title: Effects of domestication on animal behaviour.
abstract: Centuries of domestication of animals by civilised man have had many measurable effects on the various species involved, but only in relatively recent history has scientific curiosity been directed to assessing their extent. The process of domestication is analysed and its known effects on animals reviewed through observations of and experiments with various species of domesticated animals conducted by researchers into animal psychology and biology. The known facts on the effects of domestication in animals are extrapolated in an attempt to determine to what extent modern man himself has been domesticated in the urban environment.
mesh_terms: D000220:Adaptation, Biological; D000374:Aggression; D000821:Animal Feed; D000818:Animals; D000829:Animals, Domestic; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D005075:Biological Evolution; D001947:Breeding; D002417:Cattle / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D005589:Foxes; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D007774:Lactation; D008297:Male; D008425:Maternal Behavior; D010332:Paternal Behavior; D010641:Phenotype; D011247:Pregnancy; D051381:Rats / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D012641:Selection, Genetic; D012726:Sexual Behavior, Animal; D012919:Social Behavior; D013731:Territoriality; D014422:Turkeys