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21 hours ago · One study contends that wolves were domesticated 16,300 years ago to serve as livestock in China, whereas another reports that early dogs dating from about 12,000 to 14,000 years ago came from a small strain of gray wolf that inhabited India. Genetic evidence also reveals that dogs did not accompany the first humans to the New World more than ...
5 days ago · Highly intelligent and easily trained, canines were probably the first animals to be domesticated. On the other hand, most species have been (and are still) hunted for their pelts, and in many areas they continue to be hunted, trapped, and otherwise controlled in order to mitigate predation on livestock and game.
1 day ago · “The domestication process and the willingness to associate or avoid humans is the first—and I would argue—the most important piece in the domestication process. You cannot domesticate animals that actively avoid humans. This final statement may be overly simplistic, but it is true.”
5 days ago · We began domesticating a group of Pleistocene wolves around 25,000 years ago, making them the oldest domesticated animal! To date, the dog is the only successfully domesticated large carnivore. To put that in perspective, dogs are older than the first successful agricultural civilization.
4 days ago · The domestication of dogs dates back at least 15,000 years. Archaeological evidence suggests that dogs were the first domesticated animals, and they have been living and working alongside humans ever since. Early humans likely valued dogs for their hunting skills and companionship, forming a bond that has only grown stronger over time. 4.
2 days ago · Both wolves and dogs (Fig. 1 a) were raised in a similar environment. They were separated from their mothers at 10 days of age and then hand-raised by humans for 5 months. The pups were then integrated in packs with other adult conspecifics and housed in large 2,000–8,000m 2 outdoor enclosures.
4 days ago · Wild dingoes have roamed the Australian continent for the last 4,000 years, while archaeological evidence suggests the domestic dog has been mankind’s best friend for 30,000 years.
