AHC: Get Australian Aboriginals to domesticate an animal

[Jared]

Spider themselves -> putting a spider into somebody's bed is a good way to have them leave home one way or the other

This is Australia. Anyone who can't be bothered to check their bed for spiders before lying down has lost the will to live.

 

[Richard V]

Those animals are not domesticated but tamed, unless I am forgetting something?

They are described as domesticated, and are farmed for meat, eggs, oil and leather.

 

[Analytical Engine]

Spiders.

Before you say spiders cannot be domesticated, but they can be utilized:
Poison -> spears, darts, arrows = lots of death for their enemies and hunting

In regards to poisons, sure. With enough patience, you could probably do that.

Silk -> Spider silk can be woven into fabric that is stronger than most fabric. With the right weave and the right TL leap you could have a bullet-proof vest

The problem with spiders is that you would need a lot of them to produce the amount of silk you'd need. It's hard enough to do that now.

Given enough mulberry leaves, silkworm caterpillars are quite happy to be near other silkworms; domesticating them is easy. Put spiders together, and they will eat each other.

It's sooooo much more cost effective to make silk with silkworms than with spiders, it's not even funny. There are reasons why there are transgenic goats that produce spider silk proteins in their milk.

 

[Revachah]

I honestly believe domesticated subspecies of eel able to lay fertile eggs in closed systems (think a lake trout vs a salmon) will have a farther reaching impact than most other domesticates in australia.

A high fat, nutrient dense food in fresh and brackish water carried in egg or elver phase in emu eggs, bamboo, water filled sinew or pottery from closed system to closed system.