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You can take a wild American falcon from the wild and have it eating from your glove within just an hour of capture. For millennia, we've lived in extraordinary partnership with some of the fastest animals on earth -- but we've never domesticated them.
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The UAE issues passports for falcons.
The Abu Dhabi Falcon Hospital receives roughly 11,000 falcons a year.
The United States banned DDT in 1972.
Cornell ornithologist Tom Cade founded the Peregrine Fund in 1970 to breed peregrines in captivity and release them to the wild.
Between 1974 and 1997 the Peregrine Fund bred and released more than 4,000 falcons.
A 2024 analysis of 65 hoofed-mammal taxa linked capture myopathy to how readily a species can be domesticated.
A stooping peregrine can reach speeds of about 200 mph.
Steklis, N. G.; et al.. Animals (Basel), 2024
65 artiodactyl and perissodactyl taxa; vulnerability to capture myopathy was the only significant obstacle to domestication.
The Indian Express, 2019
Science History Institute
Abu Dhabi Falcon Hospital
The Peregrine Fund
BioKids, University of Michigan
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