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Anonymous
I don't have time to actually try, but are anyone else tempted to make a farm of some animal that breeds fast and force them into situations that requires specific abilities to survive and then look see what kind of abilities they have developed after a few generations?

The easiest example would be to start breeding grasshoppers, and when you got a good amount, you spray insecticide over them, but just enough to kill around half of them, then let them breed until the population is the same again, and repeat until you got a bunch of grasshoppers that are immune to insecticide.
>> Anonymous
Well, I suppose anyone with enough room and time could do that, but what would be the point? Who needs resistant grasshoppers?

Now, domesticating wild animals by letting the most tame and fearless offspring mate is far more interesting. At least it results you with a new breed of pet.
>> Anonymous
>>243287
Mostly just for fun. Though there could be some uses for it. For example, if you're into environmental terrorism, you could unleash these grasshoppers to feast on the crops of innocent people, because their insecticide wouldn't be able to kill them anymore.
>> Anonymous
>>243307
And what happens when those grasshoppers spread and eat the crops you happen to need to survive? I don't think you thought your cunning plan all the way through.
>> Anonymous
you just eat the grasshoppers in the end. everyone wins.
>> Anonymous
I'd say rats or mice. Don't do the pesticide thing, though, there's enough of that in the world - put them through environmental weirdness. (Hot environments, cold environments, wet environments, dry environments, flat environments, environments that require a lot of climbing . . .)

Or take a wild animal and tame it down over the course of fifty years. (I vote some kind of wicked-cool looking antelope that you can ride.)
>> Anonymous
>>243416
Weeaboo detected
>> puffbunny
>>243263
Why bother? Nature does this for us.
>> Anonymous
>>243416
Release them overseas. Or become an insectovior
>> vance !YVKonataVQ
>>243437
wtf?
>> tigerfeather !CrwtTbFNxQ
Triops.

That is all.
>> te-kun
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Squirrels! Make then friendly and tame!
Instructions:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/25/health/25rats.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1209920910-QTP9KT
M/ENRPTxIM3IyuBg&oref=slogin

Also, albino squirrel!
They would cause less harm if scapes.
>> happyhappyhappy
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no what you'd do is breed a load of grasshoppers and kill off all the grasshoppers without any aesthetic mutations, and let the freaks breed....
>> Anonymous
>>243763
this looks like two grashoppers mating
>> Anonymous
>>243766

that's what it is

OMG HAWT FAPFAPFAP
>> Jesus H. Christ !!nwi78PCb+iZ
>>243263
>>243287

Uh.. instead of muntant grasshoppers.. I'm going to suggest that you domesticate something cool. I'd say that fully domesticated raccoon would be cool (a change of color in the fur too would help).

What with their little people hands, how could you not love them if they were tame and came in nice colors (like cats!)

So there you go... Raccoons...
>> te-kun
>>243769
seems nice...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racoon#As_pets

By the way, how much time they need to reach adulthood?
>> Anonymous
>>243763
Hey! This is a worksafe board!
>> Anonymous
>>243263
in before inbred chocobos, WARK!
>> Anonymous
>>243263
I am, sort of. If you did it long enough you'd get to observe evolution at work first hand. Only on a small scale of-course.
>> Anonymous
That's what biology students do to streptococus strains, fruit flies, and other quickly reproducing organisms to study microevolution. Go take a class if it interests you, just make sure to quarantine your unkillable strep and not release your mutant fruit flies into the wild like I did. I made some larvae pupate under extremely high amounts of flynap and got some monstrosities with legs for antennae, some with a huge eyeball for a head, and some with blue spirally cinnabun wings. Of course none of them could really support themselves outside my constant care so they probably died. now go, PLAY GOD
>> Dreamer
Someone did this with foxes and rats.

Foxes documentation:
http://cbsu.tc.cornell.edu/ccgr/behaviour/Index.htm

The rats were bred by the same team, I think. The thing was, normal outbred rats are kind of curious but wary, they tolerate being picked up but they don't run toward you. The RAGE UP rats screamed and flailed, bit and shat on people; and the domesticated rats would run up to the front of their cages and beg to be picked up, and if you held them they would cuddle obsessively.
>> te-kun !Tkuncv4dfQ
>>244147
If you read the link that I posted you would see that it's the same...>>243742
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You can try mices too, rats are more friendly than mices, you can change that (also mice have a fast life cycle, reproduce a lot and you can keep much more, it would be easier than a racoon or squirell)