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Peru, who tamed the wild guanaco, and produced 
from it the two breeds respectively known as the 
lama and the alpaca, the former being a long-limbed 
and comparatively short-haired animal adapted for 
riding and carrying burdens, while the latter is a 
shorter-legged type, with a long fleecy coat, and 
served as a source of material for raiment and 
likewise as food. The Incas also domesticated one of 
the wild species of cavies, from which they evolved 
the ancestors of the modern guinea-pig. 
In contrast to this innate incapacity for taming 
and domesticating wild animals characteristic of the 
natives of Ethiopian Africa and North America, is 
the faculty which the Malays and many other 
Eastern nations — together probably with many of 
the prehistoric tribes of Europe — have displayed in 
bringing the denizens of the forests and plains under 
human subjection, Asiatics have indeed succeeded 
in domesticating more or less completely several 
species of horned cattle. In the Malay countries 
they have, for instance, tamed the bantin ; and if, 
as suggested above, humped cattle are derived from 
that source, they have likewise so modified its 
descendants that it requires considerable imagination 
to recognise the resemblances between the wild and 
the tame types. The gayal is another domesticated 
species, which, as shown below, there is good reason 
to regard as a derivative from the gaur, or seladang, 
but which in any case must have been originally 
tamed by the natives of the Indo-Burmese countries. 
Throughout India and Malaya we have tamed buffa- 
loes, the little-altered descendants of a third species, 
while the Tatars of the highlands of Tibet have 
subdued yet another and widely different species, 
