From: pete on 20 Jul 2010 08:02 Archimedes Plutonium wrote: > Maybe I can answer my own question from rereading the above and with > some experience > with animals as pets. The geese or ducks have a huge imprinting > behaviour, and so after the > wolf dog domestication and after the cat domestication for eating by > early humans, I suspect > a bird species like geese or ducks were third in line. Chickens do not > hang around enough, That depends on whether or not you're keeping your chickens for the purpose of eating their eggs. > so I think chickens were further down the line in > domestication. -- pete
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