Trogus Pompeius tells us that … wild partridges, when newly caught, or when beaten by the others, are trodden promiscuously by the tame ones,” Pliny the Elder wrote in his Historia Naturalis in the first century AD among the many thousands of ancient facts he left us. Intriguingly, this indicates that partridges were domesticated before or during Pliny's time.
Enamoured by partridges
Partridges also appear on Roman mosaics and thus may have been kept as ancient
