Animal husbandry with more settled communities. The first wild animal to be domesticated was the dog. Half-wild dogs, perhaps starting with young individuals, may have been tolerated as scavengers and killers of vermin, and being naturally pack hunters, were predisposed to become part of the human pack and join in the hunt. Prey animals, sheep, goats, pigs and cattle, were progressively domesticated early in the history of agriculture. Pigs were domesticated in Mesopotamia around 13,000 BC, and sheep followed, some time between 11,000 and 9,000 BC. Cattle were domesticated from the wild aurochs in the areas of modern Turkey and Pakistan around
Tame animal domesticated. Asian elephants are wild animals that with taming manifest outward signs of domestication, yet their breeding is not human controlled and thus they are not true domesticates. Tame animal A tame animal is an animal that is relatively tolerant of human presence. Tameness may arise either naturally (as in the case, for example, of island tameness) or due to human intervention (as the result of animal training). Taming is the deliberate, human-directed process of training an animal against its initially wild or natural instincts to avoid or attack humans, so that it instead learns to become tolerant of humans.