter season , lots of snow , plants not growing fruits , less to hunt , foraging is a nightmare , also winter effecting your soldiers and every body is having shit time so now campaigning in winter is not a good Idea for attacker and defender alike , but war bears in summer will kick most historic army ass all day long
Bears don't actually have to hibernate. They do it, because finding enough food during winter is hard. If you give them food, they'll happily stay awake.
@@illusivec nice fact
I feel like dogs were such an incredible find for domestication. In today's world where dogs are mostly kept just for fun, it's easy for people to forget what they really have to offer- not food or transportation but a dedicated workforce capable of performing complex jobs day-in, day-out, and happily. Watching border collies herd sheep will never not be impressive to me. And even today there are dogs doing vital work in our societies- aiding police and providing medical assistance.
cats are cool too. cats bring you food and other stuff they hunt. for ex, you may notice that cats who hunt birds or mice or even rabbits, will occasionally leave it on your shoes or something.
also, cats are excellent at keeping pests away, thus making the house hold more hygienic. agricultural societies in general love cats, because cats keep rodents away from their crops.
@@itsMe_TheHerpes dogs can do everything but better
@@indian_otaku2388 I love dogs but that's not true. They're much, much worse at taking care of themselves for example.
i mean dogs are still used for a complex workfoce, as a Police Dog, Shepherd dog, Service dogs. see, Service dogs, because of their incredible sense of smell, are even trained to measure your blood sugar level and alert if its go up or down
Some dogs are even bred for meat.
Horses and zebras lookalike but one of them is wearing classic prison costume for a reason.
Good one,good one :))) .I actually giggled at this :D ;) .
I will never look at them the same.
Andrew Lipscomb Nope
Dukker Jammish 😂excellent 😂😂
*Prison uniform
I like to think that we domesticated Horses because someone dared a friend to jump on a horses back and it just worked
So you mean after beer was invented?
Mattias Dahlström
Less beer more *Prehistoric Alcohol*
Nonono.
Guy: "would you like to see my wood carvings tonight? They're in my tent"
Girl: "If you get me a horse and ride it first"
Guy:....!
It’s quite plausible. Rodeo was probably one of the first sports of mankind.
Horses were in fact used for millennia before riding them became their foremost job. Before that they were used to pull things, like chariots. And they were much much smaller in their first, original iteration.
“But you know who’s really top chicken? *We’re top chicken”*
😅
@@EO-jr7li Dude, wtf?
jonathan smith you’re acting offended, when all I did was state facts.
I would totally buy a shirt with that message. This is coming from a vegetarian btw.
A somewhat ominous statement
Turns out there are lots of animals that you *could* domesticate if for some strange reason you wanted to spend the decades doing it. But they never were domesticated or were not until very recently. Belyayev's foxes for example. The process from Wild Fox -> Domesticated Silver Fox took about 20 or so generations. Easily doable in one persons lifetime. History picked Grey Wolves instead.
I like foxes but Grey Wolves would be more useful because of their size.
Foxes are domesticated in the 20th century. It's a time when we had enough technology and resources to capture any kind of animal. When we were hunter-gatherers, we didn't have the technology to trap any significant number of fast-moving animals which we cannot outrun. Also, wolves weren't trapped by humans and tamed, they too just happened to follow us like cats, but, because they were social animals, they trusted us more and were eventually domesticated, foxes aren't as brave as wolves to follow humans, and they also aren't as social as wolves to be domesticated by Hunter-gatherers. With today's technology, we can even domesticate Tigers and Lions, we just need to take some Tigers or Lions from Zoo, make them socialise with humans from an early age and make the friendlier Tigers breed with eachother and do that for a couple hundred years. You'll have Domestic Tigers and Lions. Although, I think Lions would become domesticated before Tigers, simply because of their social nature. We cannot expect Hunter-gatherers to be able to do the same things.
Kitsune may disagree.
We could domesticate any animal with enough time, technology and breeding, but this video is about what prehistoric humans were capable of doing.
@@user-pakshibhithi10 foxes follow humies all the time, they know that if they act all cute, we'll feed them
Favorite quotes:
"WE'RE TOP CHICKEN"
"The cat is a tiny tiger that lives in your house"
+TheJwb7111 "Obviously catching a carnivore is a bad idea anyway because their day job is MURDER..."
SAME
+TheJwb7111 I literally LOLed when he said "We're top chicken".
+OmegaShanic Sneaking up on a gazelle rhymes with LOL.
+TheJwb7111 this video is so quotable!
"zebra are bastards." -CGP Grey
Fuck off. :(
Quizzical Zebra hey man, just restating.
"We're top chicken" -CGP grey
"Pain In The Ass Animal"
More like "Pain In The Ass Ass"
+TheParadox1010 Yeabest Part😂😂😂😂
That’s why in Arabic zebras are called “حمار وحشي" meaning “savage donkey”
fitting and on point.
no it means "Demon donkey"
either way it's great
Closer to wild but yeah still correct
I’m a savage
The zebra/horse contrast is especially interesting if you also talk about the other domesticated equine. Asses generally don't fit the "family friendly" or "friendly" categories - they are usually solitary and they're notorious for being stubborn, especially when feral - yet domesticated asses, aka donkeys, still happened.
yeah and zebras were actualy tamed and somehwat domesticated by german colonial officials during the 19th century
@@patriciusvunkempen102 no they actually weren’t some what domesticated by German officers
Excuse me, as a pony I can assure you zebras are really different. We have freindship, harmony, built castles for our princess while they still have not found out how to even build a bridge not to get aten by crocodiles. Or lions.
Stop trying to make domesticated zebra happen; it's not going to happen.😉
I have access to old black and white pictures of zebras pulling carts in South Africa will make a video soon
"A dude on a horse was the best internet at the time."
Yep, and having a horse back then was like going from dial-up to broadband.
And that's how we use them to measure engine output, Horse Power!
@@khaledchowdhury9220 dial up was a way of internet that used phone lines, and if someone was on the phone, you couldn't use the internet.
To be fair, a dude in a truck is the highest bandwidth internet available overland, assuming you fill the truck with large hard disks. *TERRIBLE* ping, but absurdly high bandwidth.
No it wasn't ... Pigeons carrying letters were.
Crazy to think there are still people alive who were born when horses were still a very common mode of transportation. Can you imagine what a pain it would be to have to keep and maintain horses just to go anywhere? I live in a suburb where everything I need is within a 10-15 minute drive, but that’s a heckuva long way to walk. It’s just so weird that we are only a few generations removed from that. Especially when horses were it for all the thousands of years before then.
CGP Grey: **long explanation about dogs being the best pet**
Me as a cat person: **waiting impatiently for the explanation of cats**
CGP Grey: whereas a cat is a tiny tiger that lives in your house
Me: ok i'll take that
Yeah, me too lol!! Cats rule
Animal rules
Kinda cool with a tiny tiger tbh.
D O G S ! ! !
Though to be fair cats were simply pest-contollers that, to better survive around humans, they had to become friendly. Which is an unusual trend in domestication.
There’s an alternate reality where ostriches are the main way of transport, and I want to live there
yes
Me too
@Are You Going To Do The 'Ora Ora' Thing? you make it sounds like you have ridden an ostrich... or have you?
Chocobos in final fantasy
@Godlysunfury , dont forget to mention about nanobots we added their blood.
"The Russian Farm-Fox Experiment is the best known experimental study in animal domestication. By subjecting a population of foxes to selection for tameness alone, Dimitry Belyaev generated foxes that possessed a suite of characteristics that mimicked those found across domesticated species."
I don't think they're domesticated
@@zeff8820 they have been changed for better human use although not perfectly yet.
@@zeff8820 they aren't fully domesticated but they're a lot more tame than similar tame foxes in America. The domesticated Russian fox has more dog traits such as droopier ears and more fur variation.
They're not as domesticated as the dog, but the point of the research is to understand how domestication worked.
Even their appearance began to change and they started to look more like dogs. It was not done deliberately. Amazing how nature develops new species.
@@Cissy2cute when the survival pressure of camouflage dissapears, domesticated animals all have very different colours from the wild ones, donkeys and dromedaries being exceptions.
"You've got to be kidding, elephants, there's no time for this"
-CGP Grey
Wait, when humans start becoming immortal, they can start domesticating elephants?
And now I'm imagining a fantasy setting where elves have domesticated elephants
@@Deathnotefan97 How about a fantasy setting where elves have domesticated HUMANS?
@@TracinyaLachance Humans are too stupid and high maintenance for elves to bother domesticating them, they'd get a much better return out of elephants
Maybe the Dwarves would be up to the task of domesticating humans?
But a beautiful bonsai tree needs dozens of years to shape.......
There is one misconception about domestication and breeding: Most people don't go "oh, this animal has great genes, I will breed it with that animal over there."
Most breeding that happens isn't selecting animals with desirable traits but rather culling animals with undesirable traits. When winter comes and you decide, which part of your herd to butcher, you obviously choose to get rid of the problem animals rather than the well-behaved, healthy ones. And that's usually the biggest player in livestock genetics.
That and breeding control. Most domestic herds only have a handful of males who we adore to breed, and the rest are castrated. To the point where the English language actually has three separate words for pretty much every kind of barnyard animal, a word for the male, a word for the female, and a word for castrated males.
Stallion, mare, gelding
Bull, cow, ox
Boar, sow, barrow
Billy, nanny, wether
Ram, ewe, wether
Rooster, hen, (it's impossible to castrate a rooster)
@@Great_Olaf5 i always thought oxen were a seperate species from cattle
@@wildstarfish3786 Nope, just castrated bulls. I was surprised too.
@@Great_Olaf5 42 years old and i finally find out what an Ox is, thank you!
@@BlameAmes No problem.
Dogs are a machine that turns steak into... *Friendship!!*
Well, doggos are omnivores :P
And they can do quite alot
-emotion support
-hunt
-slead dogs
And more stuff
.
Though I'm personally a cat person
cat kook our dog loved lentels.
@@mslightbulb lentels?
You do not want to go to china
@@CapyMartinBara I don't like China
"A cat is a tiny tiger that lives in your house"
...Yes, actually. Although I will note that they _do_ count as domesticated because of how modern cats were selectively bred for looks.
Who domesticated whom?
Domesticated - brought under control in order to provide food, power, or company - able or willing to do cleaning, cooking, and other jobs and to take care of offspring 🙂
@@johnbox271 Cats were domesticated to do an important job - hunt rats and other vermin trying to eat stored food. They are definitely less friendly towards humans than dogs, but they still have been bred to be more friendly than a wildcat.
*_Everybody gangsta till the Human seizes the title of top chicken_*
"Their dayjob is MURDER."
Ok... that alone earned my like.
Murder is when you kill your own species. So you liked an inaccuracy.
@@mirsad96 keep being a pedantic bitch
1. Yes, because it was funny. 2. That's not the only definition of murder (check Merriam-Websters). 3. Sometimes they do kill they're own species. 4. While you're on the dictionary website, look up 'hyperbole'.
Your cat is a tiny tiger that lives in your house. I had to pet my kitty when I heard that and call him "Are you my tiny TIGER?! Yes you ARE! YES you are."
@@ragingfurball5419 it's their not they're
"A cat is a tiny tiger that lives in your house"
"Zebras are bastards"
...and a Tiger's day job is murder
Wow ok r00d
"We're top CHICKEN."
which is why our tiny tigers don't mind eating us if we happen do die in proximity to them.
Wild horse herd dynamics are as follows: the dominant stallion is not the herd leader, he brings up the rear and fights off predators and fends off challenges from subdominant stallions. The herd leader is the dominant mare who decides where to go and when. She also establishes the social pecking order. This may not be a crucial point for the video but I enjoy imparting accurate information
Thank you for pointing this out. It annoys me when people claim that the herd stallion is the leader.
That's actually an overrated myth. Some wild herds may not have a lead mare, but they will always have a dominant stallion who is in charge and yes, he does bring up the rear and protects the herd, but the lead mare (that is, if they have one) cannot do anything without the consent of the herd stallion. The band can exist without the lead mare, yet they cannot survive without a lead stallion. This is a crucial thing to remember about wild horse herds. The lead stallion is the heart that holds the entire band together, without him, they will scatter and be stolen by other rogue bachelor studs. And people that claim that the herd stallion is the "leader" are absolutely correct. Just speak to any wild horse expert, Mustang enthusiast and photographer. Their dynamics are incredibly fascinating, but I have yet to see a herd without a lead stallion (not including the bachelor herds) and yet there are plenty of wild herds without a lead mare. Lead mare either exists, doesn't or three/four mares share those responsibilities among each other. Lead stallion however, is indispensable and a vital part of the herd survival.
I stand corrected
@@dingusdingus2152 no
"Zebras are bastards" - CGP Gray
How does a zebra, orphan, son of a -bleep- and a Scotsman,
I want him to go catch an alpha wolf and watch as its family automatically makes him its leader.
Zebras WERE successfully domesticated by virtually every European country that colonized Africa. They discarded it because the Zebra was not as efficient as the horse, not because it wasn't possible. So that fact kind of blows Grey's theory apart. But if you domesticated Zebras over centuries, the result would be similar to that of any other equine species. The reason this didn't happen in Subsahara Africa is the same reason Europeans and Asians (who also visited Africa centuries ago) never found ANY domesticated animals in Africa; the people who inhabited the region. Subsaharan Africans didn't have the necessary civilization and intelligence to domesticate animals. Look, people have been making excuses for why Africans (and Latin Americans) failed to develop institutions indicative of higher civilization; it boils down to political correctness. But the bottom line is that you can literally domesticate ANY animal (including a human) if you're motivated enough and have the intelligence. The European colonists in SS Africa, for a time, had both the motivation and the intelligence, so they started domesticating the abundant Zebra - before modern transportation allowed them to import and start breeding large numbers of horses and work animals which were stronger, faster, and saved them the work of having to breed generations of Zebra over centuries. The Africans? The Zebra, water buffalo, Jackal (dog), Okapi, Warthog, etc were excellent "raw material" to mold if a civilized (settled) culture could make use of them, and would look very different today if a more intelligent civilization (and people) inhabited the region over millenia (similarly, the "indigenous wild animals" in Europe and Asia would look VERY different today if those regions were originally inhabited by black or brown people. It wasn't for lack of opportunity or potential benefit that black and brown people didn't domesticate ANY animals - it was for lack of the ability to do so.
Grey is a smart guy for the most part, but even he can slip into political correctness, if inadvertently. For one thing, he makes the argument that horses and dogs have a hierarchical structure and thinks this is an "accident". Ummm...no. If they didn't have a controllable or social structure to benefit humans, they'd have been hunted (or slaughtered) into extinction like many other horse and dog breeds in the rest of the civilized world. Literally every farmer and breeder in the world understands that they can control the temperament, social structure, intelligence, etc. of their animals. From shepherd dogs to human parents. A good father, for example, will foster a child and provide incentives and punishments which will motivate (if not coerce) his child to mate with a partner of desired qualities (intelligence, beauty, productivity, etc). There have been beekeepers who've experimented with breeding hives of "laying workers" - which became destructive and unproductive (as expected). What did they do with these dysfunctional hives? They killed them (not that they would have survived long anyway, but better to not let the drones spread bad genetics).
@@Terrekain Fairly sure zebras were TAMED, not DOMESTICATED. Of course that's just what a quick Google search tells me, if you have more evidence I'm glad to hear it.
Domesticating Horses:
Horse #1: Oh, that two-legged creature just mounted our leader.
Horse #2: I guess that creature is our leader now
Domesticating Zebras:
Zebra #3451: Oh no! That two-legged creature just captured Marty!
Zebra #3452: .... who?
That reference 😂 now i understand they do not give a crap about each other
One of the best references around
Except Zebra's *do* have top males within the group. They form the same families as horses.
@@PavarottiAardvark but because the top males live in the same herd, hell Marty will not care if Jack gets eaten.
@@ousamadearudesuwa But they don't always live in those big herds. It's mostly a migration thing. So it's entirely possible to identify and catch the lead male
"But you know who's really top chicken?
WE'RE TOP CHICKEN."
When I watched dogs lead their owners around I don't think that idea is as true as it should be.
@@danw6014 Yeah dogs don't see us as part of the pack, they know we're different. That's why a dog acts differently when he's playing with another dog instead of a human.
@@henk-3098 actually they can see humans as part of the pack but what I was really getting at is more often than not the dog is the pack leader and not the human. I see it in horses too. They walk all over their owners but I will not allow horses to push on me and I keep the fact that horses are stronger than me a closely guarded secret.
When was the last time you fought a rooster? Chickens go absolutely insane when they see blood and try to kill the one bleeding..True fact.
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Zebras also lack a strong enough spine to support the weight of an adult male for strenuous riding activities. As such, this may have been an additional factor for them not becoming the horse alternative.
“Because zebras, are bastards” is my favorite Grey quote
They live to kick and bite, they are a PITAA [pain in the ass animal]
Idk that WE ARE TOP CHICKEN comment had me dying
@@jermainebrown8604 same
That quote was at the same video as "WE'RE TOP CHICKEN".
@@katevgrady Just deal with it :] We would be the best footballers though, but instead of a ball, we kick lions.
Fluffification, day job is murder, hippos hold the murder high score, so eager to breed it gets it wrong sometimes
So many gems in this
We're top chicken.
Try sneaking up on a gazelle,
Rhymes with LOL.
"Whereas a cat is a tiny tiger that lives in your house"
You've got to be kidding, elephants, we don't have time for this
*"We're top chicken"*
@@mariaagustinaferrero2333 Such quality lines, I will be quoting this in my daily life out of context
You did not mention that cats are kind of unique in the way they "domesticated" themselves, choosing to live by our side for an easier life and abundance of prey.
Carl Alm or how rats and mice are the only animals domesticated solely for experimentation.
@@pisces2569 like rabbits, some people actually keep them as pets.
Cats will latch on to any friendly large mammal in the vicinity. There are a few stories about horses and cats having a bond.
@@Omnifarious0 Yup. I used to breed miniature horses for show, and had a Siamese-type with a short tail, that used to jump up on my little stud horse, sit up there like he was surveying his kingdom, LOL. He was kind of a weird horse, though--he had an odd relationship with the wild turkey's living down on our creek bottom. They'd come up at feeding time, try to steal the horses' oats, and my little stallion would put on a big show of running them off--the turkey's would congregate just on the outside of the fence, puff up their feathers and put on a show. Hysterical!
We got cats because mice wanted to eat our spare food
And cats wanted to eat mice and started being ok with being around humans
It should be noted that cats do have a sort of family structure; they form communities and colonies and take care of each-other but they don't *hunt* together is a big part of what sets them apart from dogs which, ironically, actually makes them more suitable for domesticated then dogs; they hunt small animals, pests, which humans don't eat, as opposed to dogs which hunt and eat large animals together, which makes them feedable.
"Sheep weren't always this fluffy. We fluffified them".... that part is solid gold 🤣
Literally the first line
Haven’t you heard of fluffification before?
It's funny af😂
It’s when a pornographic thespian is prepared for his scene by stimulation of his member to achieve tumescence.
Robustus you’re fucked up.
"War bears will not happen"
Poland: *YOU DARE OPPOSE ME MORTAL?*
Man, I was thinking about that historia civilis video
Edit: turns out you were talking about wojtek
Few will understand this gem lol
Haha saw that video earlier
I jst saw the video of the artillery carrying bear 😂
Cannon loader bears are the best
Cats are a rather interesting example actually, as they weren't something we purposefully domesticated. The domestication pathway for cats was one whereby cats noticed there were a metric sh*tload of rodents where these bipedal apes lived (not to mention the lack of predators in urban settlements). They then would move in, but due to the limited space, the cats that couldn't tolerate other cats wouldn't survive particularly long. By adapting social behaviour from kitten hood (wild cats are only social as kittens, thus things such as miaowing and kneading became social behaviours in adulthood), they where able to become a social species, that could live in dense cooperative colonies (interesting side note: Cats social behaviour's are rather flexible, with cats living in urban regions tending to be more territorial vis a vis other cats (like they're wild ancestors), whilst rural cats will share a core territory, even working together in that core territory (defence, care of young...), whilst keeping separate hunting grounds) and tolerate humans. And the humans, noticing these tiny tigers made the pest problems go away, would tolerate, even take care of the tiny tigers, leading to a more mutualistic relationship between the two (further side note; due to cats only being semi domesticated, and the social flexibility mentioned above, cats are perfectly comfortable switching between living with humans and wild lifestyles).
so cats domesticated themselves
so cats domesticated themselves
Yeah, and thats the reason why domestic cats are the only domesticated animals whose difference from their wilder counterparts is just a change in size. Seriously, look up the wild ancestors of house-cats - african wildcats. You'll be hard pressed to find any difference other than size(and coat colour obviously).
Have you ever heard a mountain lion meow? It's startling the first time you hear it because you are not expecting a "normal" meow from such a large animal.
So what you're saying is, Warrior Cats actually has some basis
There is a species of frog called a Microhylid that's developed a symbiotic relationship with multiple large Spider species. These frogs are small enough that they would make a very easy meal for the Spider, but they live in close quarters with each other with the Spider essentially acting like the Frog's bodyguard.
Why? Because most of the Frog's natural predators won't mess with the Spider and will stay clear... and the frog eats ants which are a natural predator of spider eggs.
They have a symbiotic relationship. The Spider will tolerate and even defend the frog instead of eating it, and the frog earns its keep by 'protecting' the spider's eggs. Depending on what way you look at it, either the frog has a pet spider that it's domesticated and trained to protect it...or the Spider has a pet frog that it's domesticated and trained to protect its eggs.
Why am I telling you this? Because that's basically our relationship with cats. We didn't domesticate cats. We basically domesticated each other. The cats realized that life was way easier where the humans were... and we benefited from letting them stick around. They got free food and shelter and we got an animal that hunted and killed vermin.
Hearing about how dogs get personal enjoyment out of being useful to us makes my heart warm
maybe I am dog
In a sort of way it's actually sad because they're "programmed" to be like that.
It's like not having "free will" 😐
@@BioUmano they can have free will as long as it's useful for us. Something along those lines
@@BioUmano you think you have free will? 😂
@@BioUmano they still have preferences, but most of them tend to be like that as a species, so it could be both without one idea denying the other.
Yeah you can try and domesticate us!
lol
this is the best comment ever
+Sneaky Zebra well played!
+Sneaky Zebra ha
+Sneaky Zebra I'd prefer to keep all my fingers.
"Try sneaking up on a gazelle,
Rhymes with LOL."
- *CGP Grey, one of the greatest poets of our time*
No gazelles were stalked in the production of my LOL induced by that statement.
We need t-shirts of that
@Gman I think it's because Wakanda is not a real place, it's part of the Marvel universe with mentions in the comic and a big movie made some years back called Black Panther had lots of blacks making you think it is a real place when it is clearly a piece of fiction. White people, however, are very real with documented history of them existing for thousands of years including Jesus Christ who is definitely white but being black-washed by black Christian's so they can take over the Vatican.
@@ravioli9727 Can't tell if this is trolling or not lmao
@@ravioli9727 WHOOOOSH
CGP Grey: "Herbivores should eat something that's everywhere that you CAN'T eat."
Americans: *Feed cows corn.*
And what fish shall we eat? I know, lets choose the very top of the food chain, the most intensive carnivores we can find, so salmon, tuna & prawns maybe?
@Visual yup & bio-fuel. It's crazy, cause if cows must eat corn, then the whole plants harvested early as silage is what's best for them & gives them the best growth rates, but those subsidies mean it's more profitable for farmers to grow to maturity & throw away the rest of the plant & just keep the kernels as cow food, even though that loses most of the crop's calorie value when fed to cows & messes with their rumen, that's designed to eat grass not grain
The varieties of “corn” that are fed to cattle are usually not especially edible by humans. Also, the cows are usually just finished on maize for their last month, and eat grass for the rest of their lives.
@@Egilhelmson none of that is true
@@Egilhelmson which is the worst way to do it, that month of eating corn instead of grass massively decreases the quality and healthiness of their meat as food.
"We're top chicken" - CGP Grey, 2016.
"If it's in a circus, it's tamed"
I dunno - I'm not sure I've seen a clown I'd consider "tame"...
@@sxlstzce r/whoooosh
Don't forget Pacifist J and Fluffy 2 Dope, founding members of TCP.
You won't get it
They wouldn't risk having it in a circus near a crowd if it weren't tamed or domesticated.
Pennywise wasn't in a circus that explains a lot.
"try sneaking up on a gazelle,
rhymes with *L O L*"
- Grey, 2016
Yes
Idk why but that “sure” makes me laugh lol
@Simone LastName asked a clarifying question, and @Michael Kagan politely responded without calling anybody any hurtful names. This is the kind of dynamic that is missing in a lot of UA-cam comment sections. Thank you, @Michael Kagan for being so patient and polite and for being a exemplary human being. @Simone LastName, do not be afraid to ask more questions. You are awesome too 😉.
@@simonelastname5182 i still don't get it.
You hinted at it, but I think it is also important that they have many offspring. Not just a short reproductive cycle (though that helps) but many offspring over their lifetime. This gives you many chances to find the best one and speeds up the artificial selection pressures.
He didn't hint at it, he directly stated it. He said they need to be "fecund" which means "extremely fertile and able to produce offspring in abundance"
For the record, if you make a shirt that says WE'RE TOP CHICKEN I will buy it.
Same
WE'RE TOP CHICKEN, that needs to be on a shirt
Guazuru yeaaas
haggis22 I was just thinking that too.
me too lol I was laughing so hard
sorry..can someone explain what does that means actually?
The chickens fight amongst themselves to see who is the strongest, the top chicken, but in reality humans are top chicken.
4:54 Incorrect. A cat is a tiny tiger that lets you live in its house.
CGP Grey: You're missing something. The current domestication of wild foxes. So far, 90 generations and the project is still going. Lots of implications about domesticating "wild" species we might find useful.
@Chris Kibodeaux that's what your cat wants you to think
@Chris Kibodeaux you are being played!
@Chris Kibodeaux That's how they get you. They pretend to be cute and dumb. But in reality, they're masterminds that get the stupid humans to serve them.
@Chris Kibodeaux Mate, chill, don't gotta get your panties in a twist over this
1:07 "because their day job is *murder*" caught me by surprise and made me laugh so hard. Note to self: domesticate the animals that don't "moonlight in murder." 🤣
We're top chicken needs to be on a shirt
Yes
Speaking as someone who has chickens, they're 100% not wrong. That's literally the easiest way to manage a flock, especially if you have birds who are of a breed that is typically more aggressive than your average fluffy layer breed. If the dominant rooster respects you, so will the rest of the flock. My current dominant rooster begs for chin scratches, so I'd say we're good.
@@cypheri1339 - The roosters didn't respect me, when I was a little kid collecting eggs for my grandparents. I was scared, but they didn't actually peck or scratch me. But they put on a pretty big show of toughness.
Remember a Chicken is just a small feathered Raptor type of Dinosaur that goes insane when it see blood and will try to kill what ever is bleeding.
@@Delgen1951 thats so true. There ancestor is the T-rex by the way and not the raptor
"cats are tiny tigers that live in your house"
+Philip Stuckey Straight up lost it.
+Philip Stuckey There is a cat in the house I live in, I am literally the only person that can pet it. And even then, it will swat me if I stop petting. Crazy buggers.
Chuck Bowen my cat loves me tho
Chuck Bowen she runs toward people and cuddles with them
Clearly not a cat person, this one 😂
Notable omission: Guinea pigs! They were domesticated as early as 5000 BC in the Andes for food (and they meet the checklist!).
You're right! But I think he may have left them out because he was talking about *large* animals?
Imagine if they could've selectively breed horse sized ones, Incan Guinea Pig calvary!
So, Capybaras?
@@internetmovieguy Still too small. Also too nice.
@@navilluscire2567 DND has Spham, a species of giant space hamsters.
Once I was in a wild strawberry field and I realised that the strawberries were litterally 1 cm in length.
"Herbivores that aren't picky" Shows Koala, one of the only ones that feed on the worst source of energy and that can die of hunger if the leaves are on the ground because they don't recognize it as food when not on the tree.
I think that's what he meant lol
Lmao mate
koalas are retarded
Never forget that koalas are LITERALLY smooth brained.
@Admiral Ackbeard What's that supposed to mean?
I want "We're top chicken!" on a t-shirt.
Same here
you're gonna chicken out and not buy one
Make sure to send me a link when it gets avalible
you know what I want on a tshirt?
"Exploit Family Values"
I want the "a cat is a tiny tiger that lives in your house". That cracked me up.
Horses be like:
"We live in a society..."
Wonder if they are gamers.
Even zebras do
Zebras be like:
"We don't"
Horsiety
5:45 i see you muted the audio for the OG sponsor of the video.
i died at "we're top chicken"
I'M... TOP CHICKEN 0_0
IM TOP CHICKEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He had me at: zebras are bastards
PECK PECK PECK
About 47 T-Rexes Now I know where the phrase "establish the pecking order" came from.
The main takeaway from this video: *We're top chicken!*
All i got was, cats are tiny tigers that live in your house
Zebra's are Bastards
How do you doo, fellow top chicken?
"Because zebras are bastards"
Killed me😂
@@muhammaddawoodakhalwaya313
That's nice
Muhammad Dawood Akhalwaya yes we did see the video
Such a great line lol... I guess they fall into the "honey badger" category of animal that are only willing to interact with humans when they're actively trying to maul them :D
This is the actual reason. Zebra's have a pretty similar social structure to horses, stallions compete for mares in the same way and, outside of migration, they spend time in small family groups. So yeah, they are just mean as all hell. They evolved to fight off lions, hyenas and crocs. The worst thing horses had to worry about was the occasional pack of wolves.
@@hunterG60k oh yeah and the horses are quite capable of fighting off wolves, especially as groups
My dog barking at me to pet him while grey says "dogs live to be useful to us" was excellent comedic timing by both parties
"Carnivores... their day-job is murder" CGP Grey 2016
yeah xD As if humans don't totally murder animals more than any other things ever in the history of earth hahaha
that's just because theirs so many of us to do the killing
Yeah, but plenty of omnivores moonlight in murder
MarI sabel
Our day job is murder too!
David Ndiulor Thats a good line and its true.
Dude you could make like 3 shirts from this video alone.
"Zebra are bastards"
"We're top chicken."
Four F check list
Grim scythes A cat is a tiny tiger that lives in your house
WE'RE Top Chicken!
I need a shirt that says "My dayjob is MURDER"
IK I'm weird
You Forgot “Try Sneaking Up On A Gazelle, Rhymes with lol”
A CAT IS A TINY TIGER THAT LIVES IN YOUR HOUSE LOL
Gladiator in a Suit no because i dont have a cat
True.
Now I want Grey to make a shirt with his avatar and the words “TOP CHICKEN”.
I need the meme I'm Top Chicken to be a thing.
No
+NDAIA Yes!
+NDAIA Or in the form of a t-shirt?
+NDAIA make one via www.reddit.com/r/cgpgreymemes/ we are thinking way ahead of you.
+andythepanhead They really do have a sub for anything, I'm incredibly scared now of all the possibilities
Favorite quotes:
"The pig porkification project,"
"WE'RE TOP CHICKEN,"
"Fu-fecund,"
"The cat is a tiny tiger that lives in your house."
"because Zebras are bastards...in addition to being a pain in the ass animal, they lack a family structure"
Dis Dude: "Cats are tiny tigers that live in your house"
My Cat: Rolls over, exposes her belly and then runs away in fear of our garden birds.
Yes you are right
They're not all going to be *good* at being tigers.
Cats gonna cat. Tigers gonna tiger.
There was this indian kid that was being followed by a tiger. He walked backwards to his village while facing the tiger directly.
Most predators won't risk getting hurt during a hunt because it may cost them their life, SO THIS BIGASS ORANGE CAT WAS AFRAID OF GETTING HURT BY A DAMN, STUPIDLY WEAK HUMAN CUB.
So don't mind that much what your cat is afraid of, it could be worse.
@@Burn_Angel Thats exactly what you should do when facing a tiger that isnt on full rampage mode.
Shay Inman of Roanoke, VA, bought a zebra from someone in Texas.
She has been training horses for a long time and although she has gotten her zebra named Joey to be ridden for a short time, that is all.
She said Joey has been the toughest to train.
“For Zebras there’s no such thing as society”
Gamers: Where do I sign up?
Zebras: we DON'T live in a society
Lol
😂😂😂
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@@arya6085 Wut? :O
Excellent and informative! Well done!
Yeah mmkay.
Fun fact:
Goats and dogs are quite similar to each other.
Yo mama
"we're top chicken" WHY DID I LAUGH SO HARD
Because his tone of voice changed to the appropriate tone
Didnt get the joke.. please enlighten me
john wick "Family" animals, such as chickens, follow the strongest one in their herd, since we're, human, are the strongest one in their herd (and with the fact that we are feeding them), we are the "Top Chicken"
Tiara Uchner lol
It's the pecking order.
The thing I love about the "cats are just tiny tigers that live in your house" bit?
*It's 1000000% correct*
its completely incorrect though
@@Szgerlehater
@@kommandokenny12345 Keep crying
Me and the boys getting out of area 51 knowing how to domesticate zebra
Sayan guria or just being dead, idk 😂
Why do you think I'm going all that way?
if only
You had me at warbears...
Had me at Top Chicken
I lost it at "their day job is MURDER"
I want a warbear
Here you go wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojtek_(bear)
Play kislev.
Apples are as man made as pop tarts... that was really aggressive
Finally someone said it and throw in the fact organic is grown in poo or ground up animals
Also progressive
Truth stings!
I think leaving out the chemical process by which pop tarts are made is just ridiculous. I mean I'm not a vegetarian but there's no way that pop tarts and naturally grown fruit are the same thing lmao.
Shawn Granzow I think it was supposed to be a joke.
¡Gracias!
This scientist who studied cat evolution said,"My cat sleep quiet soundly with dedicated canine predator, and two hundred pound primate walking by. No wild cat would ever do that. My cat is fully domesticated."
But cats domesticated humans...
They have some sort of pack awareness.
@@lordkandar they domesticated themselves rlly
@@lordkandar
It's more like two broke college dudes crashing in a single apartment.
@@heyhoe168 they have some sort of friendliness awareness
Exceptional Grey material. You've killed it...great mix of upbeat, humorous info delivery. Classic Grey stuffs.
I bet Grey is domesticable.
Brady is a zebra. Grey is a horse.
Agreed. I love your videos too by the way. Huge Trek fan.
+Trekspertise Grey is the Zebra of youtubers. He does what he does best, but you can't ride him for shit
Yes, cats are about as domestic as spiders. Humans never tried to domesticate or tame them. They just walked into humans' houses and humans said: "You're cute and you take care of mice and moths! OK, you can stay!". And they still do that. I know of a few feral cats who just walked into a house and the humans welcomed them to stay.
I think thats basically still how the most people get them. "Hey, is that a cat in the house? I guess we own a cat now."
In most part of the world cats don't live in houses, they co exist in human settlements and keep a healthy distance, human tolerate them because they intend no harm.
@@arminius6506 horses and sheep dont live in houses either. Cats hunted rodents and other pests, making them useful animals to keep around.
i keep a spider web in the corner of my room, they eat mosquitos
if i find a spider somewhere else in my room, i move it to the corner
Cats are the most lovable bastards and it’s great
In Finland under Swedish rule the Swedes outlawed moose riding, because a crazy Finn riding a moose was impossible for the police to catch. True story.
carnivores day job: m u r d e r
Human day job: d o m e s t i c m u r d e r
_Oh God_
Domestic exploitation, then murder when it's no longer useful. ;)
@@Suite_annamite spot on, the meat (and animal product) industry is fucked
@AmericanToastman - you think the plant industry is any better!?
The only thing that makes it 'better' is that we can make ourselves feel less guilty about it by assuming plants have no thoughts and feelings...
(And then that murdering something that has no feelings somehow makes it OK)
Agriculture in general is mechanised mass murder.
But of course, that's inevitable because the underlying reality is...
food is murder.
To eat, is to kill.
To live, is to eat.
Ergo, to live is to kill.
@@KuraIthys Plants scream so it's okay we can eat it
look at me.
LOOK AT ME!
I am the top chicken now.
Chiken: *BEHKA?!?!*
Lmao
😂😂😂
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Look down, look up, I’m on a horse
"It's remarkable to think that from thousands BC until the telegraph, a dude on a horse was the best internet available."
Can't help but imagine people seeing a messager in the horizon and screaming, "LOOK! FOUR BARS OF WIFI!"
+porchelana321 Bars or hooves?
Yes.
porchelana321
Of course that means that on the equinet everyone was a brony.
+porchelana321 But imagine how much cooler it would be if we domesticated a different animal. "LOOK! FOUR BEARS OF WIFI!"
Sad Horse
Honey Badernet, always four bars ALL THE TIME!
Submissive and feedable
"We fluffified them" - CGP Grey, 2016
this channel has some good quotes
Al Muhajir
^^^
WE ARE TOP CHICKEN.
Ľubomír Kompiš 4:36
We need more Fluffy Pone. Fluffy Pone is love. Accept it.
Cats treat us as stupid cats
Dogs treat us as smart alpha dogs
The dog hierarchy actually doesn't depend on "alphas" though that term is used prolifically. The term was originally coined by a dude who turned around and realized he was wrong and tried to correct the concept he originally shared, but people were already crazy over the idea of "alpha wolves" and such and didn't listen. Canine hierarchies are more so FAMILY hierarchies. So to be the "alpha dog" means you take the role of the parent dog. You are the one providing food and protection and positive attention. Even better than being an "alpha," you get to have your dog literally seeing you as mommy/daddy. Cats on the other hand don't keep a social structure based on families in that way. Mother cats will actively kick out their kittens once they reach a certain age and will even move to a new territory if the kittens don't go far enough away. They will be social with one another in more of a friendship sense, which is why you will sometimes see whole groups of feral cats in certain areas, and why cats can have good relationships with humans. But, like with human friendships, cats do CHOOSE and trust must be developed. You can't just go to any random person and say "you're my new best friend" and have them be cool with it. Same with cats. It takes time and consistent positive interactions. Eventually after acceptance, cats WILL care about your well being and (if young enough) will create their own language customized to what YOU respond best to. Cats learn different ways to meow and such based on their humans and what they respond to, so your cat does in fact care and pay attention. They will also reciprocate with food offerings and affection, however the relationship continues to be a bond of mutual respect and trust (which can be broken.) A dog sees their bond with a human as being more of a necessity that can't be abandoned just because of maltreatment (seen in dogs who don't run away from clearly abusive situations) in the same way that packs (family units) are maintained generation after generation and are the life source for canines. They have been able to prove that both cats and dogs can and do love their humans (to whatever extent is most true for them) and form deep attachments, however they way they relate to us is quite different. So when your cat treats you as a stupid cat, know that they do it with love because they chose you to be THEIR stupid cat. And know that when your dog treats you as the parent, they do it with love and choose to place their future in your hands.
Basically dogs see as perfect and cats see us for what we really are...
Ya
Beacuzz yay dogs ftw
PreposterousWorld good comment. I enjoyed reading that :)
"...a dude on a horse was the best internet available."
- a dude on the internet
-a dude on a weirdly fast invisible horse
Zebra:
"Doctor, I think I'm a little hoarse"
Doctor:
"Well, you look the right size to me"
“Whereas a cat is a tiny tiger that lives in your house,” CGP Grey says. I laugh, my tiny tiger curled up in my lap as he gently kneads my thigh in his sleep, letting out tiny purrs with each breath.
And it is tiny enough that it does not see human babies/children as viable pray.
And then he starts clawing and biting you for no reason whenever his mood randomly shifts. See?
Born in captivity tigers, so long is not hungry, are like a Giant cat, they cuddle with their carer, the difference is, a cat weights like 15 pounds, a tiger can weight 600 and are the tiger version of the mountain
@@jamiethedinosaur869 at least they know what and what not to eat
Also they aren’t the embodiment of 5 year olds
Also just clarifying but I actually like dogs too, just pointing out some advantages of cats. But both have advantages and disadvantages so overall neither is better than the other imo
@@orcabeast8006 I actually like both cats and dogs, and I have one of each.
If only we domesticated bears, we would have live teddy bears by now.
i mean o guess we can do that with pandas with a little genetic engineering
Or care bears
I don't approve of that.
Yeah until the great bear uprising and we get the Berenstain Bear Universe.
Domesticate them into Ewoks. Two more hands to work, cute, fluffy and only at times cannibalistic
"Obviously, catching a carnivore is a bad idea anyway because their day job is murder.". That killed me. 😁😏😂
Thus proving the point - over your dead body! ; )
At least you got to die laughing, ah? xD
That was supposed to happen
Haha it definitely wasnt a dull joke but rather a *sharp* one
Can I get to 100 subscribers with this my content?
“We’re top chicken” says man who never owned a bastard rooster.
"Dogs live to help us, and they love it, even if its just playing dead.
.....
Cats are just tigers that live in your house."
Marcel Bendaly true
or maybe dogs obey us because they feel they have to because we are their masters. maybe its not much of a choice or maybe its not who knows. also for the record most cats are friendly for some reason they get a bad rep. a wild cat is probably less dangerous than a wild dog. I love cats and dogs
It's been scientifically proven that a dog's brain releases dopamine when around their master.
Obviously Grey is not a cat person. The tiny tigers let us live in their house.
Michael Henry That's DOPE get it? Haha... Ok I'll leave.
Most people think of zebras as being wild horses, when really they're demon donkeys
And yet donkeys were domesticated.
and yet we germans tamed them and rode them during the 19th century in our colonys....
That's a really apt description. Zebras are bastards.
@@patriciusvunkempen102 Any animal can be tamed. Russians repeatedly tamed bears. Coastal Swahilis constantly tamed Giraffes. Domestication is different from being tamed. Even lions can be tamed...
I feel less bad for them being eaten by lions and crocs then.
When you think about it, plants domesticated us. And better yet, made us do all the work
you're right
Not really. The only plants that want to be eaten are the ones that spread it's seeds by passing through a digestive system to be fertilized after being defecated. Since we defecate in toilets or holes then plants don't have a chance to grow while we reap their benefits. And besides, we've made so many of their seeds significantly smaller that many of them can't even be planted naturally anymore.
I think It was a symbiotic relationship.
@@janfungusamon4926 Not really. We've limited genetic diversity to have all of them taste the same. It's a very dangerous investment. It's why the gros michel almost went extinct.
@@OatmealTheCrazy well it isnt symbiotic anymore but it used to be right? When we didnt have agriculture.
I have cats. They live with me and Susan in a nicely sized 8th floor apartment in a City. I am not part of a pack or a herd, I am a littermate. They harass me, yell at me, demand y attention but are always ready to sit on my lap(or chest, or crotch) if they feel I am ill or depressed or stressed. They help my blood pressure, mental health and stress levels without slobbering on me, threatening my neighbors or needing a walk outside.
These guys are better than you think...at least to me