Thursday, February 03, 2011

Guns, Germs, and Steel 4

Today in class we didn't get much of the video done but what we did see was about domesticated animals. Jared Diamond researched that their are about 148  large animals that weigh over 100 pounds that can domesticated. Out of those 148 animals their have only been fourteen animals that have been domesticated. Those fourteen animals are goats, sheep, pigs, cows, horses, donkeys, 2 kinds of camels, water buffalo, llamas, reindeer, yaks, mithuns, bali cattle. People have tried to domesticate the elephant but you would need to grow a lot of food just to feed it. These fourteen are the only animals capable of living on a farm and working with humans. The llama was found from South America, but all the other thirteen animals were found in parts of the middle east, Europe, and Asia.

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