Domestikation: Verarmung Der Merkwelt

ISBN-13: 9783528085049 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 1983 / 160 str.

Helmut Hemmer

Opis

A unified approach to the study of domestic animals is an important step in achieving a proper understanding of the nature of domestication. In this book, the author has successfully brought together data from many different fields. It emphasizes the importance of domestic animals to the development of human civilization and demonstrates how human control of domestication may result in the planned production of distinct kinds of domestic animals, bred specifically to improve food production, build up alternative methods of land use or provide new laboratory animals for use in scientific research. The text concentrates on the importance of changes in animal behavior to the process of domestication and describes how one of the characteristics of domesticated animals is a lack of the same kind of perception of their surrounding environment as is shown by wild animals. New results and ideas are presented and the book demonstrates how the practical application of a theoretical strategy for domestication resulted in the production of the first primitive, but truly domestic, fallow deer.

Spis treści

1 Wozu Haustiere?.- 2 Bunte Vielfalt.- 3 Ursprung der Haustiere.- 4 Verhaltenswandel.- 5 Streß.- 6 Informationsaufnahme und Informationsverarbeitung.- 7 Überträgerstoffe zur Informationsverarbeitung.- 8 Fellfärbung und Verhalten.- 9 Fellfärbungs-Auslese.- 10 Grenzen der Belastbarkeit.- 11 Zähmung und Verwilderung.- 12 Neudomestikationen.- 13 Domestikation und Evolution.- 14 Zusammenfassende Gesamtübersicht.- Ausgewählte Literatur.- Verzeichnis der in öffentlichen Zoos und Tiergärten aufgenommenen Fotos.- Farbteil nach.