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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
1 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
- CarnivoreCarnivores are animals that eat a diet consisting mostly of meat. Also, the word could refer to the mammals of the Order Carnivora, many (but not all) of which fit the first definition. Here is a list below that includes animals that are unable to chew ans
- catFor alternative meanings see cat (disambiguation). The cat (also called domestic cat or house cat is a small feline carnivorous mammal. Its scientific name is Felis silvestris catus or Felis silvestris domesticus but the species is sometimes referred to a
- dogThis article discusses the domestic dog. For other members of the dog family, see Canidae. The dog is a canine omnivorous mammal that has been domesticated for somewhere between 14,000 and 150,000 years. In those millennia, the dog has developed into hund
- Other Mammals
- dolphinThis article is about the dolphin mammal. For other uses of the term, please see dolphin (disambiguation). See article below. Dolphins are certain aquatic mammals related to whales and porpoises. The word is used in a few different ways. It can mean: #any
- ferretIn general use, a ferret is a Domestic Ferret Mustela putorius furo , a creature first bred from the wild European Polecat at least 2,500 years ago. Several other small, elongated carnivorous mammals belonging to the family Mustelidae also have the word "
- guinea pigCavia porcellus Cavia aperea Cavia tschudii Cavia guianae Cavia anolaimae Cavia nana Cavia fulgida Cavia magna Guinea pigs (also called cavies are rodents belonging to the family Cavidae and the genus Cavia''. Currently there is a scientific dispute as to (bred for food)
- hamster
- human
- mice (laboratory)
- pig
- rabbit
- rat (laboratory)
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