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parts of the world much as horses and wheat are 

 farmed in other parts, and may in a sense be re- 

 garded as domesticated animals. The sponge and 

 oyster "farms" are on the sea-floors. 



Leaving out sponges and oysters and the three 

 insects which have just been mentioned, all of the 

 animals that man has associated with himself as 

 domesticated animals belong to the back-boned 

 crowd, that is, are vertebrates. And if the gold- 

 fish and turtle are omitted, only the ivarm-hlooded 

 birds and mammals are represented among human 

 domestics. By far the greatest number and most 

 important of these belong to the order of hoofed 

 animals, or ungulates. Excepting the cat and dog, 

 all are primarily vegetable feeders. All of the 

 great burden-bearing races are strict vegetarians. 



By far the largest number of domesticated an- 

 imals are of Asiatic origin : the horse, donkey, dog, 

 mule, water-buffalo, sheep, goat, camel, elephant, 

 honey-bee, silk-moth, chicken, peafowl, goose, 

 duck, swan, and gold-fish. The ox, pigeon, rein- 

 deer, and pig are from Europe. America fur- 

 nished the turkey, alpaca, llama, guinea-pig, and 

 cochineal bug; while the cat, canary, and guinea- 

 hen are from Africa. The exceedingly large con- 

 tribution from Asia is not due to the large size of 

 this continent nor to the greater variety of animal 

 life there, but to the fact that Asia was man's na- 

 tive continent, the continent on which the human 

 ■ species probably originated, the continent, at any 



