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Is it possible to tame an octopus? Could humanity over several generations tame octopuses and breed them into work animals?
Octopuses are solitary animals, whereas most working animals are social. Which leads to another interesting question - is it possible to breed octopuses to become social animals?
Dunno - it worked with house cats, which are far more social than their wild ancestors, although not as social as lions. (Wild cats will not share territory with others, even when food is plentiful. Feral cats will live in feral cat colonies around food sources.)
I have always wondered why humans never turned bears into house pets.
They eat too much.
We wouldn't have kept cats either if they didn't naturally hang around our granaries helping us with our rodent problems.