Domesticated Animals

List all the domesticated animals given their wild ancestor, their origin, and the date domesticated. Largely based on the wikipedia list of domesticated animals
Domesticated animals which are now extinct are marked with an asterisk
Some species were domesticated multiple times, and are as a result given multiple locations
Where the common name of the wild animal is identical to the domesticated animal, a dash is given
Does not include animals like elephants which are usually not bred in captivity, or animals which are bred in captivity with few engrained changes in behavior or physical appearance, eg swans or various parrot species
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Wild Ancestor
Location
Date
Answer
Gray Wolf
Unknown
13,000 BCE
Dog
Mouflon
Anatolia/Iran
11,000 BCE
Sheep
Wild Boar
East Asia/West Asia
9,000 BCE
Pig
Eurasian Aurochs
East Asia/West Asia
8,500 BCE
Taurine Cow
Wild -
Near East
8,000 BCE
House Cat
Bezoar Ibex
Iran
8,000 BCE
Goat
Indian Aurochs
Indian Subcontinent
8,000 BCE
Zebu/ Indicine Cow
Red Junglefowl
India/SE Asia
6,000 BCE
Chicken
Montane - -
Peru
5,000 BCE
Guinea Pig
African Wild Ass
Nubia
5,000 BCE
Donkey
Guar
India/SE Asia
5,000 BCE
Gayal/Mithun
Common Mallard
China
5,000 BCE
Duck
Wild - -
India/China/Philippines
4,000 BCE
Water Buffalo
--
Arabia/ East Africa
4,000 BCE
Dromedary Camel
European - -
Europe
4,000 BCE
Honeybee
Tarpan or -
Eurasian Steppe
4,000 BCE
Horse
Banteng
Bali
3,500 BCE
Bali Cattle
Wild -
China
3,000 BCE
Silkmoth
Rock Dove
Mediterranean
3,000 BCE
Pigeon
Greylag - and Swan -
Egypt/China
3,000 BCE
Goose
Wild -
Tibet
2,500 BCE
Yak
Extinct sister species to the Wild - -
Central Asia
2,500 BCE
Bactrian Camel
Guanaco
Andes
2,400 BCE
Llama (and Chilihueque*?)
Vicuna
Andes
2,400 BCE
Alpaca
West African Helmeted -
West Africa
2,400 BCE
Guineafowl
Polecat
North Africa/Iberia
1,500 BCE
Ferret
House -
China
1,100 BCE
Fancy Mouse/Laboratory Mouse
Wild - -
South America
700 BCE
Muscovy Duck
African Collard -
North Africa
500 BCE
Barbary Dove
Either Duiscyon avis or Culepo Fox
Patagonia
Unknown
Fuegian Dog*
Wild - -
India
Unknown
Eri Silkmoth
Wild -
Mexico
180 CE
Turkey
Prussian Carp
China
300 CE
Goldfish
European -
Europe
600 CE
Rabbit
Amur Carp
Japan
1100 CE
Koi
Wild -
Japan
1100 CE
Japanese Quail
Wild -
Canary Islands
1400 CE
Canary
White Rumped Munia
Japan
1700 CE
Society Finch
Brown -
United Kingdom
1800 CE
Fancy Rat/ Laboratory Rat
Wild -
Upstate New York
~1860 CE
Mink
Red -
Russia
~1960 CE
Fox
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Level 68
May 10, 2025
Regarding the Chilihueque, it is either an extinct breed of llama, or a seperate landrace of guanacos domesticated independently from llamas and classified as its own species. The population is extinct and they are fairly obscure, so I figured it would be best to put them in with llamas.

Fuegoan dogs are the other extinct domesticated animals here. They were probably domesticated culepo foxes, but there is a minority viewpoint that they were instead domesticated variants of Duiscyon avis, a large, recently extinct species of fox that died out not long before the fuegoan dogs did.

The other weird one here is the Domesticated bactrian camel. From DNA evidence, the ancestor of wild bactrian camels and domesticated bactrian camels split 2 million years ago. That means that wild bactrian camels are not the wild ancestor of domesticated bactrian camels, and there is a third species here which was basically identical to wild bactrian camels, except for genetics, and was domesticated.