Domestic or wild animal
A domesticated animal is any animal that depends on a human for food, water and shelter this includes farm animals such as cattle, horses, sheep, chickens, goats, dogs and cats.
There are relatively few domesticated animals compared to the huge number of species on the planet. As well as the obvious there are also a couple of species of insect (e.g. the silk worm) that are classified as domesticated. Certain birds, besides chickens and fish, are also considered domestic, even a species of reptiles and some amphibians, turtles.
Domesticated animals also need to be able to breed under human in a captive conditions. Therefore the Indian Elephant, although tamed, is not domestic. There are usually captured from wild bred animals.
Animal domestication has played a huge role in the development of differing human civilizations. Horses and camels in Africa, Asia and Europe vs the Llamas and Alpacas in America provide an interesting example!
In concluding, modern domestic animals are recognizable by the selective breeding they have been subjected to over generations of human interference. Thus the cows looks little like the Bovines of a cave paintings and it has become hard to recognize the Dachshund as a descendant of the wolf!
A domesticated animal is any animal that depends on a human for food, water and shelter this includes farm animals such as cattle, horses, sheep, chickens, goats, dogs and cats.
There are relatively few domesticated animals compared to the huge number of species on the planet. As well as the obvious there are also a couple of species of insect (e.g. the silk worm) that are classified as domesticated. Certain birds, besides chickens and fish, are also considered domestic, even a species of reptiles and some amphibians, turtles.
Domesticated animals also need to be able to breed under human in a captive conditions. Therefore the Indian Elephant, although tamed, is not domestic. There are usually captured from wild bred animals.
There are relatively few domesticated animals compared to the huge number of species on the planet. As well as the obvious there are also a couple of species of insect (e.g. the silk worm) that are classified as domesticated. Certain birds, besides chickens and fish, are also considered domestic, even a species of reptiles and some amphibians, turtles.
Domesticated animals also need to be able to breed under human in a captive conditions. Therefore the Indian Elephant, although tamed, is not domestic. There are usually captured from wild bred animals.
Animal domestication has played a huge role in the development of differing human civilizations. Horses and camels in Africa, Asia and Europe vs the Llamas and Alpacas in America provide an interesting example!
In concluding, modern domestic animals are recognizable by the selective breeding they have been subjected to over generations of human interference. Thus the cows looks little like the Bovines of a cave paintings and it has become hard to recognize the Dachshund as a descendant of the wolf!
A domesticated animal is any animal that depends on a human for food, water and shelter this includes farm animals such as cattle, horses, sheep, chickens, goats, dogs and cats.
There are relatively few domesticated animals compared to the huge number of species on the planet. As well as the obvious there are also a couple of species of insect (e.g. the silk worm) that are classified as domesticated. Certain birds, besides chickens and fish, are also considered domestic, even a species of reptiles and some amphibians, turtles.
Domesticated animals also need to be able to breed under human in a captive conditions. Therefore the Indian Elephant, although tamed, is not domestic. There are usually captured from wild bred animals.