Our ancestors domesticated many animals, but why not domesticate flying animals into mounts?

First of all, the most intuitive reason is weight, the difference between the physique of a human and the physique of a bird is "108,000 miles". At present, the largest known bird in the world is only about two meters, and the weight of an adult reaches about 50-70 kilograms, so birds cannot carry our human weight.

To support human weight, it must have a wing length of at least 12 meters. The ratio of bird weight to wings is 2:1, and the wings are so big, so its weight must reach at least about seventy or eighty kilograms, which may cause birds and animals to be difficult to fly, let alone be able to carry people.

Although likeHaast HawkandAndean condorThe size of other large birds is not small, but their weight is averageNot more than 20 kgAccording to the limit of birds that can catch prey and fly (the Andean vulture can catch a sheep of about 15 kilograms and fly, it can be seen that its weight to weight ratio is also about 1), no more than 20 kilograms of weight, at most 40 kilograms of objects can fly, obviously can not take adults to the sky.

From the above process of domestication of animals by human ancestors, it can be seen that the domestication of birds, starting with chickens, and later expanding to ducks and geese, are all smaller animals, and their flight ability is average and more and more degraded. Since human society has been formed, after satisfying food and clothing, "walking" has been put on the agenda, why not domesticate more effective flying animals? The reason is simple, there are no suitable animals.

As we all know, the largest flying animals in history and with outstanding flying ability are no more than pterosaurs in the age of dinosaurs, but 65 million years ago, pterosaurs followed the "big army" and became extinct. The time when human ancestors appeared on the stage of history was only 5 million years, and the time when they began to consciously domesticate animals was only 30,000 years.

After the extinction of the pterosaurs, there were still some large flying animals in history, such as the very large winged Sanceri pseudodont, which unfortunately also became extinct more than 20 million years ago. The nearest large bird, the Argentine eagle, also went extinct about 7 million years ago. In other words, those famous "big birds" in history have disappeared from the face of the earth before the appearance of human ancestors.

Because flying animals cannot carry the weight of humans, the largest known birds in the world are only more than two meters, and the weight of adults is about 50 70 kilograms, so these flying animals cannot be domesticated into mounts.

Because there are generally fewer flying creatures, and secondly, because the IQ of these flying animals is relatively simple, they will have a certain aggression towards some humans.

Because flying animals fly in the sky, humans have less contact with flying animals, so it is not easy to domesticate them into mounts.

Judging from the current human discoveries, the earliest animal domesticated by humans was dogsBecause of our historical records, and in the discovery of remains, the bones of the earliest animals that appeared with humans were the bones of dogs in the living area of the ancestors 10,000 years ago, so it can be seen that the earliest animals domesticated by the ancients were dogs, after all, other domesticated animals were slowly domesticated later.

Chinese archaeologists have found the existence of dogs in the Neolithic ruins, in the Hemudu ruins about 8,000 years ago, the remains of dogs have been found, you must know that animals such as cattle and sheep are slowly domesticated after the opening of Chinese culture, which means that we domesticate cattle and sheep and other animals for a long time, the longest will not exceed 5,000 years, but the remains of dogs, in the area of human life seven or eight thousand years ago, This is enough to show that dogs were already able to coexist peacefully with humans at that time, so dogs were domesticated at that time.

Secondly, many people may ask why chickens, ducks and geese are not, in fact, the reason is very simple, because the breed of domestic chickens, ducks and geese only slowly appeared in the Warring States Period, before that, human beings, all the chickens, ducks and geese eaten were wild breeds, and wild chickens, ducks and geese would not attack humans, and the humans at that time had already invented **, it was very simple to catch a few chickens, ducks and geese alive, but the people of the Warring States Period thought of raising chickens, ducks and geese, and made money with it, and chickens, ducks and geese were domesticated.

Finally, there is still a saying that dogs are not domesticated animals by humans, but animals that are born close to humans, because in the ancient history books of our country, there is no record of human domestication of dogs, and our common "Chinese pastoral dogs" can coexist with humans after they are born, and humans can also teach them, so dogs are likely not to be domesticated, but are born to be good friends of humans.

The earliest animal domesticated by humans should have been horses, because in ancient times, it seems that they were proficient in horsemanship, and they knew the way of horse training at a very early age.

The first domesticated animal was the horse, and at that time it was also used to do some things, so it was also called the horse on horseback to fight the world at that time.

The first domesticated animal was the horse, which in ancient times often rode horses to fight, and people were also proficient in equestrianism, which played a great role.

It should be pigs, horses, cows, chickens, dogs. At that time, people had already learned to domesticate animals, and at this time people mainly domesticated domestic animals.

Because the ancestors of human beings could not catch flying animals at all, and because humans could not fly, they did not tame flying animals.

It may be because the ancestors of humans and flying animals did not have much communication either, after all, one is on earth and the other is in heaven.

It's because flying animals generally live in the sky, and then humans live on land, and there is no way to live on the same plane.

Because in that era, humans could not find suitable flying animals in the first place. So there are no mounts like this.

Because people are not that capable, they can't tame them.

Real life is not a game, the training is too difficult, and the flying animals are relatively small, the weight-bearing capacity is relatively poor, and the safety factor is relatively low.

Flying animals are very difficult to catch, the body of flying animals is relatively small, and flying in the sky is also very dangerous, so flying animals are not tamed as mounts.

In the history of mankind, there was no taming of flying animals as mounts, because flying animals are difficult to control and not easy to catch, so it is difficult to implement the training process.

Because many flying animals are relatively small, they are inconvenient for humans to ride, so humans have not tamed these animals.

There are no tames, because flying animals are difficult to tame, and many flying animals cannot carry the weight of humans.

The domestication and domestication of animals need to meet some specific conditions.

Herbivorous. If you want to domesticate a carnivore, it is very inefficient, because it takes 1000 catties of herbivores to raise 100 catties of the animal. Grow fast enough.

Elephants are not picky eaters, but they take up to 15 years to reach adulthood. Can be bred in captivity. Hunting leopards cannot be kept in captivity, so they are difficult to domesticate.

The temperament can't be too sinister. The Ainu people in Japan used to raise grizzly bears for religious reasons, but they had to kill them when they were one year old. Don't be too easily frightened.

Most deer and antelopes are vigilant and easily frightened and die on the fence in order to escape. Social structure. In this way, the animal will instinctively follow the leader and will be suitable for grazing.