What if we keep breeding tarantula and other inverts for thousands of years? Will it be domesticated?

[Dominationts]

I'm wondering this for a long time, about what if we keep breeding tarantula and other inverts for thousands of years will it changed their natural behaviour and appearance? But, i know for a fact that domestication happen if human need something from that animal or plant. But im just curious will tarantula and other inverts have even the slightest change if we keep breeding them for thousands of years just like other domesticated animal?

What do y'all think?

 

[Jeef]

Honeybees aren't really domesticated, and we've been using those for thousands of years.

Depending on who you talk to, house cats aren't really domesticated.

I don't think it is possible. Even if it was, I can't come up with a scenario where there would be any demand or benefit from a domesticated tarantula.

 

[Enn49]

@Jeef is right, no creature can ever become truly domesticated, they just tolerate us for their own ends, like food and a comfy home.

 

[Ratmosphere]

No.

 

[m0lsx]

Animals do change with the years & due to human intervention. Look at cows. Before human intervention, they were aurochs & very different to what we know as cows today. The same with dogs. They started as wolves & all the breeds we now have, are the result of selective breeding.

But it does not only take human intervention. The same can happen in nature. In Australia Tiger snakes have evolved on an island to eat larger prey & this has happened in a few decades, not centuries, due to need.

 

[Tarantula Trooper]

You can in some ways say we have through captive breeding and that's as close to domestication we will probably ever get.

 

[Lawrence b]

Does hobby form count as a type of domestication ,