Had to evict a big ass spider from my room today and was reminded of this meme template. At least it’s easier to evict spiders than cats, the latter don’t fit in measuring cups.
Had to evict a big ass spider from my room today and was reminded of this meme template. At least it’s easier to evict spiders than cats, the latter don’t fit in measuring cups.
Can we really say spiders domesticated themselves when we were the ones to come live in their habitats (caves)? What are houses but a recreation of caves we used to call home?
Yeah, I’m not sure they count as “domesticated”. I was always given to understand that domesticated implied some basic degree of understanding that they were part of an arrangement with humans, e.g. cats know that you’re feeding them and don’t attack you, whereas an otherwise-untrained wild animal will readily bite the hand that feeds it.
Cambridge Dictionary on the other hand has a different definition: “brought under human control in order to provide food, power, or company”, which also doesn’t fit spiders, because it implies they’re under my control when they’re very much not.
the big thing with domestication is that they kinda need to have some genetic changes, otherwise they’re just tame or chill.
And yeah cats kinda sorta aren’t domesticated, they’re not very different from their ancestors and i’d wager there are african wildcats who just decide to become housecats every now and then.
I’d class ““domestic”” spiders alongside raccoons, rats, and foxes: animals who just inherently function really well in human habitats.
They could’ve decided to just stay in their cold and moist caves. But warm and dry homes are apparently more pleasent. I don’t fault them.