CHAPTER XIX 

 DOMESTICATED ANIMALS 



The animals that we call domestic while sometimes of 

 kinds and appearance very different from any wild animals 

 that we know are yet certainly all descended from kinds that 

 are or were originally wild. There are wild pigs, wild goats, 

 wild doves, wild ducks, wild silkworms! There are no 

 wild dogs nor probably any longer any true wild horses but 

 it is easy for us to see from what wild animals our tame dogs 

 and horses have been derived. 



It is certain from the records of history, of ancient pic- 

 tures and carvings and still more ancient bones and relics, 

 that man has had domesticated animals for the last ten 

 thousand years. How long before that he made a practise 

 of taming and using and perhaps breeding his animal com- 

 panions of pre-historic times we may never know. In the 

 caves where are found the bones and rude implements of 

 early man, that primitive man of the Glacial epoch, there are 

 also found the bones of various animals, but these seem to be 

 the remains of kinds that were either his victims or his con- 

 querors in the raw struggle for existence of those ancient 

 times. However, when the pre-historic Egyptians emerged 

 from the Stone Age into the earliest light of history they 

 appear with cattle, sheep, donkeys and dogs already fully 

 domesticated. 



The domestication of animals is the result of several 

 different factors. First, there may be the simple capture 

 and taming and using of individuals of a wild species. 

 Then comes the rearing in captivity of young of this species, 



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