Subject: Horses First Domesticated 5,0000 Years Ago From: "Jay R. Feierman" Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:04:39 -0700 To: human-ethology@yahoogroups.com CC: applied-ethology@usask.ca Horses first domesticated 5,000 years ago http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090306/ap_on_sc/sci_first_horses_8 Medieval knights, the warriors of Saladin, Roy Rogers and fans lining racetracks around the world all owe a debt to the Botai culture, residents of Central Asia who domesticated horses more than 5,000 years ago. New evidence corralled in Kazakhstan indicates the Botai culture used horses as beasts of burden - and as a source of meat and milk - about 1,000 years earlier than had been widely believed, according to the team led by Alan Outram of England's University of Exeter. Subject: dog-human From: Peter Kabai Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:29:17 +0100 To: applied-ethology network Dear Colleagues, a student of mine, Csilla Danka is analysing resemblance between human and dog having lived together for some years. As a first step she would like to know whether independent referees were able to match dogs to humans. You could contribute to her study by playing with this at http://testomatic.magenet.hu/ usernam: bodree password: bodree321 Best wishes, Kabai Péter -- Peter Kabai, PhD Associate Professor Dept Ecology, Szent Istvan University http://www.behav.org -- Peter Kabai, PhD Associate Professor Dept Ecology, Szent Istvan University http://www.behav.org