AVS 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Status Symbol, Middle Ages, Promiscuity
8 Jan 2017
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Over 2/3 of households have cats and/or dogs in us. Dog services: police dogs (bomb, drug), trackers, herders, search and rescue, guard animals, sled dogs. Igloo- companion of richard e. byrd who flew over north and south poles. Pet food industry is over . 4 bill. Animals are domesticated when they are controlled by humans (breeding) and when they rely on humans: food and water, breeding, care. Dogs: start of domestication occurs when selection is done through mating. First animal that was domesticated 15,000 yrs ago in china (based on dna testing being the most variable: traveled w/humans to alaska 12,000 yrs ago. Share genetics w/ old world eurasian gray wolf: both wolves and dogs have 39 pairs of xsomes. Over time domestication dog behavior changed: more docile, more casual response to stimulus, promiscuity. Originally domesticated about 6,000 yrs ago in egypt. Believed incarnations of goddesses: status symbol, treated as well as humans even in death.
