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Untamable Animals

We all had fantasies when we were children: riding to school on your very own zebra; playing with the manatee living in your swimming pool. As it happens, these daydreams were even further from reality than you thought. There are many animals that, try as we might, humans have never been able to domesticate. But that hasn’t stopped us from giving it a go.

For an animal to be good candidate for domestication, it should have the following six qualities: a flexible diet; a fast growth rate; an ability to breed in captivity; a pleasant disposition; a calm temperament; and a social hierarchy that humans can dominate. These qualities help ensure that the animals aren’t dangerous to be around, that we can control their breeding, that they won’t run away, and that they’ll respect humans as their bosses.

Here are just 10 failed attempts to tame the untamable.

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