Why Haven't We Domesticated Monkeys?
Monkeys seem like they would be great companions and even helpers, but they have a number of traits that make them terrible candidates for domestication.
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Show Notes
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Domestication: The long term, multi-generational process of selectively breeding animals to modify their traits to make them more useful to humans.
- Zoonosis: An infection spread between animals and humans.
- Domestication, monkeys, capuchin, primate, zoonosis, pet monkey.
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