. Cyclopedia of farm animals. Domestic animals; Animal products. THE DOMESTICATION OF ANIMALS. Fig. 2. Variation in the horse, from draft horse to trotter, coach, Celtic pony and Shetland pony. (2) The second requirement needs no explanation. For example, take the horse. While probably originally a native of an open country and leading the freest of lives and easily reverting to wildness, yet in domestication it will live to healthful old age in stables or other enclosures, and in unnatural con- ditions. It will live in mines without light for years, and under the artificial conditions of citi
. Cyclopedia of farm animals. Domestic animals; Animal products. THE DOMESTICATION OF ANIMALS. Fig. 2. Variation in the horse, from draft horse to trotter, coach, Celtic pony and Shetland pony. (2) The second requirement needs no explanation. For example, take the horse. While probably originally a native of an open country and leading the freest of lives and easily reverting to wildness, yet in domestication it will live to healthful old age in stables or other enclosures, and in unnatural con- ditions. It will live in mines without light for years, and under the artificial conditions of cities for a longer term of life than it ever could have done as a wild horse. During the long ages and the many generations that they have been bred by man, some animals have slowly become adapted so completely to the conditions man has imposed that now many kinds could not exist for two generations if turned loose in any large country of the world, to make their own living and to bring their young to maturity. (3) Their instincts and mental requirements have been modified. Some have lost instincts that were useful in their wild state but have now become reduced from lack of use. Thus they become, as a whole, a new class depending on mankind. He is, in one sense, their creator. They would not have existed but for him. He provides their parents ; he furnishes them their food ; he protects them from the dangers that await them in nature ; he builds shelter from storms for them; he educates doctors to cure them when ill, and to prevent their epizootic diseases. They are an artificial production. Nature has provided man with the raw material; he has turned this to a more ideal and useful animal for his purposes. It is tamer to deal with ; it is less intelligent as a whole than the wild creature that was its ancestor. Its form, its strength, its size, its various physical characteristics and mental capacities have been molded, the better to suit the environment and the better to serve
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