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Zoos’ role in domesticating wild species for agricultural use…?

September 7th, 2011

When I was a child, I used to fantasise about introducing a host of exciting exotic species to British farms. Why, I thought, cannot we ride zebras or tapirs, as well as horses?   If you could domesticate the ancestors of cattle and sheep, why not all those other marvellous grazing species.  A boring old ‘ordinary’ [...]