We share so much with our ape relatives and other animals but almost all animals do not keep pets - isnt that odd ?

The subject came up about animals in adverts and I thought about the way we humans love pets and have developed strong relationships with other animals not just for food but for protection entertainment and other benefits. And then I realised that even our closest relative bonobos do not do this. There is not even any evidence Neanderthals kept pets. Earliest evidence for a per appears to be 32000 years ago with tracks of a wolf walking alongside a child. Early records are from Europe and the Middle East. This made me immediately think of Romulus and Remus, but Romulus founded Rome in about 732BC (says chatgpt). Chatsgpt doesnt know an answer for the oldest folklore of humans and pets but the evidence is that dogs weren't buried with humans until about 14000BC. So 18000 years of casual association and 14000 years of true domestication ?? I think this is an interesting subject worthy of more research. Any opinions or contributions anyone ?

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DearAmbellina2113 · 41-45, F

We are alien hybrids. That's why we are different from anything else on this planet.

Captain · 61-69, M

@DearAmbellina2113 Erm - while i think Giorgio A. Tsoukalos, Nick Pope and co highlight interesting mysteries that need sorting out and I find “year 8000… eyes of your eyes…” very thought provoking indeed - and Al Beilek’s bizarre claims, and the book I read of someones interpretation of Nostradamus’s prediction in 1987 - where more than half have since been fulfilled - is worth looking at for idle speculation, no - 99% of our genetic code is matched to bonobo DNA, so we are not 1% alien, that one is I’m afraid utter b*ll*cks. There is clear evidence of humans of the distinct racial groups have cross bread with other homonids as they cam out of Africa and diverge into the racial types but not alien’2s - 25% of our DNA is no alien and givne all the RNA in out mitochondria and other organs, and our blood cells, and in our gut etc that interact with our own DNA - no the fine tuning is preserved, we do not carry around Alien DNA.

DearAmbellina2113 · 41-45, F

@Captain disagree

Captain · 61-69, M

@DearAmbellina2113 Your prerogative. In fact there is one circumstance under which I would buy it and that is “eyes of your eyes”. If Extra terrestrials were actually not extraterrestrial but us coming back from our future - then gene types would still be pretty similar. I don’t have any problem with both the future and past being plastic any more because of Wheeler’s single electron universe theory, and in fact ghosts and precognition become possible as well - so who knows this weeks winning lottery numbers ?