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  2. Timeline of animal welfare and rights in the United States

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    European settlers introduce domesticated cows, pigs, sheep, chickens, goats, and horses to the Americas. [4] 1641: The first known animal welfare statutes in North America - regulations against “Tirranny or Crueltie” toward domestic animals - are included in the Massachusetts Body of Liberties. [5] 1828

  3. Domestication of the horse - Wikipedia

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    Ten graves contained parts of lower horse legs; two of these also contained the bones of domesticated cattle and sheep. At least 52 domesticated sheep or goats, 23 domesticated cattle, and 11 horses were sacrificed at Khvalynsk. The inclusion of horses with cattle and sheep and the exclusion of obviously wild animals together suggest that ...

  4. Timeline of animal welfare and rights - Wikipedia

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    This has been described as a ban on battery cages, but battery cages giving 116 square inches per hen were allowed under the law. [65] [66] 2009 In 2009, Bolivia became the first country to ban all animal use in circuses. [67] 2009

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

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    A timeline of domesticated animals Ever wondered when those animals on the farm made it to the farm? Well, humans decided to tame some of them as pets and others for more appetizing reasons many ...

  6. Domestication of vertebrates - Wikipedia

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    Two thousand years later, humped zebu cattle were domesticated in what is today Baluchistan in Pakistan. In East Asia 8,000 years ago, pigs were domesticated from wild boar that were genetically different from those found in the Fertile Crescent. The horse was domesticated on the Central Asian steppe 5,500 years ago.

  7. List of domesticated animals - Wikipedia

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    Domestication is a gradual process, so there is no precise moment in the history of a given species when it can be considered to have become fully domesticated. Zooarchaeology has identified three classes of animal domesticates: Pets (dogs, cats, ferrets, hamsters, etc.) Livestock (cattle, sheep, pigs, goats, etc.)

  8. Scientists have traced the origin of the modern horse to a ...

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    Around 4,200 years ago, one particular lineage of horse quickly became dominant across Eurasia, suggesting that’s when humans started to spread domesticated horses around the world, according to ...

  9. History of agriculture - Wikipedia

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    Domestic pigs had multiple centres of origin in Eurasia, including Europe, East Asia and Southwest Asia, [36] where wild boar were first domesticated about 10,500 years ago. [37] Sheep were domesticated in Mesopotamia between 11,000 BC and 9000 BC. [38] Cattle were domesticated from the wild aurochs in the areas of modern Turkey and India ...