ADSC4010-domestication+farm demographics

what are farmer demographics shifting towards?

Farmers are aging (avg 60) yet diversity has increased

how have farm sizes changed? why?

Farms are larger now. farms need to be larger to turn a profit.

what was the first domesticated species?

Wolves roughly 12000 years ago.

was domestication intentional?

to you it was. we captured wolves and bred them similarly to the fox farm experiment.

what was our first domesticated food animal? why?

sheep/goats 10000 years ago. They were small and gregarious. They also herd easily.

what makes a species good for domestication?

Multi purpose

 Adaptable / hardy

 Reproduce in captivity, polygamous

 Social hierarchy

 Diet (herbivore, omnivore)

 Non competitive

 Useful

why cant some species be domesticated?

Too long of period between births

Too dangerous

Too expensive

Too useless

How can you tell a animal is domesticated?

Neoteny-keeping of juvenile traits into adulthood

Floppy ears

Piebald spots

behavior changes

reproductive shift

feral vs wild

feral animals at one point were domesticated. Ex:feral hogs

were the fox farm foxes domesticated?

You believe they were. They had physical changes (piebald, floppy ears), personalitly shifts, and exibited neotany. They were also not inbred nearly as bad as people claim.

what species were helped vs destroyed by domestication?

cows completely lost their wild type but horses would have likely went extinct without us.