Do they approach the market like they would for cattle or take the same approach as pet companies do? The answer is yes. When marketing in the equine space, the distinction is less about the formal definition than it is about the audience. Let your target market drive your tone and language. Your consumer will tell you fairly quickly if they view their horse predominately as a companion or a livestock asset, but only if you listen and ask questions.
Learning about your customer rather than telling them what they want goes a long way to ensuring success. And what you learn may vary by product category: grooming products may be thought of through the companion filter and feed may take a livestock viewpoint. Work with the consumer rather than at odds with them. Livestock or Family Pet? A domestic animal is genetically determined to be tolerant of humans.
An individual wild animal, or wild animal born in captivity, may be tamed—their behavior can be conditioned so they grow accustomed to living alongside humans—but they are not truly domesticated and remain genetically wild. Captive Asian elephants, for example, are often misinterpreted as domesticated, because they have been kept by humans for thousands of years.
However, the majority have historically been captured from the wild and tamed for use by humans. Although then can breed in captivity, like big cats and other wild animals, they are not selectively bred , largely because of their long reproductive cycle.
For this reason, there are no domesticated breeds of Asian elephants : They remain wild animals. Other animals that have modern wild counterparts, such as rabbits, face the opposite challenge: Domestic rabbits are genetically distinct from wild rabbits, but because the populations coexist, lack of understanding about their differences may lead to the assumption that domestic rabbits can survive in the wild.
Unlike other feral animals domestic animals that live in the wild , domestic rabbits lack predator instincts that may aid their survival without human care. Shelters report high numbers of domestic rabbits being abandoned outdoors.
All rights reserved. Animals that make good candidates for domestication typically share certain traits: They grow and mature quickly, making them efficient to farm.
They breed easily in captivity and can undergo multiple periods of fertility in a single year. They eat plant-based diets, which makes them inexpensive to feed. They live in herds or had ancestors that lived in herds, making them easy for humans to control. The domestication process Domestication happens through selective breeding. Share Tweet Email. Why it's so hard to treat pain in infants. This wild African cat has adapted to life in a big city. Animals Wild Cities This wild African cat has adapted to life in a big city Caracals have learned to hunt around the urban edges of Cape Town, though the predator faces many threats, such as getting hit by cars.
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