Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north.
Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have been no valuable additions of domestic animals in recent times, despite the efforts of modern science.
I do not want to go into its physical reasons: the construction of the human body is different from that of carnivorous animals. But man's intelligence is such that it can be utilised to defend any-thing he does, whether right or wrong.
As long as man eats animals how can cruelty to animals be removed.
I like all these little animals that run and eat and hide all the time. I like their faces, They seem to be scared and curious at the same time.
You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches.
Never work with kids or animals.
Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me.
It wasn't a problem for me drawing humans although I had originally come to the studio with the idea that what I had to offer them was my knowledge in the drawing of animals.
I love animals and I love to see movies with animals that are done respectfully, you know?
Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
I always felt people should live with animals.
Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle.
The things that are really important to me are my man, my animals and my books. I don't need anything else.
But if you really want to learn about life, get a cat. The way I think people should relate to animals is with a cat. Because the world is his.