From David Fishel, Indianapolis, Indiana, US
The idea that our ancient ancestors raised wolf pups as pets and then harvested them makes perfect sense, an idea proposed as a route to eventual domestication(9 August, p 34).
Could our ancestors have also raised juvenile ungulates for the products they would yield as adults? I can easily picture a band of hunters discovering a baby deer near its slain mother and subsequently taking it in. I know from experience that white-tailed fawns easily bond with human caretakers. So it isn’t a stretch to imagine similarly tamed deer following a band of palaeolithic hunters.
