Re: 1st Season New Amsterdam - The Golden Boy - 5 star poll - SPOILERS AHOY !

On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 18:32:00 GMT, "Joetheone"
<joetheone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>"Pythor" <pythor@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> On Mar 9, 2:05 pm, "Joetheone" <joethe...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>> wrote:

>>> I've never understood why buffalo were never domesticated. It can be 
>>> done.
>>
>> Read "Guns, Germs, and Steel."  Short answer, they're mean.  It takes
>> a lot of work and perseverance to domesticate them.  Horses are much
>> easier, and dogs practically domesticate themselves given half a
>> chance.
>>
>Bet the first weren't very easy. Horses are pretty easy because they've
been 
>domesticated for so many generations. I work with Mustangs a lot, and
they 
>are in some ways easier than pasture bred horses, because they're
descended 
>from domesticated stock, with the 'eager to please' trait always being
bred 
>for. And nobody's taught them bad habits until they're caught. Same with 
>dogs. Somebody had to catch a wolf and tame it to start the whole thing 
>rolling. Indians had dogs.
>There isn't much difference between the Cape Buffalo, about the meanest 
>thing on four wheels, and the water buffalo that the little Asian kids
jump 
>on and ride out to feed every day.

Or an aurochs and a cow...

>A llama is a pretty mean, obnoxious animal, too. Like all camels, I
guess.
>Hard work and perseverance has been a pretty common and necesary trait in

>humans until just recently. 
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