These unfairly maligned animals were nuggets for our ancestors and served for the UK during the second world war, says Lewisham comedian Toussaint Douglass
US Horses and Australian camels fit that definition. Maybe dingos if 8000 years of separation counts. But the rest don’t. Humans introducing a species someplace they aren’t native, even if it’s on purpose, isn’t the same as a domesticated animal going feral.
Cats are a weird one. Not really domesticated. Not really feral. Something in between. Like a wild animal that made a handshake agreement with humans rather than a formal contract.
All the wild horses in the US have been brought from Europe.
Dingos in Australia were brought by humans. Camels as well, though thousands of years later. Rabbits, toads, rats…
OK, the rats have not been brought on purpose.
US Horses and Australian camels fit that definition. Maybe dingos if 8000 years of separation counts. But the rest don’t. Humans introducing a species someplace they aren’t native, even if it’s on purpose, isn’t the same as a domesticated animal going feral.
Fair point, but dingos aren’t wild dogs, they were ere domesticated. Cats fit as well.
Cats are a weird one. Not really domesticated. Not really feral. Something in between. Like a wild animal that made a handshake agreement with humans rather than a formal contract.