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Here's a blog that has a lesson on a new animal every day ... and today is the wolf.

About 10.000 years ago, when man started settling down and raising cattle, another development started: The domestication of the Wolf, which is recognized as the ancestor of all domestic dog breeds nowadays. Possibly it started that way: Some Wolves have been less timid than others and instead of searching for nearness to the herds they entered the human settlements to search for food among the scraps of meat, a behaviour that is still shown by Wolves in certain areas nowadays. These Wolves became more and more used to humans and humans learned to profit from the social behaviour of Wolves, which is crucial to the close relationship between dog and man. Thus the Wolf became the oldest domestic animal following Sheep and Goat.

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