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  2. Wolves as pets and working animals - Wikipedia

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    Wolves are sometimes kept as exotic pets, and in some rarer occasions, as working animals. Although closely related to domesticated dogs, wolves do not show the same tractability as dogs in living alongside humans, and generally, a greater amount of effort is required in order to obtain the same amount of reliability. Wolves also need much more ...

  3. Domestication of vertebrates - Wikipedia

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    Humans did not intend to domesticate animals from, or at least they did not envision a domesticated animal resulting from, either the commensal or prey pathways. In both of these cases, humans became entangled with these species as the relationship between them, and the human role in their survival and reproduction, intensified. [7]

  4. Self-domestication - Wikipedia

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    Experiment conducted by the University of Barcelona to demonstrate the hypothesis of self-domestication. [1]Self-domestication is a scientific hypothesis that suggests that, similar to domesticated animals, there has been a process of artificial selection among members of the human species conducted by humans themselves. [2]

  5. From the wild to the farm: the domestication of animals ... - AOL

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    Well, humans decided to tame some of them as pets and others for more appetizing reasons many years ago. SEE ALSO: Meet the happiest animal on Earth. 14-30,000 BC: Dogs. 8500 BC: Sheep and Cats.

  6. Domestication - Wikipedia

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    Domestication (not to be confused with the taming of an individual animal [3] [4] [5]), is from the Latin domesticus, 'belonging to the house'. [6] The term remained loosely defined until the 21st century, when the American archaeologist Melinda A. Zeder defined it as a long-term relationship in which humans take over control and care of another organism to gain a predictable supply of a ...

  7. Domestication of the dog - Wikipedia

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    The wolves most likely drawn to human camps were the less-aggressive, subdominant pack members with lowered flight response, higher stress thresholds and less wary around humans, which was the start of a process known as self-domestication, making them better candidates for further domestication.

  8. 9 discoveries that have fundamentally altered our ... - AOL

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    Photography techniques and virtual reality also bring ancient art to life in new ways. Humans domesticated dogs before any other animal. A 1,000-year-old mummified dog found in Mexico City in 2012.

  9. Domestication syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Domestication syndrome refers to two sets of phenotypic traits that are common to either domesticated plants [1] [2] or domesticated animals. [ 3 ] Domesticated animals tend to be smaller and less aggressive than their wild counterparts; they may also have floppy ears, variations to coat color, a smaller brain, and a shorter muzzle.