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Anonymous
Is it true that Native Americans were on the verge of domesticating Grizzly bears before whitey came and fucked their shit up?
If so, I feel fucking horrible.

MOTHERFUCKING BEAR CAVALRY; WE COULD HAVE HAD IT ALL.

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>> Anonymous
Not bloody likely. Animals are domesticated because it suits them, not because some injun imbued with mystical powers and knowledge of nature can convince them to.
>> Anonymous
If they'd had bear cavalry, do you think we would have been able to take over?
>> Anonymous
>>339230

Well, we still had smallpox and shit.
>> Anonymous
you can't domesticate a large carnivore. there will always be the risk of it tearing you apart, even if it's just playing with you(no malice) it can kill you.
>> Anonymous
Holy shit Kurt Cobain's on lost?
>> Anonymous
$10 says this myth is from the Clan of the Cave Bear series of novels by Jane M Auel that was very popular back in the day where a tribe of early humans keeps a cave bear in a large cage for several months until it is ritually killed...or maybe not, common thought though I guess...
Read Guns Germs and Steel to learn more about domestication of animals and its role in the shape of today's society.