Curly tails and floppy ears are a generql sign of domestication. It’s a shame, really. The wild animals look so majestic, while their pet counterparts look very unserious.
It might even be inevitable. Even humans display “domestication syndrome” in comparison with our closest primate relatives, and bonobos also seem to have changed in analogous ways when they became more sociable.
Curly tails and floppy ears are a generql sign of domestication. It’s a shame, really. The wild animals look so majestic, while their pet counterparts look very unserious.
Piebald coloration has also been found to be a marker of domestication too, although there isn’t much of a good explanation for it yet - https://susancrockford.substack.com/p/thyroid-hormone-and-spotted-coats
Wild people looked very majestic (+ tails), while their domesticated counterparts look very unserious and unhealthy. ☝🏽🤓
Sorry)
It might even be inevitable. Even humans display “domestication syndrome” in comparison with our closest primate relatives, and bonobos also seem to have changed in analogous ways when they became more sociable.