Another question I had was the idea of the history of animal domestication. I found a good website to help me answer this question. The website is called jyi.org and the article I read was “Our Furry Friends: The History of Animal Domestication” written by Jessica Lear. This website discusses the domestication of all animals from dogs and cats to elephants and zebras.
Animals play a big part in human society. Especially farm animals, who provide us with food and produce. The first farm animals to be domesticated were sheep back in 10,000 BC. They were used for their meat, coat, and milk. The more popular farm animal, pigs, were domesticated around the same time, “Pigs were domesticated around the same time as sheep….tend to .be domesticated …show more content…
Even though these kind of animals aren’t pets, they’re still domesticated. They aren’t our pets since they’re certain factors that go into the animal being able to be domesticated in that way. Lear mentions some including temperament that makes the animal unlikely to panic, modifiable social hierarchy, and pleasant disposition. Certain animals can’t fit the criteria of being a pet, so you wouldn’t see warthogs as being pets since they have an aggressive nature. In my opinion, certain animals as pets also has to do with the appearance of the animal and how easy it would be to take care of. One animal that isn’t a pet but is domesticated is an elephant. They were found to be serving humans as far back as 2,000 BC. Elephants aren’t pets because they don’t fit in with the certain, “They can be taught many behaviors and may act under command of humans, but are still known to have outbreaks of temper”(Lear). You can control elephants but due to their outbreaks, they wouldn’t be suitable to be a pet. I think it would be sweet to have an elephant as a pet but I surely wouldn’t want it to crush me when it was mad. Animals play a huge part in our lives and is seen throughout history.

This article provided me accurate and good information about the domestication of animals and pets and further helped answer my question about the domestication of animals. This article is credible because the writer is an undergraduate at West Virginia University and the website is a .org. This article helped my research and was very interesting to read