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CronoDAS comments on Stupid Questions August 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: CronoDAS 04 August 2015 02:32:15AM *  2 points [-]

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.)

Comment author: polymathwannabe 11 August 2015 12:50:56PM 1 point [-]

I have always wondered why humans never turned bears into house pets.

Comment author: Lumifer 11 August 2015 03:04:39PM 3 points [-]

They eat too much.

Comment author: tut 11 August 2015 01:33:28PM 2 points [-]

We wouldn't have kept cats either if they didn't naturally hang around our granaries helping us with our rodent problems.