Neanderthals were the first to domesticate a wild animal, the Side-Hill Wampus.
I wonder if the Side Hill Wampus is related to the Vari-legged Jackalope of the Paleolithic Texas Hill Country. It resembled a large jackrabbit mated to an antelope.
The Jackalope had legs on one side that were longer than the legs on the other side. As a result, they could run up hills in a circular manner, leaving distinctive spiraling paths worn into the hills over time.
Alas, the Jackalope was destined for extinction. They were one of Nature’s experiments that failed the test of evolution because having once attained the crest of a hill due to the perfect conformation of its physical parts for that particular job, they could find no way to retreat down the hill and expired on the crest.