>>16485703
>>This is not what you said before
>Yes it is.
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>>You’re not willing to throw all written accounts of things out the window, don’t be ridiculous
>I am
Of course I was right, but it doesn’t matter. All we have established is a lack of rigor in your thought process.
>>16485703
>Stories about a cow/horse hybrid from the 17th century written by some random and something like written accounts of animal behaviour made by biologists are not comparable
These are not randoms, these are contemporary experts in animal husbandry, and also John Locke. But as I have said, I would like to see the question studied by serious and competent modern biologists in a good-quality study.
>You would need more evidence than that.
And I welcome more scientific evidence in either direction.
>There are far more written accounts of dholes
Interesting, I have never heard of a dhole. From the google pictures they look themselves not wholly canid. What language are these accounts written in?
>you have clearly been trying to suggest that these animals are likely to be hybrids
You could look at it that way. “Be it resolved: these animals are hybrids!”
>beasts of burden still exist and are common in much of the world. Mules are purposefully bred for tasks, and if the stories are to believe the same was true for those supposed cow/horse hybrids. Why doesn’t anyone still do it then?
Even in the old accounts, these animals were bred only in specific areas, including the French Alps and modern-day Turkey. Why the practice did not spread further, and apparently died out, I do not know. Perhaps it was “out-competed in the market” by a “more efficient technology” such as other types of animal, and, later, machinery. In any case, the only peoples that still use animal labor in place of tractors are by definition primitive and backward, and might well be incapable of husbandry in its more advanced forms, even if news of the possibility somehow did reach them.

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