Man's obsession with domesticating the beast has led to the extinction of the Bajan lion and Asian cheetah and the progeny of the gray wolf are everywhere

The Earth was originally the home of wildlife, more than 200,000 years ago, the Earth is still under the natural law of survival of the fittest, so all kinds of animals have evolved into a colorful species, of which felines and canines have become the best of them, a series of feline mastodons and bears, wolves and other fierce animals became the top of the food chain.

Lions

Once upon a time, our ancestor ancient humans were in a very vulnerable position, in an environment surrounded by fierce animals, ancient humans almost had to become one of the foods of fierce animals. The current human beings on earth have a single ancestor, that is, the African archaeopteryx, and before the African archaeopteryx migrated out of the country, there are many ancient human beings with our ancestors are extinct, which is an important reason that the feline and other beasts are too powerful, and a small area near the African Sahara because of fewer beasts, so that the local archaeopteryx get enough time to grow, after mastering the use of tools, ancient humans had the strength to stand at the top of the food chain for the first time.

Domestication of lions

From 200,000 years ago, ancient humans gradually migrated around the world and entered into direct competition with various types of beasts and gained an advantage. With the human ability to control the natural world more and more, the ancient people also began to domesticate animals, excluding pigs, cattle and sheep, and other herbivores, some areas of the people began to try to domesticate and conquer beasts and lasted a long time, although humans boast of higher animals, the face of the unyielding beasts, more is the end of the failure, which also directly led to the extinction of many wild species. These three beasts are very representative: lions, cheetahs, and gray wolves.

First place: Barbary lion.

The Barbary lion is a lion living in North Africa, large size can be compared to the northeast tiger, abdomen, and neck with thick hair, they were once the most powerful animals in North Africa, even the African natives can only respect, can be said that the strength of extraordinary. However, when Europeans could reach North Africa, the Barbary lions welcomed their greatest enemy.

Roman Colosseum Lions

The ancient Roman Empire spent a lot of manpower to capture the Barbary lions. According to the records, there was a time when as many as six hundred Barbary lions were used to welcome the festivals and beast-fighting shows held by the rulers of the ancient Roman Empire, which shows how many Barbary lions were captured. In the case of the ancient Roman Empire to the power of the arm wrestling with the Barbary lion, the Barbary lion from the top beast of North Africa, into a rare beast.

Ancient Roman Colosseum Lion

With the collapse of the ancient Roman Empire, the Barbary lion was given a brief respite and its numbers increased, however, European colonial rule then turned the slaughter knife on the Barbary lion again, this time more thoroughly, and the last Barbary lion was hunted in the wild in 1922. The surviving Barbary lions live in zoos or circuses and have become the playthings of Europeans. Today, there are no purebred Barbary lions, and the occasional lion with revertant external features is a hybrid offspring of Barbary lions and other species of lions.

Second place: Asian cheetah.

Domesticated cheetahs

Asian cheetah is not a leopard nor a cat, it belongs to the genus Cheetah, why is it so special? That's for a reason they are neither as fierce as the leopard family nor as docile as cats. They are mavericks, like gentlemen walking in the wild. After the failure of human domestication of lions and tigers and other fierce animals, cheetahs, an animal whose skills satisfy the vanity of human conquest of fierce animals and which can hopefully be domesticated, have become the superior choice.

Cheetahs being used for hunting

The domestication of cheetahs was often documented in ancient times and reached its peak in ancient India, where the Mughal dynasty is documented to have kept more than 10,000 cheetahs in captivity, and even built huge cheetah parks specifically for domestication. They proved that cheetahs could be domesticated, and the Indian nobility at the time took pride in domesticating cheetahs for hunting, which was said to be more efficient with cheetahs than with hounds.

But problems ensued. While cheetahs could be domesticated, adult cheetahs could not be domesticated and needed to start as cubs, while cheetahs in captivity could not reproduce. Scientific studies found that cheetahs had a short estrus and required long and extensive chasing frolics to mate. Of course, ancient Indian breeders were unaware of this and were so distressed by the inability of cheetahs to reproduce that they needed to capture cheetah cubs in large numbers, which directly led to the extinction of the Asian cheetah.

Cheetahs

To this day, people in some regions are still obsessed with taming cheetahs.

Number three: the gray wolf.

Gray wolves used to be the biggest enemy of human beings. They live in packs around human beings and pose a great threat to human beings and domestic animals, and although they are not as feared as tigers and leopards, they are more difficult to guard against, so ancient humans are more eager to study them.

More than 7,000 years ago, ancient humans living in South China (not our direct ancestors, this human race has become extinct, followed by the migration of the African human race) began to domesticate the gray wolves, and under the long-term coexistence with humans, these gray wolves gradually got used to human breeding and parted ways with their own fellow wild gray wolves, and the ancient people used a strategy of recruiting and surrendering to achieve the effect of using barbarians to suppress barbarians. The ancient people used the strategy of recruiting and surrendering to achieve the effect of controlling the barbarians with barbarians.

Nowadays, the descendants of these gray wolves have formed a great variety of domestic dogs, some of them are small and cute, some are fierce and tall, some are smart and clever, but all of them are good to people, but they are enemies of wolves, and they are the most and only successful beasts domesticated by humans.

Ah Huang

Nowadays, humans are more dominant, and other animals in nature need to look up to people. I hope humans can control their desires and protect them more so that all things in nature can live in harmony!