From: pete on
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.

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pete