This is a Dwarf Asian elephant in Sri Lanka, he stands at 5 foot tall at the shoulder. (Normal is 8 to 10 ft. Dwarfism is an inheritable trait, so we could potentially select for this and create a breed of pet dwarf elephants. Imagine coming home from work with a 2 foot tall baby elephant lumbering towards you flapping his big ears and trumpeting loudly. Why aren't we domesticating more animals when domestication would likely cause an explosion in that animals population size?
>>5040371they are pregnant for a long time and only carry one baby which takes a long time to raise
>>5040375But they live for 60 to 70 years. You don't have to replace them every decade like dogs.
>>5040371You have to feed them their own shit so they can properly digest their food
>>5040392yeah but you need like 40 years for what a bunch of dogs or animals could do in only a few
>5ft fall is still way too big for a pet: even before considering the safety concerns, most people in current year likely don't have the space>high intelligence means they'd be harder to keep entertained without turning destructive>you'd probably need multiple of them for the previous reason, like with parrots or rats, but then that requires even more space, and if they have phellow 'phants to hang out with then they might feel less need to care about the biped's silly rules
>>5040371domestication is basically causing retardation in animals, also elephants take over a year to gestate and 12 years to mature, theres no way youre going to causing a population boom nor domesticate them anytime soon, youd have to go through several hundred generations for it be possible
A promising start to toadline pachyderms.
>>5040371there used to be lots pygmy elephant sub-species around the world, including Europe, but they died out naturally long ago. GRRM uses them in his Game of Thrones books in one of the "exotic" cities of the east, where they're used like large working dog breeds. Their skeletons may also be the inspiration for "Cyclops" b/c their nasal opening is right in the middle of their forehead, and looks like a giant eye, while the rest of their bone are very short, stocky and similar to other human/mammal skeletons. Same with dino bones and "dragons", especially in China where there are dino fossils all over the place laying out in the open.
>>5040473no cyclops are real, if youre rational free thinking adults, like me, you can see though the lies spoon fed to you by natgeo and other liberal media outlets and see it for what it is
>>5040371that south park episode is like 30 years old now
>>5040371Dwarfism also has plenty of other deformities and defects in addition to size
>>5040371Unless you had a herd of them a a huge open space for them to live, you would be mentally torturing them making them develop psychological issues and violence
