Domesticated Animals In Colonial America

When the question of how some animals ended up to be domesticated is raised, dog, which was the first domesticated animal, fascinate scientists. Debates revolve around the issues of “intentionality" — human choice animal to domesticate— and "self-domestication," — animals choice to be domesticated. How you address these issues depends on your knowledge on how domesticated animals changed morphologically and physiologically. Domestication, which was long and complex process, natural selection and artificial selection, may both have functioned at same and different or times. Again, intentionality overlooks significant questions such as what do morphology,

Horses at first we considered wild animals such as zebras are today. Even though they first evolved in north america horses had become extinct in North America. All living horses lived in central america and they ate the long grass that grew there. Also they ate native apples and carrots. That is why horses love carrots and apples these days. Whenever people first arrived in central america the actually hunted horses for their meat and skin and made leather hides and clothes for their families. Around the 4000 BC central americans decided to tame horses to pull farm equipment, and for transportation. The first horse were too small to carry people so they tried to pulled wagons. The first wagon tried to be pulled by a small horse did not turn out very well, the horse was trying to go down a hill and the horse did not have enough power to hold the wagon back and the wagon tumbled over the horse and flipped the wagon. After that incident people decided to breed bigger horses for the bigger wagons. Soon the idea of using horses and wagons to carry people and supplies began to spread out of central america. Horses were even used in the wars. Horses were a big part in our wars they helped us transport faster and get in in higher position for shooting.

Major domesticated animals in the Old World in 1492: horse, cow, pig, sheep, goat, chicken, camel, oxen, cat, dog

    Dogs have been domesticated for over 10,000 years. Food from the humans would bring the dogs to them, and the dogs would bark at predators when they came so the people started to feed the dogs to keep them around. In the 1’st century AD in China Roman mosaics show evidence of the present day Pekingese and Roman ladies also had lap dogs. They believe the dogs warmth cures stomach aches. The earliest evidence of any domesticated dog is a jawbone found in Iraq in a cave about 12,000 years ago. We know it is a jawbone of a dog because a jawbone of a wolf is smaller and the teeth is smaller.

Domestication is a very useful skill that has remained the same for many years. Animals can be used for meat, milk, wool, etc. They are also used as farming tools and transportation. Certain animals much better suited to domestication than others; Jared Diamond calls this the “anna Karenina principle’ (Class Lecture).

The Old World introduced horses, pig, cattle, and sheep, which helped the Europeans while they were settling. Before the arrival of these animals the native people only had turkeys, llamas, alpacas, and dogs. However, years after Columbus’ arrival the cattle and sheep because wild and were everywhere. The Natives were not very pleased with these wild animals, considering that they would destroy food crops. The horse, however, made the lives of the Natives easier by helping them move and kill faster than before. Due to horses, Indians decided to leave farming and become nomadic buffalo hunters which made them a bigger enemy to the settlers. For this reason horses were one of the few things that the native peoples would want from the Europeans.

There are animals that just can not be domesticated because they are they are the opposite of that. Sheep,goat,cow and pigs came from Southwest Asia. Cow also came from India and North America. Also Horse came from Ukraine. All of the domesticated animals came from different places so that made some civilizations work easier because it depends where they live and they may have that animal.

When I was seven years old, I sat on the helm of my father’s fifteen foot fishing boat, the cold salty Puget Sound spray stinging my feet as the tall and proud fins of Orca pods K, J, L rose from the depth and split the choppy waves. Orcas have long ensnared the imagination and fear of people throughout the world. Native American tribes have held Orcas in high regard and some tribes have even view them as the protector of mankind. However, the awe and fear of this apex predator has changed over time. With the rise of the animal captivity for human enjoyment, Orcas have now played a different role in the human world. From the beginning of the century, Orcas began to be captured and sold into major sea animal parks for entertainment. Recently,

owning a horse was a way for an individual to raise their status in society. As the years went on

Plantations have been used effectively long before Europeans settled America. Sugar cane plantations thrived in the Mediterranean to supply sugar for the elites of Europe. Once the European merchants and adventurers began to sail and trade across the Atlantic, they took the plantation idea with them to a string of new settlements mostly with sugar. Although plantations tried to take root in other areas of the world, America was where the roots took up.

These animals have been a domesticated pet since as far back as 450 BC and back in the day were used to hunt rabbits and rodents by farmers and were even household pets to royalty such as Queen Elizabeth.

living and expanding easier, and made domination and conquering easier for European empires. Animals can be good for a civilization, but with those animals comes diseases and germs.

In the mid 1700s, the English Thoroughbred began to make its appearance in America. As they were being imported, the heat racing fad was coming to an end. The classic length races, one to two miles in length and only run once, replaced the high intensity and high stamina

Dogs were also domesticated. Unlike dogs, cows, goats, and pigs were mainly used for food and their coats. However, dogs were used for hunting, and guarding property. Dogs are very useful for hunting because they can smell animals from very far away. They also can provide protection if you get ambushed by a herd of animals or another group of hunters. Being able to leave your property and possessions, knowing that they will be there is a very comforting feeling. One way someone could do this in the Mesolithic period is guard dogs. Dogs were very vicious, strong fighters. If your dog(s) were guarding your property they would guard it or die trying. Another very important advancement of humans.

Research shows that all domesticated dogs arise from their wild ancestor, the wolves. Similar trends are found in other domesticated animals like cats, horses, cows, and birds. Specifically, I will be analyzing the trends in domestication of fowl and poultry. Fowl includes two orders of birds: landfowl (chicken, quail, pheasant) and waterfowl (duck, goose, swan). Fowl typically refers to wild birds. Poultry indicates birds that are domesticated and raised for meat or eggs. By analyzing the behavior, evolution species variation, and domestication of birds, we can determine the traits selected for different species. Through domestication, many breeds of birds have evolved with alterations that could be seen as adaptations to the environment.