Ancient Animal Jobs
This animals FIRST purpose was to plow fields.
What is a Horse/Donkey?
This is one reason humans domesticate animals: it provides a more stable supply of food and this.
What is clothing?
A farmer raises goats. The goats provide milk and meat, but the farmer also collects their fiber to make textiles. What are two roles these animals have?
What are food production and fiber production?
This type of diet makes it harder to domesticate animals.
What is the carnivore diet?
This characteristic would be especially important if humans want an animal population to increase quickly and reliably.
What is the ability to reproduce successfully?
This is one reason humans first domesticated animals for nutritional purposes.
What is food?
During 9/11/2001 Bretagne, a golden retriever, spent 10 days looking through the rubble for victims and later went on to responding to hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Later on she went to retire from this type of work and become a reading assistance dog.
What is a search and rescue dog?
You are choosing between two animals. Animal A becomes sexually mature at 6 months, while Animal B does not become sexually mature until 3 years old. Which animal has an advantage for domestication based on this characteristic?
What is Animal A?
After domestication, animals generally became more of this on humans.
What is dependent?
An animal that cannot do this successfully in captivity would be difficult to domesticate.
What is reproduce?
This animal role provides clothes to humans through use of their outer coating?
What is Fiber Production?
A dog visits a hospital and is trained to provide comfort to patients but is not trained to perform specific disability-related tasks.
What is a therapy dog?
You are stranded on an island with dogs, pigs, cattle, horses, sheep, goats, and cats. You need an animal that can provide food quickly. Which characteristic would be especially important to consider?
What is reproduction/number of offspring?
An animal that produces several offspring at a time could help humans build a population more quickly than an animal that produces only one offspring. This characteristic refers to this.
What is number of offspring?
This characteristic of an animal's personality can determine whether it panics easily.
What is Temperament?
This invention replaced animals' role in farming to tend the fields.
What is a tractor?
Service or companion animals that reduces anxiety, stress, or depression enhances what in a human?
What is psychological well being?
You are choosing an animal to domesticate. It can reproduce in captivity, matures quickly, produces several offspring, and has a calm temperament. What do these traits suggest about the animal?
What is a good candidate for domestication?
This is one of the reasons humans domesticated animals to create more specialization of animals
What is selective breeding?
An animal that has a high growth rate would generally be more useful for domestication because humans could reach this stage sooner.
What is adulthood/maturity?
The increase of this caused dogs to be less used for hunting and gathering.
What is modern agriculture?
This rabbit is known to produce hair that is used to make clothes.
What is Angora?
You are trying to establish a population of domesticated animals. Animal A produces 8 offspring at a time, while Animal B usually produces only 1. Which animal has an disadvantage?
What is animal B?
We domesticated animals to create less nomadic cultures and more of what?
Population Density
List the 6 characteristics of domestication.
What is Diet, Social Hierarchy, Temperament, Disposition, Ability to breed in captivity and growth rate.