A History of Agriculture in India v1.c14.s3.6

v1.c14.s3.6

Changes in climate and the advent of aridity are regarded as important factors favouring the domestication of wild animals. With the decline of food and water supplies, the wild animals herded hungrily round the scattered oases around which human settlements had already been established. The close contact of wild animals with man paved the way for their domestication.