. Domesticated animals and plants; a brief treatise upon the origin and development of domesticated races, with special reference to the methods of improvement. Breeding; Domestic animals; Plants, Cultivated; Animals, Domestic; Breeding; Plants. CHAPTER XVII ORIGIN OF DOMESTICATED ANIMALS Domesticated mammals ⢠The dog ⢠The horse ⢠The ass ⢠The ox ⢠The sheep ⢠The goat ⢠The pig ⢠The cat â Domesticated birds ⢠The hen ⢠The goose ⢠The duck ⢠The turkey ⢠The peacock ⢠The swan ⢠The guinea fowl ⢠Additional races and semidomestication ⢠Unwelcome domestication As the subj
. Domesticated animals and plants; a brief treatise upon the origin and development of domesticated races, with special reference to the methods of improvement. Breeding; Domestic animals; Plants, Cultivated; Animals, Domestic; Breeding; Plants. CHAPTER XVII ORIGIN OF DOMESTICATED ANIMALS Domesticated mammals ⢠The dog ⢠The horse ⢠The ass ⢠The ox ⢠The sheep ⢠The goat ⢠The pig ⢠The cat â Domesticated birds ⢠The hen ⢠The goose ⢠The duck ⢠The turkey ⢠The peacock ⢠The swan ⢠The guinea fowl ⢠Additional races and semidomestication ⢠Unwelcome domestication As the subject matter of Part II constitutes an application of the principles discussed in the early chapters, we are ready at once to proceed, without special introduction, to the detailed study of the origin of special races of domesticated animals. Domesticated Mammals The dog (Canis famiUaris). Of all the wild animals that have been brought into the service of man, some form of dog was undoubtedly the first, for reasons brought out in the chapter, How Animals came to be Domesticated. His exact origin is of course un- known, but he has numerous wild relatives in all parts of the world, not only within historic times but even to the present day. The near- est of these are the wolf and the jackal in their various forms, both of which are said to breed freely with the domes- tic dog upon opportunity, and both of which, more especially the wolf, have been frequently domesticated. The Indian, for example, kept numerous ''dogs," mostly developed from the 207. Fig. 34. The collie, one of the finest domesticated types. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Davenport, E. (Eugene), 1856-1941. Boston, New York : Ginn and company
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