r/BeAmazed • u/TianaTatiana22 • 1d ago

Animal Wolf begs a bear for food

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u/bpows 1d ago

 I wonder if that’s where dogs came from 

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u/OhNoIBoffedIt 1d ago

That's close to what's assumed. Wolves probably realized that if they protected the humans, the humans would feed them.

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u/bpows 1d ago edited 1d ago

I was being sarcastic, it’s exactly where dogs came from.  Wolves hanging around our campfire 30,000 or so years ago, begging for scraps.  Those wolves became more docile, evolving to the “proto-dog” which cohabitated with us for thousands of years.  The breeds we have today are the result of very unnatural selection, selective breeding to bring out the physical traits we wanted, usually for specific tasks the dogs were for, or for vanity.   They are all descendants of the proto-dog, and before that, wolves.  

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u/IndividualBrain9726 1d ago

Oh yeah, and next you’ll tell me we descend from primates

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u/Marwaimusoont 1d ago

both dogs and humans descended from a common mammalian ancestor.

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u/championsOfEu1221 1d ago

The manbearpig

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u/Such-Ad-4309 1d ago

L'ancêtre commun est le poisson écureuil