All references are available on the Wild No More website at wildnomore.com.

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A lot of horsing around happens as Sara and Maria talk about horse domestication, wild horses and how horses conquered the world. Mongolian horse culture myths are debunked. From food to man’s other best friend – join the ride!

All references are available on the Wild No More website at wildnomore.com.

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All references are available on the Wild No More website at wildnomore.com.

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Music used in this episode: Nashville Vibes by Andy Warner https://tunetank.com/track/6477-nashville-vibes/

All references for this episode are available at wildnomore.com.

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Music used in this episode: Nashville Vibes by Andy Warner https://tunetank.com/track/6477-nashville-vibes/

All references for this episode are available at wildnomore.com.

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Music used in this episode: Nashville Vibes by Andy Warner https://tunetank.com/track/6477-nashville-vibes/

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All references for this episode are available at wildnomore.com.

Music used in this episode: Nashville Vibes by Andy Warner https://tunetank.com/track/6477-nashville-vibes/

All references are available on the Wild No More website at wildnomore.com.

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Music used in this episode: Nashville Vibes by Andy Warner https://tunetank.com/track/6477-nashville-vibes/

All references are available on the Wild No More website at wildnomore.com.

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Music used in this episode: Nashville Vibes by Andy Warner https://tunetank.com/track/6477-nashville-vibes/

All references for this episode are available at wildnomore.com.

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Correction — the man who ran poodles in the Iditarod in the 1980s was named John Suter, not Sutton.

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Wikipedia 2025. “Dog meat.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_meat

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Pitulko and Kasparov 2017. “Archaeological dogs from the Early Holocene Zhokhov site in the Easter Siberian Arctic.” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352409X16303157

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Reamer 2022. “Here’s what happened to John Suter, the musher who rand poodles in the Iditarod.” https://www.adn.com/outdoors-adventure/iditarod/2022/03/06/heres-what-happened-to-john-suter-the-musher-who-ran-poodles-in-the-iditarod/

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Stoeckel et al., 2014. “Patterns of brain activation when mothers view their own child and dog: an fMRI study.” https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0107205

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Reeve et al., 2021. “Dog owners’ survey reveals medical alert dogs can alert to multiple conditions and multiple people.” https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0249191

Nagasawa et al., 2015. "Oxytocin-gaze positive loop and the coevolution of human-dog bonds.” https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1261022

Kaminski et al., 2017. "Human attention affects facial expressions in domestic dogs." https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-12781-x

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Mood 2019. “Remembering Chaser, the ‘smartest dog in the world.’” https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/news/remembering-chaser-the-smartest-dog-in-the-world/

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Stupid dove nests subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/stupiddovenests/?rdt=38535

Neanderthals eating pigeons: https://phys.org/news/2014-08-ancient-pigeon-bones-reveal-secrets.html

Pigeon intelligence: https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-asymmetric-brain/201907/the-surprising-neuroscience-pigeon-intelligence

Ancient Mesopotamian dovecotes: http://www.anthropology.uw.edu.pl/15/bne-15-02.pdf

Pigeons in ancient Rome and the Near East: https://www.asorblog.org/2017/11/28/not-just-birds-pigeons-roman-byzantine-near-east.html

Pigeon and thrush dung: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jpln.202300152

The last known population of wild rock doves: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004222008926

Thailand Laugher and Arabian Trumpeter images: https://www.pigeontype.info/2018/08/31/thailand-laugher-pigeons/

Arabian trumpeter sound: https://youtu.be/bQif1fSBhe8

Stargard shakers: https://youtu.be/GxkxTyDk3s8

Homer’s reference to the silver doves of Messina: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Homer_-_Iliad,_translation_Pope,_1909.djvu/67

Parlor rollers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiQOb6dMN28

Tumbler pigeon: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sKzhk2zR340

Mike Tyson’s pigeon spending habits: https://www.essentiallysports.com/boxing-news-how-much-are-mike-tysons-pigeons-worth/

Pigeon pants (diapers): https://www.pigeonrescue.org/faqs-2/where-can-i-get-pigeon-pants/

Pigeon contraception: https://www.audubon.org/magazine/cities-are-testing-birth-control-solve-pigeon-problems

Weight of pigeon poop per bird per year: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4494298/

Pigeons as research model animals: https://academic.oup.com/socpro/article-abstract/55/1/72/1640224

Jiguet et al., 2019, Urban pigeons losing toes due to human activities: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006320719306901

Pigeon crop milk, signalling pathways (oxytocin etc.) and also stats on pigeon meat consumption in China: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0032579123002043

Pigeon racing in Belgium, from 1818 to now (with doping!): https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8880243/

Pigeon racing at the 1900 Olympics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon_racing_at_the_1900_Summer_Olympics

Chinese government cracks down on gambling on pigeon racing: https://www.pigeonsfci.net/news-detail-661f3a242f2a3.html

Pigeon racers in the Mishnah: https://www.sefaria.org/English_Explanation_of_Mishnah_Rosh_Hashanah.1.8.2?lang=bi

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Pigeons in warfare: https://bjmh.gold.ac.uk/article/download/808/930

Pigeons in the Franco-Prussian war: https://scholarworks.harding.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1115&context=tenor

Pigeons smuggling contraband into Brazilian prisons: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/apr/01/pigeons-mobile-phones-brazil-prison

Project Pigeon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon

Cher Ami, the decorated war pigeon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cher_Ami

Pigeons can detect breast cancer in medical images: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4651348/

Orthographic learning: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1607870113

Visual pattern recognition: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1439-0310.1989.tb00495.x

Painting style discrimination: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1901/jeab.1995.63-165

Pigeons prefer Bach to Stravinsky: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1985-00463-001

Pope’s dove of peace: https://newsfeed.time.com/2013/01/29/popes-dove-of-peace-attacked-by-seagull-of-irony/

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Articles used in this episode:

General goldfish domestication history: https://www.pnas.org/doi/suppl/10.1073/pnas.2005545117/suppl_file/pnas.2005545117.sapp.pdf

More general info, including US government distribution of goldfish: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/history-of-goldfish

Genetic basis of morphological diversity in domesticated goldfish: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982220305480

Feeding goldfish turmeric: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352513423002442

Pearl essence: https://cosmeticsandskin.com/cdc/pearl-essence.php

Meteor goldfish: https://registerforum.org/20522/opinion/a-moral-dilemma-of-breeding-and-meteor-goldfish/

Carrot the goldfish-koi hybrid: https://www.iflscience.com/giant-goldfish-hybrid-as-heavy-as-a-10-year-old-is-a-reminder-not-to-dump-your-pets-66317

Australian goldfish migration: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ginormous-goldfish-are-invading-australian-rivers-180960177/

Distance goldfish migrate in Australia: https://phys.org/news/2016-08-gold-evidence-spawning-migration-football-size.html

Goldfish spawning and parthenogenesis: https://www.agassizharrisonobserver.com/news/up-to-the-gills-in-goldfish-large-invasive-fish-a-problem-in-b-c-waters-expert-2014494

Samuel Pepy’s goldfish observations: https://the-history-girls.blogspot.com/2016/04/samuel-pepys-and-goldfish-by-karen.html

Napoleon’s goldfish: https://sainthelenaisland.info/goldfish.pdf

Rouhani’s goldfish statement: https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-35861954

PT Barnum’s claims about introducing goldfish: https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/the-great-goldfish-invasion-how-an-exotic-carp-took-over-america/264420/

Goldfish fishery in Lake Erie: https://www.mlive.com/news/2016/04/great_lakes_goldfish.html

Judas fish technique in Hamilton Harbour (Ontario): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0380133023002460

Whole genome duplication in carp and goldfish: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-021-00933-9

Chordin gene and its role in fantail goldfish: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-24444-7

Goldfish gulping trend: https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/stories/1939-year-goldfish-gulping

Goldfish scooping in Japan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfish_scooping

Swiss legislate keeping at least two goldfish: https://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/fishkeeping-news/swiss-legislation-to-affect-aquarium-hobby/

Parkinson’s disease modelled in goldfish: https://faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1096/fasebj.6.12.1521741

Goldfish driving a terrestrial vehicle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOb--M5pi6Y

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Clarification: When we are talking about camels' knobby knees and pedestal, we are talking about camels lying down.

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Gleeson, Ben Thomas, and Laura AB Wilson. "Shared reproductive disruption, not neural crest or tameness, explains the domestication syndrome." Proceedings of the Royal Society B 290.1995 (2023): 20222464.

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Zeder, Melinda A. "Pathways to animal domestication." Biodiversity in agriculture: domestication, evolution, and sustainability 10 (2012): 227-259.

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Intro and outro music: Nashville Vibes by Andy Warner https://tunetank.com/track/6477-nashville-vibes/