Why is it only some chose to live amongst us?

Question

Why is it only some animals chose to live in the cities amongst us?

For example, why is it only cats and dogs live in the city with us? Why not chimpanzees, wolves, wild cattle, horses, or vultures and more?

Where did the rest go?

Answer 1

Most animals do not care about humans too much. Cats and dogs are different. They have been domesticated for so long and were mostly born and raised in a human environment that they have come to understand and be dependent on that environment.

Most other animals find the environments we have created do not suit them. Exceptions are many, of course - everything from the flea, bedbug and cockroach to mice, rats, many birds and some larger animals like foxes and racoons.

Wild life in the city is much more than you would think at first glance. Use your eyes and take notice of the plants growing in the cracks in brickwork and on waste ground. Don't think of them as weeds, think of them as life finding a foothold. Look around for insects and bugs and anything small - lizards, for example. Don't think of them as vermin. They are animals which have adapted themselves to the environment we have created. Some are there because it's not so different from a natural environment for them, some are there because humans generate a lot of waste which is easy pickings and some are there because we ourselves are their source of food!

The other animals you mention (cattle and horses) are herd animals and need very large areas of grass to survive, wolves live and hunt in packs and need forest and woodland. Vultures find us just too tidy with our large dead bodies which is what they feed on.

Answer 2

Well, cattle and horses need a lot of space, which they don't get in the city. Vultures are scavengers. They left the city when most of the other animals did because there were no dead animal bodies like in the wild. Chimps need forrests, which cities do not provide. Wolves left because other animals left and there was not enough food. Cats and dogs, as we know them, were domesticated hundreds of years ago. That is why they stay--because they have been bred to live with humans.

Answer 3

Animals don't have choice, just instinct, thats often why Raccoons, Skunks, Beavers and Marmots are often found living in our Suburbs. They were there first and we moved into their territory. Cats and Dogs were tamed to serve our needs. Dogs actually help us hunt better and cats can help keep the mice population under control if they are trained right, but cat herders know the problems with that. Cows, horses, sheep, goats, llamas and raindeer, need open areas in which to live, not back yards but they are still domesticated and actually thrive with proper care.

Answer 4

I accept as true with the man above. There are human beings in workplace that are lizards (a minimum of metaphorically). i have heard of a few incredibly lame excuses for George W. Bush being an fool, yet it really is fingers down the craziest. President Bush would not favor to be an alien to be an fool or for that remember President, he purely has to have distinct efficient, political acquaintances which he does. on the problem of structure transferring lizard extraterrestrial beings, it really is purely insane.

Answer 5

Humans domesticated pets because we like them and so we bring them to our cities.

Humans domesticated farm animals to feed off them. We don't like them around because they smell and take up space in the cities we need for other stuff so we keep them out on the farm.

Rats and pigeons and roaches like to live around humans, it is a good survival environment for them, so they find their way to our cities and breed and thrive.

Chimps have not been popular as pets, they aren't good to eat, and they don't like living in most city environments, so no chimps,

and likewise, none of those other animals thriving in the cities

Answer 6

if youre from england we probably did eat them hundreds of years ago if there was any
many need a warm environment and lets face it englands no africa
as youve probably heard we as a race drive many to extinction and i wouldnt be surprised that we did the same at least on this island
OR
if youre from elsewhere itll be the noise, pollution and all that stuff that keeps them away theyre that sensible

Answer 7

squirrels, birds, foxes, rats and mice all live in the cities

Answer 8

We ate them and they were gooood! 'sides chimps don't like mcdonals burger wrappers. they like forest meat.

Answer 9

cat's and dog's where originaly wild but tamed and turned into pet's century's ago.

so there for we choose them not the other wat around

other animals arnt so good at being tamed.

Answer 10

they didn't choose to live with us...we domesticated them....