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City Raccoons Are Evolving to Look More Like Pets (www.scientificamerican.com)

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

It's a popular theory about why dogs were domesticated so much earlier than everything else. Wolves have a remarkably similar lifestyle to human hunter gatherers, and so early dogs could live either in parallel or in close proximity as conditions demanded without the humans actively running a program, like we did with pigs or horses. In some places, semi-feral dogs are still a common sight.