Show asia first home of moat most of domesticated animals man has domesticated animals since his earliest days before he learned to write for among his ear liest records are found drawings and other representations of some of the animals he had taken into his camps and dwelling places the continent of asia seems to have been the place of origin of three fourths of our domestic am ani mals since the first home of man himself is usually also placed there this is not surprising it seems probable that all of these animals were first held captive by the early peoples for their food sup ply and that the other uses for them for drawing loads for riding for giving protection etc occurred to their captors afterward it is interesting to note that no new domestic animals have been de in several thousand years as far as records show asserts a writer in the cleveland plain deal er the llama the alpaca and the turkey have become known to euro peoples within that time but they had long been in use among the inhabitants of the new world cats camels most domestic cat tie ile horses goats sheep and most poultry are apparently asiatic in origin dogs are perhaps asiatic in origin too although this is less tain the ass may have come from northern africa the reindeer from froin northern europe |