1. Education  Discuss in my forum  Animal Domestication Table of
Dates and Places  When and Where Animal Domestication Occurred
Chickens, Chang Mai, Thailand  Chickens, Chang Mai, Thailand
David Wilmot  Animal domestication is what scholars call the
process of developing the mutually useful relationship between
animals and humans. Over the past 12,000 years, humans have
learned to control their access to food and other necessities of
life by changing the behaviors and natures of wild animals. All
of the animals that we use today, such as dogs, cats, cattle,
sheep, camels, geese, horses, and pigs, started out as wild
animals but were changed over the centuries and millennia into
tamer, quieter animals. Some of the ways people benefit from a
domesticated animal include keeping cattle in pens for access to
milk and meat and for pulling plows; training dogs to be
guardians and companions; teaching horses to adapt to the plow
or take a rider; and changing the lean, nasty wild boar into a
fat, friendly farm anim