--- title: Horses, cattle, camels and chickens: how people tamed animals — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Horses, cattle, camels and chickens: how people tamed animals», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: When you ride a pony you are sitting on thousands of years of history. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / Horses, cattle, camels and chickens: h… # Horses, cattle, camels and chickens: how people tamed animals Lesson 293 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 19 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals/0/) — When you ride a pony you are sitting on thousands of years of history. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals/1/) — Wild horses once ran free on the grasslands of what are now Ukraine, Russia and Kazakhstan, and people there learned to keep and ride them. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals/2/) — Taming is not the same as training. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals/3/) — Training teaches one animal tricks in its lifetime; taming, or domestication, means people choose the calmest animals to have babies, generation after generation, until the whole kind changes. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals/4/) — After the dog came sheep and goats, then cattle and pigs, about 10,000 years ago; later horses, camels, llamas and chickens. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals/5/) — They gave milk, wool, meat, eggs and muscle power, and let people settle in villages. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals/6/) — Not every animal can be tamed. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals/7/) — Zebras kick, bite and panic, and a working elephant in Asia, however gentle, was usually caught wild and trained, not tamed. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals/8/) — Horses were first tamed about 5,000 to 6,000 years ago on the grasslands of what are now Ukraine, Russia and Kazakhstan. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals/10/) — Przewalski's horse is a stocky wild horse from Mongolia that died out in the wild by the 1960s; zoo horses were released, and wild herds now live in Mongolia and even in the Chornobyl zone in Ukraine. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals/11/) — All cattle come from the aurochs, a huge wild ox with long horns drawn in cave paintings; it was tamed about 10,000 years ago, and the last one died in a Polish forest in 1627. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals/12/) — Dogs were tamed first, then sheep and goats, then cattle and pigs about 10,000 years ago, and later horses, camels and others. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals/13/) — Zebras are nervous, kick and bite and are hard to catch, because they lived for a very long time alongside lions and human hunters; only a few people ever drove zebra carriages. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals/14/) — Camels were tamed about 3,000 years ago and made desert trade possible; the hump stores fat, not water, and a thirsty camel can drink about 100 litres in about ten minutes. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals/15/) — Chickens come from the red junglefowl, a wild bird of Asian jungles; they may first have been kept for show and fighting, later for eggs and meat, and there are now more chickens than any other bird on Earth. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals/16/) — Silk comes from the cocoons of a moth caterpillar tamed in China about 5,000 years ago; the tame moths can no longer fly, and silk cloth was so precious and sold for so much along trade routes that China kept its secret for centuries. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals/18/) — Horses carried soldiers for thousands of years, millions died in the First World War, and a memorial in London remembers animals in war, including dogs and pigeons that carried messages. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals/19/) — Elephants have worked with people for thousands of years but were never truly tamed; most were caught wild, as they breed slowly in captivity. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals/20/) — Taming means changing a whole kind of animal over many generations, not training one animal. - ← previous: [Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with dogs today](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/292-dogs-from-wolves-to-best-friends-living-with-dogs-today/) - next →: [Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)