Pigs as Pets: Early Human Relations with the Sulawesi Warty Pig (Sus celebensis)

Brumm, Adam

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“…Pigs probably especially important during the tree-fruiting season and are taken non-selectively as part of an integrated forest foraging strategy. Warty pigs feature prominently in the earliest rock art of Sulawesi.+[211–214]house mouse ( Mus musculus ), house sparrow ( Passer domesticus ), black rat ( Rattus rattus ), various corvid species (Corvidae)Natufian of the Levant, esp. Ain Mallaha (Epipalaeolithic/earliest Pre-Ceramic Neolithic of the Levant); ca 15 to 13 kyaLow-level food producing forager-cultivators with semi-sedentary village complexes and systems of food and grain storage attracting rodents and commensal/synanthropic birds.…”

Section: The Palaeo-synanthropic Niche As Human Ecosystem Servicementioning

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The human side of biodiversity: coevolution of the human niche, palaeo-synanthropy and ecosystem complexity in the deep human past

Hussain,

Baumann

2024

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Today's biodiversity crisis fundamentally threatens the habitability of the planet, thus ranking among the primary human challenges of our time. Much emphasis is currently placed on the loss of biodiversity in the Anthropocene, yet these debates often portray biodiversity as a purely natural phenomenon without much consideration of its human dimensions and frequently lack long-term vistas. This paper offers a deep-time perspective on the key role of the evolving human niche in ecosystem functioning and biodiversity dynamics. We summarize research on past hunter–gatherer ecosystem contributions and argue that human–environment feedback systems with important biodiversity consequences are probably a recurrent feature of the Late Pleistocene, perhaps with even deeper roots. We update current understandings of the human niche in this light and suggest that the formation of palaeo-synanthropic niches in other animals proffers a powerful model system to investigate recursive interactions of foragers and ecosystems. Archaeology holds important knowledge here and shows that ecosystem contributions vary greatly in relation to different human lifeways, some of which are lost today. We therefore recommend paying more attention to the intricate relationship between biodiversity and cultural diversity, contending that promotion of the former depends on fostering the latter. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Ecological novelty and planetary stewardship: biodiversity dynamics in a transforming biosphere’.

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The human side of biodiversity: coevolution of the human niche, palaeo-synanthropy and ecosystem complexity in the deep human past

Hussain,

Baumann

2024

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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“…The natural sociality of Pleistocene wolves and their standing variation in behavior, along with other characteristics such as adaptable lifestyle and tolerance for inbreeding, the behavioral and social parallels between wild wolves and humans — both living in families, and ecological overlap — may have predisposed this wild canid taxon, in particular, to enter into an early domestic relationship with our species following the human-initiated, pup-raising pathway ( Germonpré et al, 2018 , 2021a ; Kotrschal, 2018 ; Mech and Janssens, 2022 ; Range and Marshall-Pescini, 2022a , b ). On the other hand, we have limited knowledge of the nature (and closeness) of early human interactions with other potential companion species (e.g., wild pigs; see Brumm, 2023 ).…”

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The human-initiated model of wolf domestication – An expansion based on human-dingo relations in Aboriginal Australia

2023

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The historically known relationship of interspecies companionship between Aboriginal foraging communities in Australia and free-ranging dingoes provides a model for understanding the human-canid relations that gave rise to the first domesticated dogs. Here, we propose that a broadly similar relationship might have developed early in time between wild-living wolves and mobile groups of foragers in Late Pleistocene Eurasia, with hunter-gatherers routinely raiding wild wolf dens for pre-weaned pups, which were socialized to humans and kept in camp as tamed companions (“pets”). We outline a model in which captive wolf pups that reverted to the wild to breed when they were sexually mature established their territories in the vicinity of foraging communities — in a “liminal” ecological zone between humans and truly wild-living wolves. Many (or most) of the wolf pups humans took from the wilderness to rear in camp may have derived from these liminal dens where the breeding pairs had been under indirect human selection for tameness over many generations. This highlights the importance of the large seasonal hunting/aggregation camps associated with mammoth kill-sites in Gravettian/Epigravettian central Europe. Large numbers of foragers gathered regularly at these locations during the wild wolf birthing season. We infer that if a pattern of this kind occurred over long periods of time then there might have been a pronounced effect on genetic variation in free-ranging wolves that denned and whelped in the liminal zones in the vicinity of these human seasonal aggregation sites. The argument is not that wolves were domesticated in central Europe. Rather, it is this pattern of hunter-gatherers who caught and reared wild wolf pups gathering seasonally in large numbers that might have been the catalyst for the early changes leading to the first domesticated dogs — whether in western Eurasia or further afield.

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“…Based on pet statistics in Indonesia, dogs are the most popular pets (Anugrah et al, 2023;Brumm, 2022). The types of dogs consist of local dogs and purebred dogs kept in different rearing conditions (B. V. Sinaga & Hariani, 2019).…”

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Implementation Of Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Decision Making To Design An Expert System For Prediction Of Digestive Diseases At Dogs

Tisna Kusuma,

Kusnadi,

Adline Twince Tobing

2023

ceddi j. inf. syst. technol.

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A dog is a kind of animal that is often looked after at home. Except for being known as a human's friend, a dog is also able to be trained to do many things. The age of the dog depends on the type of race. If it's fed well, exercises, and visits the doctor regularly, a dog can live longer. Dogs are very sensitive to certain diseases; one of them is intestinal disease. An expert system of a dog's digestion is built for the dog's lover so that they know exactly what's disease, which relies on the appearance of the symptoms. The symptoms of the different intestinal diseases look almost similar. For this reason, we need an appropriate method to get a precise result. Fuzzy multiple-criteria decision-making can help make the right decision that has some consideration points. This method is also equipped with optimal ultimate selections, which leads to a very precise result. The goal of this application is to know the right kind of disease and its therapy. This study has been validated by matching the results of the application with the doctor's diagnosis. The compatibility level is 80%.

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Pigs as Pets: Early Human Relations with the Sulawesi Warty Pig (Sus celebensis)

Cited by 6 publications

References 142 publications

The human side of biodiversity: coevolution of the human niche, palaeo-synanthropy and ecosystem complexity in the deep human past

The human side of biodiversity: coevolution of the human niche, palaeo-synanthropy and ecosystem complexity in the deep human past

The human-initiated model of wolf domestication – An expansion based on human-dingo relations in Aboriginal Australia

Implementation Of Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Decision Making To Design An Expert System For Prediction Of Digestive Diseases At Dogs

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