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There was a video being shared by someone who studies raccoons.
The tl;dr was they are too smart and tend to hold grudges to become domestic.
Still, they would be cool pets.
Even better, if after their domestication they were still smart and resistant enough to not fall into the hands of owners that treat them like toys.
you just described cats
Ha. True! I do have one revenge-seeker living under my roof!
This argument is always so silly. Domestication is the process of changing animals so they become more suitable to living with humans. The fact that wild animals aren't domesticated and therefore have traits that are problematic for that is tautological.
2 points:
Quolls, in Australia, are apparently about the same smarts as raccoons: you have to childproof EVERYTHING in a house they're living-in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoll ( the article I'd read pointed-out that they're endangered BECAUSE people can't have them as pets, whereas cats aren't endangered & are pets )
grudge-holding may not be amendable, through breeding-program.
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Pretty much any behavioral trait is changeable through natural or artificial selection. That includes intelligence. Actually it's pretty clear that part of domestication for dogs was making them less intelligent.
Some species may take longer, and it's generally a slow process. I doubt these animals will be domesticated during our lifetimes but in the future who knows?
There was a scientific study run in the US comparing the behavior of wolves and dogs.
Within 2 days, the scientists had to add a lock to the door of the wolf enclosure because the wolves had learned by watching them how to open the door and escaped. The dogs kept the same simple door latch throughout the entire experiment and never escaped.
So our beloved man's best friend are just derived from the dumbest of the wolves?
Kind of...
The domestication of dogs brought out a lot of neoteny traits -- juvenile traits retained into adulthood. Our beloved man's best friend are derived from wolves that never fully grew up and instead remained puppy-like for their entire lives. This makes them smaller, friendlier, more submissive, and easier to train (among other things) ... but it also does make them a bit stupider.