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Domestication Flashcards

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What is domestication?

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to adapt to life in intimate association with and to the advantage of humans

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What does it mean for an animal to be wild?

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living in a natural, undomesticated state

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Does being familiar with humans mean they aren’t wild?

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No, it does not remove their wild nature

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What is a feral animal?

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Ancestors had been domesticated but now have reverted and live in a wild state

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When an animal becomes feral, does that mean they are un-domesticated?

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No

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What is a tame animal?

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an animal relatively tolerant of human presence

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What is an introduced species?

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a plant or animal that is not native to a specific location, and is believed to be beneficial to the environment, human economy and/or human health

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What is an invasive species?

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a plant or animal that is not native to a specific location; and has a tendency to spread, which is believed to cause damage to the environment, human economy and/or human health

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What are the characteristics of a domesticated animals?

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bred in captivity for human benefit, complete control of breeding/reproduction, control territory, control food supply

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How do domesticated animals benefit humans?

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food, companionship, or work

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What does it mean for humans to have control of breeding of domesticated animals?

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humans control breeding and therefore the traits of the animals

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What does it mean for humans to control the territory of domesticated animals?

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control where the animal lives

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What does it mean for humans to control the food supply of domesticated animals?

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control their nutrition and stabilizers of food economy

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What was vital to the development of human civilization? How?

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domestication; increase quantity of food available, decrease labor required, draft, development of market economies (bartering), primary factor in warfare

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How many mammalian species are there?

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5,488

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17
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How many bird species and sub species?

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10,000 species; 22,000 sub species

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How many domesticated species are there? Why?

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15-20; domestication takes a long time, the animals already domesticated were more common in areas compared to others, not all animals benefit humans

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What are the criteria for domestication?

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diet, growth rate, breed in captivity, disposition, less likely to panic, size, social hierarchy

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Why is diet a criteria of domestication?

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it’s easier if they eat a variety of things

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Why is growth rate a criteria of domestication?

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want them to mature rapidly

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Why is being able to be bred in captivity a criteria of domestication?

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reproduction can be controlled, and thus traits can be controlled

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Why is disposition a criteria of domestication?

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strong nerves, have to have right temperament to humans

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Why is being less likely to panic a criteria of domestication?

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important to not panic in human presence

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Why is size a criteria of domestication?

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smaller animals are easier to handle, size is important for their use

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Why is social hierarchy a criteria of domestication?

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they have to understand that humans are the leaders

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How are there so many differences within an animal species if they came from the same ancestors?

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variation among genes is then bred, the environment, lose genes not needed over time (like how their brain decreases in size as they become domesticated)

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When were dogs domesticated?

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10,000-12,000 years ago

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What animal were dogs domesticated from? From where?

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Wolves (Arabian, Chinese, Indian, European)

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What are the two theories of dog domestication? Which is most likely?

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1-Humans domesticated wolves by picking them and taking them home and overtime breeding certain traits
2- Wolves domesticated themselves by approaching human hunter-gatherers for food

Theory 2 is most likely

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31
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What animal was the best at being domesticated? Why?

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dogs; genomes

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What are the stages of dog domesitcation?

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1- self domestication
2- strict captivity (limit breeding)
3- intentional breeding 
4- trait standardization
5- eliminate wild species (genes)
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What does limiting breeding/strict captivity mean?

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limit unintentional breeding, like what is done in the wild

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What is intentional breeding?

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breeding for specific traits, can use inbreeding

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What is trait standardization?

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fixing the genomes (such as black body dog x white face dog = black body white faced dog), inbreeding is used

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What animals were used in the domestication study Who did it?

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silver foxes; Dmitri Belyaev

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37
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What selection was made in the domestication study?

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direct selection for “temperament”

38
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What was the result of the domestication study?

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they had shorter legs, dog hair coat, barking, wagging and curled tail, smaller teeth, shorter muzzle, play in adulthood, and have 2 estrous cycles

39
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What is a estrous cycle?

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the reproductive cycle

40
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What was the first domesticated animal?

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dog

41
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What are some traits of domesticated dogs?

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most diversified domesticated animal (phenotypically), the most tortured genetically, capable of reverting to a feral type

42
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How are dog genes different?

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some genes activated sooner, some remain activated longer, and some are never activated

43
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How are dogs’ brain capacity different?

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dogs with “jobs” retain a higher proportion of brain capacity (herding, working, bird), dog without “jobs” have proportionally smaller capacity

44
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What are the magnificent 7?

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first animals domesticated

45
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What is the order of the magnificent 7?

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dog, goat, sheep, cattle, pig, horse, cat (goat and sheep, and then cattle and pig happened around the same time)

46
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Are the magnificent 7 more carnivores or herbivores? Why?

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herbivores; they eat plants and are easier to keep fed then animals that eat other animals

47
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What is the domestication process of herbavores?

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shift from pure hunting to herd management, control movement of herds, selective removal of young males

48
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Why does selective breeding of young males occur? For what does it occur?

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alters sex ratio, alters age structure, breeding, isolation from wild type; herbivore domestication

49
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Why were sheep and goats domesticated?

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size, highly gregarious (easy to follow instruction and submit to leadership), wide utilization of feed resources, variety of useful products

50
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What products do sheep and goats provide?

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meat, milk, leather, fiber (wool and hair)

51
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Sheep origins?

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Mouflon in Eurasia

52
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Goat origins?

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Wild goats in Eurasia and Middle East

53
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What does it mean that goats and sheep are highly specialized?

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They were bred to create species that provide specific things (like sheep just for wool and sheep just for meat)

54
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Cattle origin?

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Eurasia

55
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What the ancestor of cattle?

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Auroch (giant wild ox)

56
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Cattle products?

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milk, meat, leather, draft

57
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What impact did cattle have on social importance?

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language development (alphabet, “stock market, bull market”

58
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What impact did cattle have on source of wealth?

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bartering, mobile food storage, development of US west

59
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What impact did cattle have on sacred status?

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Egyptian gods Hathor (cow) and Apis (bull), India

60
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What other bovines besides cattle are domesticated?

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Asian water buffalo, yaks

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What products do Asian water buffalo provide?

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work, meat, and milk; however they aren’t tolerant to heat and wallow in mud

62
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What products do Yaks provide?

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work, milk, meat, hides for warm clothing

63
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Where are Yaks found?

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high mountains of Tibet, Nepal, Mongolia (wild and domestic animals in same location)

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Are swine herbivores or carnivores? What other animal is a pig stomach’s similar to?

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omnivores (stomach is similar to humans)

65
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Where do swine originate from? What kind?

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Eurasia; European wild boar and East Indian pig

66
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What were swine considered before they were domesticated?

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pests; they were hunted for control as much as for food during early farming periods

67
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What type of environment do domesticated pigs like? Why?

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housing/pens; they aren’t a good herding animal

68
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Why were swine domesticated?

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prolificacy in suitable environment, value

69
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What products do swine provide?

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meat, lard, and leather

70
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What environment are swine best suited to? Why?

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tropical to temperate environments, they lack sweat glands

71
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What does prolificacy mean?

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ability to produce a lot of offspring

72
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What two explorers spread the location of swine? What happened?

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Columbus and Hernando De Soto; population grew and spread very quickly

73
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Where do true wild horses still remain?

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Ukraine and China, Zebra’s in Africa, Wild donkeys in Africa (feral in US), Mustang (feral in US), Przewalski Horse in Mongolia

74
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What do horses and donkeys provide?

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meat, milk, leather, warfare (key component to almost all wars), draft (second to cattle)

75
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What are horses and donkeys currently used for?

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draft and transportation, recreational riding is limited to only a few countries

76
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What are the 4 types of Camelids?

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Dromedary Camel, Llama, Bactrian Camel, Alpaca

77
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What are dromedary camels used for?

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milk, meat, leather, draft

78
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What products do Llamas provide?

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pack, meat, milk, leather

79
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What are alpacas used for?

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fiber, meat, milk, leather

80
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What are Bactrian camels used for?

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adapted to colder climates because of two humps (fat storage)

81
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How were cats domesticated?

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self-domestication

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What kind of relationship do cats have with humans?

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symbiotic, commensal, exploitive captives (biological term), and pet concept (affluent societies)

83
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What is symbiotic relationship?

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mutually beneficial relationship

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What is a commensal relationship?

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one benefits from the other, the other is unaffected

85
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What does the term exploitive captives mean?

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captives of humans, but exploiting this relationship to their own ends rather than suffering from it

86
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Which of the magnificent 7 is the least domesticated?

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cats

87
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What animal did cats originate from?

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European and African/Asian wildcat

88
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What animal did chickens originate from?

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Asian Jungle Fowl

89
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What products do chickens provide?

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meat, eggs, feathers

90
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How were chickens domesticated?

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humans, NOT self-domestication

91
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How many chicken breeds are there?

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around 400

92
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Do wild turkeys still exist?

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yes

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