Animals

Origins and history of the dog

 

The scientists agree that the domestic dog appeared of the wolf and that is a variety or sub-race of this, have seen the scientific name of the wolf Kennels lupus and the dog familiaris Kennels lupus. The origins of the sprouting of the domestic dog if base on assumptions, for if behind dealing with occurrences of thousand of years. One of the theories is of that the domestic dogs had appeared behind have 10,000 years for artificial election of younglings of cinereous wolves and coyotes that lived in return of the prehistoric human encampments, if feeding of remaining portions of foods or left carcasses as residues for the hunter-collectors. The human beings had perceived that it had certain wolves that they were come close more to the one than the others and had recognized certain utility in this, therefore they gave alarm of the presence of other wild beasts, as other wolves or great felinos. Eventually, some younglings had been captured and led for these human encampments, in the attempt to be bred or domesticated. With passing of the time, the animals that, when reaching the adult phase, if they showed fierce, not accepting the presence human being, were discarded or hindered of if acasalar. In this way, to the long one of the time, it had an election of docile, tolerant and obedient animals to the human being, the which allowed age the acasalamento and that, when adult, they were of great utility, assisting in the hunting and the guard of the encampment. This led eventually to the creation of the domestic dogs. In this way, one claims that many of the characteristics of the dogs, as loyalty to the owner, territorial instinct and of hunting, had been inherited of the wolf. One also claims that the importance of the dog it human being either very bigger of the one than we imagine. Or either, with the same assisting the hunting and watching encampments, the human being had chance to develop says attributes among others to it and to surpass the robust man of neandertal The dogs appear in prehistoric paintings of caves, in hunted representations of. Through archaeology, innumerable objects with dogs had been found as decorative reasons, such as grooving handles of knife with the drawing of a dog using coleira. In the Egyptian Mythology of Old Egypt, the dogs also were mumificados for representation of Deuses. Neith, wife of Rá, are the goddess of the hunting that opens the ways, that the dog has for sacred animal. The differences between the races of dogs already were apparent in the Seniority. In the Roman Empire, the canine groups already you had its similar basic characteristics of today. Molossos, spitzs, shepherds, among others already were selected by its aptitudes and structure. Plates in the houses of Pompéia had been found, with the registration dig canem (well-taken care of with the dog), obviando that the dogs already were used by that people as guardiões, denoting its variety of functions. Since the average age the image of the dog also found place of prominence in the blazons of great families and in the heraldry.