It has been considered that the donkey was domesticated 6,000 years ago, from the African wild ass (Equus asinus), in northeastern Africa, to which it still bears a great resemblance, including the shoulders' "cross" (the wild donkeys of southwestern US and other areas are just feral bewildered animals). But a n... |
11 March 2008
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1.At a similar body weight, the brain of the domestic cat is with 23.9 % lighter than that of the wild cat, that of the dog with 29 % lighter than that of the wolf, and that of the pig 34 % lighter than that of the wild boar. 2.The gut of the wild cat rarely reached 1.5 m (5 ft) in length, while that of the domestic ... |
21 December 2007
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Could you imagine your life without ham? Pork is essential for the European cuisine. Now, a team has attempted to shed light on how pig husbandry emerged in Europe. Livestock herding appeared in the Near East about 11,000 years ago, when sheep were the first meat-providing domesticated animals. Three hypotheses have ... |
5 September 2007
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During 4 million years of evolution, people just gathered, hunted and fished what nature offered, living just like another intelligent mammal. But about 12,000 years ago, with the Neolithic ("new stone") era, people started to be producers, creating voluntarily their subsistence means and breaking their dependence on... |
24 May 2007
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