The Taming Of The Shrew

The few wild animals can be tamed. Scientists say that most wild species do not get along with people, because it’s built into their genetic code.

Daisy Mae – Vietnamese potbellied pig dwarf – lazily collapsed in his chair like a mistress. This home favorite has become a full member of the family of West St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.

This photograph depicts an experiment, conducted at Duke University in the dog. The purpose of the experiment was to determine the degree of interaction with an animal person. Under the plastic buckets hidden food that the animal can not smell the smell. One of those people pointing the finger at the bucket, long fed the animal and took care of him, and the second – a stranger. Whose help will react dog?

Norwegian red cows napping on a bed in a small cooperative dairy farm in Lillehammer, Norway. Laws to improve living conditions for animals here require farmers to provide “soft cover”, where the cows should be based. Here’s an example of taking care of our little show the Norwegian government.

Two extremes. Both chickens for eight weeks of age. But, as we see the difference in their size and weight – on the face. This couple demonstrates the effectiveness of methods of cultivation of large-scale rock geneticist Paul and Virginia Tech Sidzhelem. “We only use artificial selection as a tool to follow natural selection. We just gipertrofiruem it. “

Incredible Pets. Lyudmila Trut and other members of the Novosibirsk Institute of Cytology needed to grow several generations of foxes to be drawn from these animals, such as friendly to man home pets, like dogs.

Turning point. In this picture we see two wolves and hybrid wolves and dogs (on the steps of the trailer), which are going to carry from the nursery of wolves born in captivity, to demonstrate to NII. This is truly a watershed moment in the development of new breeds of dogs.

Sarah Davis, of West St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S., lying on the sofa with his pig Daisy Mae. When local officials said Sarah and her partner Anthony Dzhastramu that they can not keep a blind Vietnamese potbellied houses a pig weighing 70 kg, the couple wrote a petition to eleven pages, to lift the ban. Numerous studies confirm that the person has cognitive and emotional connection with dogs. Does the same thing with regard to pigs is not yet known.

All hen hen. Wild red birds that live in the jungle, huddled together in a pile. The photo was taken in Statsboro, Georgia. Several representatives of this breed were brought here in the early 60s from the central part of India. These birds – the last of its kind in the genetic sense. As soon as people continue to colonize the wild lands of South Asia, these birds breed with domestic chickens, contaminating the genotype. According to scientists, this endangered species is the ancestor of domestic chickens.

Come on, take me home. Homeless cats roam the streets of Baltimore. It is believed that wild cats are the only animals that have domesticated themselves. They were attracted rodents, plagued early agricultural settlements. The first domestic cats appeared about 10,000 years ago.

The ancient connection. Woman milking a mare in a small village in southern Kazakhstan Kogershin. Recent archaeological studies have shown that people from the steppes of Eurasia, Botha was the first who managed to tame horses. The first domestic horses appeared 5500 years ago.