List of domesticated animals

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This article concerns domesticated animals, in these senses:

• Actual animals living under conditions of domestication
• Species, or larger formal or informal zoological categories, that include at least some domesticated individual animals

Subdivisions of domesticated animals

Domesticated animals in the above sense are the subjects of each of the following Wikipedia articles: The listing of some of the included animals is a strong abuse of the term domesticated. Just because an animal is bred, consumed, used for human purposes, or kept in captivity does not mean the species has been domesticated.

• Mammals
  • Ungulates
    • alpaca
    • camel
    • cattle
    • cow
    • donkey
    • elephant
    • goat
    • horse
    • llama
    • reindeer (domesticated caribou)
    • sheep
    • water buffalo
    • yak
  • Carnivores
    • cat
    • dog
  • Other Mammals
    • dolphin
    • ferret
    • guinea pig (bred for food)
    • hamster
    • human
    • mice (laboratory)
    • pig
    • rabbit
    • rat (laboratory)

• Fish
  • carp (including goldfish)
  • tilapia

• Birds
  • chicken
  • duck
  • goose
  • guinea fowl
  • pigeon
  • turkey

• Invertebrates
  • Insects
    • laboratory fruit fly
    • honeybee
    • infertile insects (for control of their wild fellows)
    • ladybug
    • silkworm
  • leech
  • nightcrawler (earthworm variety)
  • snails

See also

agriculture, domestication

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