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    The history of the domestic sheep goes back to between 11,000 and 9,000 BC, and the domestication of the wild mouflon in ancient Mesopotamia. Sheep are...
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    sheep as a lamb. Sheep are most likely descended from the wild mouflon of Europe and Asia, with Iran being a geographic envelope of the domestication...
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    traits used to define the animal domestication syndrome is inconsistent. Domestication should not be confused with taming. Taming is the conditioned behavioral...
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    shorter muzzle. Domestication traits are generally fixed within all domesticates, and were selected during the initial episode of domestication of that animal...
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    riding. The date of the domestication of the horse depends to some degree upon the definition of "domestication". Some zoologists define "domestication" as...
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    mountains, in the Middle East and Central Asia — were one of the first species domesticated by modern humans, with the date of domestication generally considered...
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  • gives a list of domesticated animals, also including a list of animals which are or may be currently undergoing the process of domestication and animals...
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    Goat (redirect from Domesticated goat)
    breeds of goat. It is one of the oldest domesticated species of animal, according to archaeological evidence that its earliest domestication occurred...
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    The domestication of the dog was the process which led to the domestic dog. This included the dog's genetic divergence from the wolf, its domestication...
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    Orozco-terWengel, Pablo (20 March 2018). "New light shed on the domestication history of sheep and goats". Cardiff University. McTavish, E.J.; Decker, J...
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    A sheep–goat hybrid (called a geep in popular media or sometimes a shoat) is the offspring of a sheep and a goat. While sheep and goats are similar and...
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    The Drenthe Heath Sheep (Drents Heideschaap, Dutch) is a domesticated breed of sheep originating in the Netherlands. It is raised primarily for vegetation...
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    flax. Domestication was a slow process that unfolded across multiple regions, and was preceded by centuries if not millennia of pre-domestication cultivation...
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    domesticated breeds of sheep. Polycerate (multi-horned) sheep breeds include the Hebridean, Icelandic, Jacob, Manx Loaghtan, and the Navajo-Churro. Horns...
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  • Earliest dates suggested for the domestication of the sheep, in Mesopotamia. 12.9 kya - 11.7 kya: The Younger Dryas, a period of sudden cooling and return...
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    The cattle dog has long worked alongside humans, with the start of herding activities roughly being around the time of the domestication of the sheep...
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  • have just one of several significant difficulties that prevent domestication. He argues that all large mammals that could be domesticated, have been.: 168–174 ...
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    The Bizet [bi.ze] is a domesticated breed of sheep originating from France. It grows wool but is primarily raised for meat. In 1952, the Bizet was introduced...
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    Neolithic (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    documented of the domestication of wheat and barley, rapidly followed by that of goats, sheep, and cattle. In April 2006, it was announced in the scientific...
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    it is believed that the domestication of the donkey was accomplished long after the domestication of cattle, sheep and goats in the seventh and eighth...
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  • refer to: An island in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland: Boreray, North Uist Boreray, St Kilda A domesticated animal: Boreray sheep This disambiguation page...
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    Assaf is a breed of domesticated sheep from Israel. The Assaf sheep is the product of crossbreeding the Awassi and East Friesian. The Assaf is a dual purpose...
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    Pig (redirect from Domesticated Pig)
    Mirte (26 December 2018). "A Genomics Perspective on Pig Domestication". Animal Domestication. IntechOpen. doi:10.5772/intechopen.82646. ISBN 978-1-83880-174-8...
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  • The Baluchi is a domesticated breed of sheep originating from now southwest Pakistan, Baluchistan, eastern Iran and southern Afghanistan. It is a member...
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  • The Balkhi is a domesticated breed of sheep found in Afghanistan and North-western Pakistan. This breed is of the fat-tailed mutton type. Though this...
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  • Arabi is a domesticated breed of fat-tailed sheep from southwestern Iran, southern Iraq and northeastern Arabia and Egypt. Though it does grow wool, it...
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    Capra (genus) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the New International Encyclopedia)
    domestic goat (Capra hircus) is a domesticated species derived from the wild goat (Capra aegagrus). Evidence of goat domestication dates back more than 8,500...
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  • until the ceramic Neolithic. Only dog and pig bones show morphological signs of domestication (size reduction), sheep, goat and cattle bones are in the size...
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    upper Mesopotamia from the Neolithic era. Cheese – Possibly as early as 8000  BCE after the domestication of the Sheep in the Fertile Crescent Brânză...
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    were domesticated from wild aurochs progenitors in central Anatolia, the Levant and Western Iran. A separate domestication event occurred in the Indian...
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