ANS 42 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Feather-Plucking, Animal Husbandry
13 Jan 2017
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Domestication & Background
1. Copaio aials: politially orret ter for pet
2. Oxford English Dictionary
a. pet: ay aial that is domesticated or tamed and kept as a favorite, treated with
indulgence and fondness
b. Some have a purpose or are used for economic reasons and were converted into pets
3. Keeping animals helped hunting in the past. They were given to children to help them
a. The child learned/watched the animal and knew more about them
4. Companion animals fulfill an affiliate need of humans
a. Implied benefit of keeping animals and having interaction
b. Reducing heartrate and blood pressure and produce cardiovascular benefits for humans
with pets
5. 63% of American households have companion animals
a. More households with dogs
b. However, more cats per household than dogs
6. Entire industry revolved around companion animals
7. Archaeozoologist
a. Domesticated species is one that has been bred in captivity for purposes of economic
profit to humans and humans maintain complete mastery over breeding, territory, and
food supply.
b. These are adaptations to live in a human controlled environment
c. Some species are not adapted to living with humans and have strange behaviors
i. Example: feather picking in birds
8. Tamed: the state i whih a aial’s tedeies to flee fro huas has ee gradually
reduced or eliminated
a. Word used for a single individual
b. Example: decrease in flight distance
9. Domesticated: word used for a certain species
a. Difficult to domesticate if it will not let humans approach
b. Learned behavior
c. Biologically different than ancestors
i. Human select traits and adaptations of the animals
ii. Captive animals are not considered domesticated
10. Continuum between wild and domesticated
a. Takes approximately 30 generations
b. Must be living well and cope with human condition
11. Feral: an animal that belongs to a domesticated species that has been released and no longer
reliant upon or integrated into human society (can be tame)
a. Dingo: wild, then domesticated, then biologically different, and then wild again
12. Natural (Darwinian) evolution process is parallel with domesticating evolution process
13. Evidence at archeological sites
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