Animal Domestication: Basic Guide

by Girish Bali, Aishwarya Malik, Amitava Kaur

ISBN: 9789371709651
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Imprint : Agri Horti Press
Year : 2026
Price : Rs. 7490.00
Biblio : viii+164p., figs., tbls., 25cm

About The Book

This book provides existing knowledge of the process of domestication and how it has affected the behaviour of captive wild and domesticated animals. Each chapter examines a particular type of domestication, and includes accounts of exemplary species that examines their biology, their domestication history, and the results of domestication. Domestication is highly illustrated and examines a wide variety of domesticated animals Animal Domestication Basic Guide will interest a wide range of readers from evolutionary biologists, developmental biologists, and geneticists to anthropologists and archaeologists.

Table of Contents

Preface v 1. Animal Domestication: A Brief Overview 1 2. A Genomics Perspective on Pig Domestication 21 3. Insects: The Disregarded Domestication Histories 35 4. Fish Domestication: An Overview 69 5. Effects of Domestication on Fish Behaviour 91 6. Domestication and Welfare in Farmed Fish 109 7. Domestication of the Eurasian Perch (Perca fluviatilis) 137 Index 161