04-06-2018, 01:52 PM
"The chickens in the video are obviously domestic. There is a big difference between domestic and feral chickens."
Sorry, I know it's not what this thread is about but factual errors like this always bugs the crap out of me.
Domesticity is a genetic condition defined only for an entire species brought on by the culling of individuals who don't meet the standard over hundreds of generations. Individuals are not "domesticated", they are a member of a domestic species. Feral is a condition of socialization of an individual domestic animal. Feral animals are a subset of domestic animals. Only domestic animals can be feral since domestic animals are supposed to be socialized to people and feral animals are not socialized, but lions and tigers and bears are not supposed to be socialized to people and so can't be feral. Talking about "wild" or "undomesticated" chickens and cats is just being either lazy or intentionally muddying the underlying facts.
All that being said, yes the feral animals are more wary of traps and fight harder to get out.
Sorry, I know it's not what this thread is about but factual errors like this always bugs the crap out of me.
Domesticity is a genetic condition defined only for an entire species brought on by the culling of individuals who don't meet the standard over hundreds of generations. Individuals are not "domesticated", they are a member of a domestic species. Feral is a condition of socialization of an individual domestic animal. Feral animals are a subset of domestic animals. Only domestic animals can be feral since domestic animals are supposed to be socialized to people and feral animals are not socialized, but lions and tigers and bears are not supposed to be socialized to people and so can't be feral. Talking about "wild" or "undomesticated" chickens and cats is just being either lazy or intentionally muddying the underlying facts.
All that being said, yes the feral animals are more wary of traps and fight harder to get out.