Poultry are domesticated and commercialized types of birds that are used for production purposes
Domestication is the process by which wild organisms are brought under human control, improved through breeding and handling, and their products or services become more useful
Domestication is a sustainted multi-generational mutalistic relationship
Domestication is a sustainted multi-generational mutalistic relationship
Symbiosis is a close relationship between two species in which at least one species benefits
Mutualism is when both species benefit
Commensalism is when one species benefits and the other is not affected
Parasitism\ is when one species benefits at the expense of the other
There are a total of 474 domesticated animals (44 land animals)
There is a predicted 8.7 million species in the world
Gaspand Bauhin is a botanist that began the formal naming system
Carl Linnaeus is the person who mainly started the formal naming system
Heminomonymus is when the same noma is used for taxa in different jurisdictions
The pathways to domestication are commensal, prey, and directed
The commensal pathway is when the animals are adapted to a human niche (ex. dog, cat, chicken)
The prey pathway is when a prey animal is sought for food (cattle, sheep, goat, pigs)
The directed pathway is when animals are targeted for draft and non food resources (horses, donkey, camel)
Obstacles to domestication are diet not easily supplied, slow growth rate/long birth spacing, reluctance to breed in captivity, nasty disposition, tendency to panic, lack of dominance hieracharies
Key domestication traits are having an efficient diet, quick growth rates, ability ti breed in captivity, docile, tendency not to panic, social structures, diurnal
Florivore eats plant matter
Omnivore eats both plant matter and animal matter
Faunivore eat animal matter
Precocial species are when the young are relatively mature and mobile and require limited parental care
Altricial is when the young of a species are initially incapable of moving around on their own and require extensive parental care
Monogamy is when there is one male and one female in a breeding pair
Polygyny is when there is one male and multiple females for breeding
Polyandry is when there is one female and multiple males in a breeding system
Chickens come from the Red Jungle Fowl (Gallus Gallus), was domesticated in China with the commensal pathway
Chickens are used for a food source, entertainment, and religious/cerimonial purposes
Turkeys (Melagris gallopave) was domesticated in Mesoamerica through the prey pathway
Common quail (Coturnx coturnix) was domesticated in Egypt for meat and eggs
Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) was domesticated in japan as songbirds, eggs, and meat
Mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) was domesticated in China through the commensal and prey pathways
Muscovys (Cairina musenata) was domesticated in Mexico through the prey pathway
Mule ducks (muscovy male x pekin female) are sterile and used for meat and foie gras
Greylag geese (Anser anser) were domesticated in Egypt
Swan goose (Anser cygnoides) was domesticated in China
Geese were domesticated through the commensal pathway
Rock Dove pigeon (Clumbia livia) was domesticated for meat through the commensal pathway
Ostriches (Struthio camelus) was domesticated in South Africa