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About 9000 years ago there was a remarkable transformation between the interaction between humans and animals. We begin to see animal domestication. Instead of having to go out to hunt they can get meat in their village. They can use their hair and skins to make clothes and can use the animals to make shelter. The animals and the crops made a good combination because the people could use the animal's droppings for fertilizers. They could also keep breeding them so they would have an everlasting supply of meat. Goats and sheep are the first animals that were domesticated. They could also get milk from the goats. Then came pigs and cows. The invention of the plow they could use strong animals to plow the fields and they could use animals to do help do everyday chores for the necessities of humans. A horse or ox could help farmers grow more food and feed more people. People in New Guinea never used plows because they never had the animals that could move plows to help make farms. However they had deer which was used for meet and pigs were flown in which are also used for meat. Almost all of the farm work in New Guinea are done by man. Domesticated animals were some birds and fish but the best to farm are plant eating animals and humans tried to domesticate practically all of them. In south Asia some elephants are used as work animals for example and doesn't make sense to farm an animal that has to wait 15 years before it can start breeding. Domestic animals have to get along with humans to. A zebra could be ideal but because of Africa's predators they run and they have a fighting personality that humans could not tame. Their are 14 animals that can be domesticated are goats, sheep, pigs, cows, horses, donkeys, camels, water buffalo, llamas, reindeer, yaks, myth ans, and tali.