00:00Have you always wondered, how did dogs become man's best friend?
00:04There were plenty of choices. Horses, monkeys, cats.
00:07Okay, to be honest, they probably didn't care.
00:09So it was dogs that became humanity's loyal sidekick.
00:13But here's the surprising twist.
00:15Humans didn't necessarily choose dogs.
00:18Dogs chose humans.
00:21Thousands of years ago, when our ancestors lived in the wild,
00:25wolves lurked nearby.
00:26Most stayed away, since humans were noisy, unpredictable,
00:31and were occasionally armed with pointy sticks.
00:34But some wolves noticed something.
00:36Hey, those humans leave scraps lying around.
00:39You mean free food?
00:41So the boldest and probably friendliest wolves
00:44started hanging around the edges of human camps.
00:47Now, over many generations, those less aggressive wolves
00:51gained a huge evolutionary advantage.
00:53And humans started relying on them.
00:56Always wondered.
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