The Geography of Livestock

Just like our fruits and spices, the many animals we eat have a rich and varied history spanning nearly all the worlds continents. Today we're exploring the stories behind domesticated livestock!
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[@psammiad]

Honey might not seem worth it to our modern sugar-rich diet, but imagine what it was like for ancient people who lived on plain fruit, grains and meat - golden honey would've been a miraculous taste sensation.

[@justinokraski3796]

there's a reason Israel was often referred to as "The Land of Milk and Honey"

[@0799qwertzuiop]

I thik they had dates in ancient Egypt, those would have been quite sweet and comparable to honey.

[@shashwatsinha2704]

Not in India, we've always had sugar.

[@shashwatsinha2704]

And some Chinese came to India to learn how to produce it... They went back home and... They mass-produced it and exported it so much that now sugar is called "चीनी"(cheenee) in Hindi which means Chinese.

[@shashwatsinha2704]

And this is not a joke.

[@PedroMata]

It's funny that in English, you have turkey which is the same name as a country, Turkey. While in Portuguese, a turkey is called a "peru" which is the same name as a country, Peru.

[@toontoosh]

In Hebrew they're India chickens!

[@heatherriley2170]

In Japan it's called american chicken

[@Elias-dx9og]

In French, it’s called « dinde » or « dindon » which is close to « d’Inde » meaning « from India »

[@Potatoman1578]

In Finnish its called your mom is gay

[@PaulitoSilas]

In Argentina we call it "Pavo" which translates to something like "Dumb"

[@Wolfiyeethegranddukecerberus17]

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Me: *adjusts spectacles* _Actually it was the red junglefowl originating from the tropical regions of India and South Eastern Asia_

[@DaMasta981]

Actually it was other lines of other fowl throughout the years, which evolved from other avian-like birds or dineosaurs which split form reptiles millions of years ago. So the egg was always first.

[@GregoryJByrne]

CO2/Carbon plus H2O/Water captures the EM energy of the Sun/Son-Galaxy/father and creates life. Earth is a closed loop that self regulates CO2 with life by combing CO2with H2O to capture the EM of the double toroidal fields we call the Sun and or galactic nucleus. Cause and effect. Temperature rises first and CO2 follows as the Arctic thaws due to crossing the galactic plane and increased DIRECT sunlight at the higher latitudes poles. The Arctic is nothing but frozen CO2. Precession causes our climate cycles of Continental glaciers with lower sea levels brought on by East to West Global Tsunami's when we cross the galaxies Electromagnetic/Gravitational plane/Equator for the next Millenia. The Galactic Milankovitch cycles cause our climate cycles. Eccentricity galactic bulge rotates every 240,000 years. Obliquity/Magnetic north changes according to the galactic bulge with Aphelion occurring once every 120,000 years or 24.5 degrees magnetic north inclination putting us in the tropical age. When magnetic north will be at 21.5 degrees inclination we will be in the ice age. Covid1984 like CO2 is a comfortable lie built upon the inconvenient truth that the Baby Boomers who were born en mass 75 years ago are starting to die en mass from the usual suspects of seasonal Flu/Pneumonia and old age. The MASK of he Beast is a pretext for the FINAL SOLUTION vaccine. Jesus loved all races because there is only one race, The HUMAN RACE with only one minority the INDIVIDUAL HUMAN.

[@Uriel4-9-476]

@@GregoryJByrne Stop doing drugs, my friend.

[@fufucuddlypoops20]

And to be fair fish reptiles insects and non avian dinosaurs all layed eggs long before chickens

[@dadsmidnightcreation6794]

@@Uriel4-9-476 chicken

[@hokipokiloki8985]

I want to know the geography of our grains and vegetables. that would be interesting to know.

[@drpk6514]

He has one with fruits and some crops but it is inaccurate and some misinfo in them.

[@montecorbit8280]

Agreed!!

[@somatia350]

Meg Sabo sad thing is guns germs and steel is considered a joke by many historians

[@diocanaja]

the one about veggies is just out

[@cyan3714]

One word Mesopotamia

[@kelly2fly]

“African wild ass”. Imagine this phrase without context. 🤣😂🤣😂

[@DrumRoody]

Type it into pornhub

[@dragenmaster5385]

@@DrumRoody i did it and its fucking amazing

[@DankDave211]

I was like wait what. Lol

[@theusa4052]

DrumRoody did you use incognito

[@dehzo6854]

@@theusa4052 of course

[@ElementZephyr]

"Grains, Vegetables, or maybe even pets" 1, 2, and 3.

[@daniellanctot6548]

My thought exactly!

[@fmba5457]

and Alcohol!

[@nathanlamberth7631]

ElementZephyr D all the above

[@connorcore7008]

all the videos. all of them

[@KrazyKaiser]

Agreed.

[@gillmacgillechiaran5651]

“Piggle” has entered my vocabulary.

[@penguinpie5056]

love those piggles

[@fhhfhdfdhhdhhdfhdf138]

african wild ass i also have a black-eye now

[@And-lj5gb]

3:35 - "With 19 billion total chickens alive today on Earth, grown solely for their meat" Eggs: "Am I a joke to you?"

[@cool728]

You forgot water buffaloes. Very important domestic animal of South and Southeast Asia.

[@rogerlow9107]

Reminds me of my village

[@bobbiusshadow6985]

.. and oxen

[@mikewhiskey5455]

Ducks and geese.

[@LOLWAAHH]

Ah yes, the buff aloe

[@alvexok5523]

@@mikewhiskey5455, yes, they left out ducks and geese also. And deer, and moose, and rabbits. Each one of these animals have not only been hunted in the wild, but raised for meat domestically too

[@Remls]

3:04 What do you mean, that's totally a historically accurate representation of cockfighting

[@bluemountain4181]

3:04 "Are you not entertained?!"

[@Nafuttoid]

@Krishna Dick im sorry to burst your bubble, but im the 334 liker...

[@cheesepuffs5226]

Nafutto I’m 497

[@rgerber]

Gladiator Maximus vs King Leonidas. Who wins?

[@joshygoldiem_j2799]

The domestication of horses is very important to civil history. If you know anything about linguistics, then the Yamnaya people expanded from the Pontic steppe on these horses that they began domesticating. After a Yamnaya-descended group of Anatolians became the Hittites, the near Eastern empires around them adopted their horse and chariot practices. Today, many languages we speak today, including English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Greek, Russian, Persian, Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali and Marathi all derive from the Yamnaya language spoken 6000 years ago.

[@LuKing2]

Are you refering to the Indo-Europeans? I've never heard the term "Yamnaya" used to refer to them before

[@joshygoldiem_j2799]

@@LuKing2 it refers to the prehistoric culture where PIE is believed to have been spoken

[@farinator3409]

Animal: exists Turkey: *it's free real estate*

[@biggusdickus1246]

Lol

[@Ratchet4647]

You missed a couple: reindeer/Caribou by the Sami, Guinea pigs by the Andeans (for its meat) Other fowl (Ducks, Geese, Swans, Peacocks, Quail, etc.) Meat Rabbits. I probably missed a couple too! Interesting historical domesticate: Snails! While I don't think modern Escargot Snails are considered domesticated, there is archeological evidence of massive Snails that gained that size by being bred and cultivated as food by Greeks in ancient times.

[@ravkoleavikk8577]

I am proud that you mention my people :D

[@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901]

@sciphynuts wtf the eastern roman empire spoke greek and was called the Greek Kingdom after the Germans claimed to be the roman empire. Greek was also spoken from Egypt to india and around Uzbekistan until the rise of islam. There are fairly ancient Greek monasteries in the mountains that have always been independent even. Most people along the Turkish coasts and in the Turkish capital of konstantiniyye (Istanbul constantinople) plus [edit: with] a large minority (like 30%) in Asia minor spoke greek until WW2. Greek was also used as a liturgical language in orthodox areas and as the language of medicine and scirnce in catholic Europe sometimes. I honestly don't understand where you get this idea.

[@thejack9178]

Reindeer caribou and swans is not domesticated they are just captured to live in captivity

[@MerkhVision]

Alt-Centrist NeoBuddhist-AnarchoBonapartist I dont think he was referring to the language at all. Seems to me that he meant the original ethnicity and or a singular national greek identity

[@meteorite1157]

Alt-Centrist NeoBuddhist-AnarchoBonapartist yup In case youre wondering or u already know by what i read, the greeks in turkey were called the rums and the use of that language decreased about WW2 because around that time, because of some political bs the turkish ppl who lived in greece were force migrated to turkey and the rums were force migrated to greece

[@sisyphusvasilias3943]

"You're being a Jenny" Is my new fav slur.

[@mariaivana330]

My ears hearing East + My eyes reading West = My brain thinking Weast 😂

[@eddyrapino9071]

Wumbo

[@T0mtoma]

loll

[@kaithleen3872]

“And definitely didn’t do anything bad in any of these places” omg this killed me

[@khayelihledlamini8209]

Like really now!

[@davidlover6881]

Seriously, I thought it was sarcasm.

[@MajorMlgNoob]

@@davidlover6881 it is lol

[@Hollywooood]

Me too, because Europeans are the only ones who did “anything bad”. Almost every country/culture has a history of barbarism, and some of them still engage in it. I wonder why only Europe got an honorable mention...

[@emeryrossi8369]

@@Hollywooood global colonization had a vastly different scale and ongoing impact

[@Barkend3]

In portuguese the bird turkey is called "peru", which is also the name of a country. The name comes from the fact that the Portuguese believed that the bird was original from the region of Peru, in South America. So the Portuguese people also missed the target, but not as much as the English.

[@alexwang982]

Turkey. Is this from turkey?

[@-41337]

In Turkey, the bird is called "Hindi" which means Indian.

[@BlazingMagpie]

I guess for many languages the name of the bird is basically "first guess where this thing came from is what we'll call it"

[@elfarlaur]

In French it's called une dinde which is from oiseau d'Inde (Indian bird). I imagine the association was meant to refer to the West Indies (I.e. the Caribbean) and it may be something similar for the Turks themselves. It may also have gotten that name before people realised that the Americas were not islands in the Indian Ocean.

[@caranthirn7400]

We turks thought the bird came from India and thats why we call the bird hindi in our languange :) it seems this bird has country names all over the world.

[@ab-oe7el]

5:51 "eurasian boar" - shows African warthog

[@tankinator451]

If aliens landed in Turkey, the Turks would try to domesticate them 😂

[@biggusdickus1246]

Yeah lmao

[@sasukefukuda4148]

And maybe even breed with them. 😂✌.

[@cembarhana750]

​@@sasukefukuda4148 We've done both, thank you very much.

[@sasukefukuda4148]

@@cembarhana750 😂

[@cembarhana750]

@@sasukefukuda4148 kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5C5aWWogq6igqM This is a small scene from a turkish sci-fi movie called gora, titled why do you hate humans so much?

[@mackycabangon8945]

9:34 "from Bactria, in modern day afghanistan and pakistan* The area you highlighted is north of that, around uzbekistan, kyrgyzstan and tajikistan

[@DeyaViews]

What about geese, ducks and buffalo? Or rabbits? And are there any other insects we've cultivated for a long time?

[@hailgiratinathetruegod7564]

The only donestecated insect are the european honey bee and the silkworm. So no. There are no real other domestecated insects to bee honest

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

Domestication is a very specific term. It implies we’ve been genetically modifying them through eugenics and social engineering for a number of generations.

[@Nathan-pk1tb]

They were probably all domesticated in Turkey

[@MisterTalkingMachine]

The Lac bug which is used for it's production of shellac.

[@jeffersonfdavis]

also guinea pigs. they are meant to be eaten.

[@yestintebeck936]

I think you really missed out on eggs in the chicken part

[@apextroll]

It would have been first.

[@yestintebeck936]

@@CenturionMan15 Ja, warum?

[@BlackDragonWitheHawk]

@ffxme would not be surprising, as the USA is mostly not to accurate 🤔

[@patrikkurtis2640]

I now cant stop reading your comments in a german accent

[@Sriharshabhogi]

Hi Hans Bassich & Yestin Tebeck, I do not know any German except for a few words. Here is how I understood your conversation. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Hans: Are you German? Yestin: @Hans Bassich Ya, Why?

[@Yarblocosifilitico]

A lot of beekeepers nowadays only use the head piece so it's not that crazy that honey was collected that long ago. Also, smoke is something bees avoid so they probably used that and some cloth covering most of the face. We often give our ancients too little credit; they were very resourceful.

[@ohlangeni]

Cattle were actually domesticated in two places independently:- 1. In the Sahara in north-east Africa. 2. In the Indus Valley in Pakistan. Problem with the politics of domestication is massive European dominance in research and production of knowledge in the modern world. As a result, African domesticate are often credited to the Middle East. Where it is difficult to do so, they then give it to the Egyptians to mean the Nile Valley and Sahara peoples

[@fintan9705]

So what you're saying is that the aurochs was never domesticated, because their natural range did not extend into Africa, Funny then how the closest living relative, genetically, to the Eurasian Auroch is a breed of cattle from Switzerland.

[@ohlangeni]

@@fintan9705 ha ha ha Aurochs were in Africa, the Sahara and East Africa in ancient times including Barbary Bears and wolves. The only actual archeological sites with evidence of domestication of Aurochs into cattle are in Africa (e.g. Nabta Playa) and in Pakistan (Indus Valley domestication of Bos Indicus/Sanga cattle). There are no archeological sites in Europe. However, presently the economically, politically and scientifically dominant people in the world are Europeans. We have seen how the archeogenetic centres in Germany have interpreted and attributed every ancient genetic study to Europe's favour namely:- 1. The ancient population of Egypt 2. The pig / wild boar as 'domesticated in Europe/Anatolia 3. The dog as domesticated in Europe / claimed to be genetically related to European wolves 4. Cattle as European domestica despite the absence of any evidence except the claimed genetic relation of cattle of European Aurochs (previously Europeans claimed cattle were domesticated in the Near East)

[@ohlangeni]

@Shivam Joshi I do not believe there was any domestication in Anatolia. There is something called 'The Great Anatolia Theft' - basically Europeans using their monopoly on archeo-genetics to attribute ancient civilisations and human achievements of Africa and West Asia to 'Anatolian Farmers' i.e. alleged ancestors of modern Europeans. See Iron discovery. The real oldest sites are in Iran and Central Africa. Yet, it is the so-called Anatolian farmers we are told ushered the Iron Age. If you notice, all of the Middle East / Fertile Crescents' discoveries that gained it the label 'cradle of civilization' have all now been bequethed to Anatolia. The pig, wheat, iron even the very concept of farming has suddenly become an ancient European / Anatolia achievement.

[@fintan9705]

As shivam joshi says, it is entirely possible that there were three or possibly even more successful domestication attempts with the aurochs.

[@petercarioscia9189]

I'd love to see an entire video on chickens, seeing as you left out some super interesting facts. Especially how they evolved their curious egg laying cycle based on the lack of or abundance of food.

[@user-gu9yq5sj7c]

Watch Ted-ed on chickens.

[@stenbak88]

Do a whole video on chickens

[@sopmodo8122]

Lol, a whole video about ur mom

[@canadiansyrup50]

@@sopmodo8122 Am I supposed to laugh?

[@sopmodo8122]

@@canadiansyrup50 No

[@sopmodo8122]

@AAAnt M I am gonna destroy this man's whole career

[@duckyboi2297]

Yes A Video About Chickens, Bok Bok..

[@chironOwlglass]

"Let's get the big one out of the way: Chickens." My guy, that's the little one. The cow is the big one.

[@potosflavus2351]

Imagine Future historians thousands of years from now finding a bunch of chickens bones in the trash and displaying them as priceless evidence of ancient civilization. Amazing how much time can increase the value of something

[@penguinpie5056]

[finds remnants of an ancient KFC] future archaelogist: we believe this structure was a site of ritual chicken sacrifice used in the early 21st century. We believe KFC stands for Kock Fighting Club.

[@jeanpol1836]

Here in the Dominican Republic, we have both Indicine Cows (Zebu) and Taurine Cows

[@presidenttogekiss635]

No Brazil temos mais Zebus, por causa do calor.

[@jeanpol1836]

@@presidenttogekiss635 Legal! Aqui temos os dois, Zebu para carne e taurina para leite :)

[@rodrigonewow]

@@jeanpol1836 Did he just randomly respond in portuguese and you happened to know portuguese?

[@jeanpol1836]

@@rodrigonewow Lol i study Portuguese, i have been for a few months now, it's really easy for Spanish speakers

[@kindlin]

@@jeanpol1836 Someone in my Spanish class in highschool was from Portugal, so he had a pretty easy time for most of the class (tests still got him tho, lol...).

[@shmuelparzal]

The singular of aurochs is .... aurochs. It comes from MIddle High German aur-: primitive + ochs: ox. Strictly speaking, the older plural form would have been aurochsen.

[@georgf9279]

The plural is still Auerochsen in German. (just with the additional e) Syllables are: Au·er·och·se, Plural: Au·er·och·sen

[@chito2294]

fair point my brethren

[@MrDanChandler]

That sounds suspiciously like "Oxen."

[@rogerdiogo6893]

In english is Auroch, its *written* in the bible that way, we know we are living in the 4th reich, when we have German grammar Nazis, giving english lessons to english speaking countries, LOL!

[@liam-man7265]

Nobody: Not a speck of dust: Atlas Pro: *No one’s perfect (**2:30**).*

[@fasx56]

I enjoyed watching this very informative video and appreciate the time and research it took to put it all together. Most of us think of these animals in very superficial ways and think that they have always been available to us for food , clothing and to supply our Grocery Stores, how spoiled we are.

[@desertblade1874]

Lydia is the ancient name for modern day Turkey, it was the first country to use gold and silver as coins of equal weight and size for their currency way before Athens.

[@varana]

Ancient Lydia is only a small part of modern-day Turkey, though - the area around Izmir and further inland up to Usak, more or less.

[@_robustus_]

varana312 You beat me to it 👍

[@desertblade1874]

@@fanta6285 The Kingdom of Lydia existed from about 1200 BC to 546 BC. At its greatest extent, during the 7th century BC, it covered all of western Anatolia. (source: Wikipedia) As you can read Lydia was the name of the Empire that rose in the Iron age in what it would be re-named Anatolia, now it's known as Turkey

[@emilandreasson9670]

Lydia from Skyrim

[@_robustus_]

Anatolia is derived for the ancient greek name. I have never come across what the natives called it before the greeks showed up.

[@curtiswilson859]

Do a video about which deadly infectious diseases came from which animals!

[@daddyleon]

He already sounds a lot like CGPGrey, you want him to make a full Ameripox series too?? I"M GAME!

[@skiingbronconut7876]

That has nothing to do with geography.... how about WHERE those diseases came from.

[@curtiswilson859]

Skiing Bronconut Exactly! All the deadliest diseases came from specific species-crossover events in specific locations.

[@curtiswilson859]

Skiing Bronconut so in other words it has a lot to do with geography

[@j8jatse4jat90]

Swine

[@kkon5ti]

Interestingly, while Brazil has all of this cattle as use for the meat industry, the indian cows for the most part are not for production, but rather seen as an almost equal living being

[@meteorite1157]

kkonsti tho they are a big part of meat trade lol

[@kkon5ti]

Meteorite 11 well, obviously indians eat meat aswell. Just less cattle than the rest of us.

[@Sanatani_kattar]

@Dk ny no it's Buffalo beef

[@requaldebbarma3383]

@Pichkalu Pappita how comes india have 28 states ??🤔are u indian ?

[@drpk6514]

Nah most are being exported.

[@itzelmondragon7020]

Thanks for including the honeybees!!

[@lettuce9466]

9:35 that's Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan

[@anona1071]

The map is wrong but Bactria was the ancient name for Afghanistan.

[@nikbow3353]

Its more of Tajikstan and Kyrgiztan

[@nicklatino7157]

They are countries in central Asia

[@realpolitics527]

Some part of Bactria was in north west Pakiatan too... So he wasn't completely wrong

[@meows_and_woof]

Imagine waiting for a salary and at the end of the month truck comes and drops 1000 cows to your backyard

[@gefiltetronbakerofbagels9671]

This is a great video, also great to know you have a sense of humor behind that formal speech

[@loryenipsum]

I love the care you take with the maps, thank you for the channel :)

[@sprucecopse9617]

Every time you make a video it's like a Christmas gift!

[@ivandjurdjevic7463]

sprucecopse oh please, you don’t even know his real name

[@zweihanderr221]

@@ivandjurdjevic7463 I dont too, but im excited for the content and fascination I'm about to recieve at the end of the video. I can enjoy and appreciate his content and hardwork without knowing his name.

[@ninpeg4441]

@@ivandjurdjevic7463 Why do people need to know his real name to enjoy his video?

[@lasschesteven]

Anyone else bothered by the fact that he showed a wisent as an aurochs and a warthog as a wild boar?

[@IntyMichael]

Yeah, I was a bit confused when this picture came up, as we still have quite a lot of wild boars over here in Germany.

[@HimejiMac]

Yes. And he said "Auroch", rather than "Aurochs".

[@alejandroojeda1572]

Yeah, quite bothered as I find them regularly around home

[@leventekircsi2335]

I am, there is a huge missed opportunity because there is a breed of cow that was bred to reconstruck the aurochs callen the "heck cattle" and they look like aurochs.

[@alexanderworth4352]

he might not have found any images of the real things so he got some that look similar

[@matthewtopping2061]

Austrolopithecus first emerged in East Africa close to three million years ago. It isn't known exactly why they declined, but climate change and evolutionary transition likely had a lot to do with it. It's important to note that H. erectus was the first hominin to master fire for cooking just under two million years ago.

[@HiMoncsi89]

You are awesome! I'm binging your videos! So fun, interesting and mind-blowing the same time! Keep doing what you do!

[@GiorgosKoukoubagia]

PLEASE DO make an entire video about chickens!

[@Qiyunwu]

Australopithecus and Homo sapiens were not around at the same time! Did you put that in just to wait and see anyone will call you out on it

[@oscarnemo8084]

I've certainly never seen them in the same place at the same time. Separately, sure.

[@ninjanerd98]

He doesn’t actually say that they were around at the same time, just points out that meat was important for early human survival by comparing them to a failed similar creature

[@kierancalder8573]

Are ancestors Homo Erectus were the first to start cooking around 2million years ago. I think that's what he means

[@sonikku956]

He said humans, not Homo sapiens specifically. Humans are every ape in the genus Homo.

[@swedishfool91]

I think the language he used was alittl unclear and can definitely be misunderstood. Should probably have made more distinction between humans and modern humans, especially on a KZbin channel where people might not be familiar with hearing 'humans' in this distinction.

[@carpo719]

great video, thanks. A note about the honey bees, even today a lot of beekeepers do not wear suits. Honey bees will not sting you so long as you are careful. they are amazing creatures

[@dandanlivetwice2397]

Thank you, I have been reading this book: Domesticated Evolution in a man made world by Richard C Francis and the book really expand my knowledge on evolution. Your video touched on everything he wrote in his book. Nice to see people expanding knowledge.

[@RJ-xl2cd]

9:34 Turkmenistan: Am I a Joke to you?

[@sulaimangulzar6727]

Raheem J actually it’s Afghanistan,Uzbekistan and Tajikistan

[@christofelmalik4240]

Yes you are

[@bannazzz3896]

@Chris_Wooden_Eye savage alert

[@dorarobertson2897]

I'd like to see a video about the geography of vegetables as well as flowers, because it occurred to me that I don't really know much about where certain flowers originated from.

[@jeanmeslier9491]

There is a video on youtube about where many of our flowers came from and still exist in the wild, is a valley in China.

[@michaelralte8195]

10:50 that is not what we call North-India but rather Northeast India (a bit of East India which is Bengal) which is distinct from North India culturally, demographically, historically and most importantly in this context ecologically.

[@BJETNT]

I am glad I ran into your videos!! Very cool and educational, thanks so much

[@LibertarianLeninistRants]

Next time The Geography of Staple Food?

[@fajaradi1223]

@Potential Propaganda Either both of you have a questionable username

[@codysparks5869]

Thank you. Now that veggietales song "The Song of the Zebu" finally makes sense!

[@davidmelgar1935]

That explains a lot. Thank you for the great video,!

[@pauldenhelder]

would love to see more on this subject! dogs, cats, rabbits, minks, still, guinea pigs... im curious about those too

[@kevinknight997]

The word kid comes from old Norse "kith" meaning young goat

[@tamino27]

in german the word Kitz is still used for a young deer and now I know where it comes from

[@shaheenakhter9975]

In Hazara and Punjab of PAKISTAN we call them mâma.

[@felipeoyarzun5424]

In Chilean slang, we call children "cabritos", which literally means 'young goats', now that's interesting

[@kiwuuspurr1927]

@@shaheenakhter9975 mâma? Isn't that what middle aged people are called in Pashto?

[@patrick247two]

Hey, you cut New Zealand off your map. Interesting video.

[@lecisteim_1945]

I bet it was on purpose

[@Romandy13]

New Zealand doesn't exist.

[@MeloncholyKay]

Its a conspiracy

[@overgrownswamp]

r/newzealandmappolice

[@TarebossT]

Everybody cut New Zealand off maps these days...

[@findinghare4588]

Just found the channel, loving the vids man!

[@stevevassallo4323]

“Goats are very similar to sheep” You obviously haven’t spent any time with either.

[@slappy8941]

Triggered over goats and sheep lol...

[@stevevassallo4323]

@@slappy8941 Thanks for the engagement.

[@camberon2225]

Lol have you ever seen either

[@camberon2225]

”The goat is a member of the animal family Bovidae and the subfamily Caprinae, meaning it is closely related to the sheep”

[@stevevassallo4323]

@@camberon2225 Well, Unlike you, I have both on my farm and they are behaviourally very different so think twice before talking out of your ass.

[@judzon144]

These kind of videos are amazing; History and geography merged.

[@ryanronchak401]

Judzon Yes!!!

[@albindirk-luhe5729]

“Horses are probably the most awesome of the animals that we eat” **Ikea shifts nervously** Edit: 8:10

[@chefhuncho2048]

😂😂😂

[@chefhuncho2048]

Their meatballs are sublime though

[@albindirk-luhe5729]

christian george I cannot disagree

[@warhawkjah]

Except for dog in some parts of the world.

[@frankstein7631]

Nom Nom nom

[@differentfins]

Here is Canada one of the most common wild chickens is the ruffed grouse. We call them chickens, it's slang I know. I have, however, always wondered if they could be domesticated. I am sure they could. Also being fed grains they would taste much different from the pine needle eating wild grouse.

[@eyon7630]

When he said "African wild ass" with that smug voice I just lost it all xDDDD

[@Randomdudefromtheinternet]

You forgot another kind of bee, the melipona bees, also known as stingless bees, which have an extension from Argentina to Mexico. Their hives are very small and don't produce honey en masse like the European honeybee, but besides being used for sweetening foods and drinks, their honey was more valued for their medical applications.

[@joaopintto2194]

5:51, Eurasian boar? but these are WARTHOGS

[@marshallferron]

@Mø Nälayé It's not a different name for the same thing it's a totally different species.

[@eliahaj6503]

@@marshallferron indeed.

[@Bruh-pt4fo]

BRRRRRRRRRRRRT

[@niBBunn]

Bruh Nice pun

[@daliborjovanovic510]

@Mø Nälayé Eh.....what? You do realize warthogs are a completely different species from Eurasian boars, right? That would like showing a bison and calling it an aurochs-oh wait, he did that too in this video.

[@BEdwardStover]

I graduated from Central Missouri State University. Now just called Central Missouri University, Our team mascots are Mules. Except for female teams. They are Jennies. Like the donkeys they are derived from, the female mule is known as a Jenny. There is an actual good reason for this. CMU was founded in 1871 in Warrensburg Missouri, county seat of Johnson County. It had the distinction of being the main location for the mule trade during the Civil War. For the Union. Which is a little odd in that there was a battle about 35 miles north of here. The Lafayette County Courthouse in Lexington bears a scar from this battle. A cannon ball is embedded near the top of one of the columns of the courthouse. A stray from the Battle of Lexington nearly a half mile away.

[@mrh4900]

Just a minor detail, I’d like to point out... just to clear up any misconceptions: there were no Turkic people in Anatolia during the times these animals were domesticated.

[@nickgehr6916]

*Cows are basically real life dragon without ignition because they farts methane*

[@Shaden0040]

They belch methane no fart it out actually.

[@safir2241]

Andy Holcroft It’s 98% according to my silly brain

[@AtomicReverend]

Alexandria ocasio-cortez says cow farts are bad and if you argue this you're not seeing the forest or the trees.

[@Treviath]

The grass would produce methane while decomposing with or without the cow

[@NK-cq5hj]

The earth: how many animals would you like to domesticate? Turkey: *yes*

[@EarthChampion_TophBeifong]

Well, the not the turkish, but the people who used to live there long before the turks. Let's remember the actual turks reached and established themselves in Anatolia just like the Europeans did in the Americas, before the turks, what is now turkey was as greek as Greece gets. And before them, other ancient civilizations like the Hittites.

[@NK-cq5hj]

Toph Beifong that’s why I said Turkey and not the turkish.

[@alperenbaser7952]

@@EarthChampion_TophBeifong Anatolians and Greeks are totally different nations

[@EarthChampion_TophBeifong]

Alperen Başer there was never been an “Anatolian nation” since the Hittites in the Bronze Age, an empire that existed for 3 centuries, after its fall Western Anatolia has always been populated by Greeks, ruled by different empires like Lydia, Persia, the Seleucid and the Romans for approximately 2000 (two thousand!) years until the Mongols forced the Turks to immigrate into Western Asia and later they started conquering land from the Byzantine Romans under Seljuk Empire’s leadership.

[@alperenbaser7952]

@@EarthChampion_TophBeifong Lydia is not different Empire but a Anatolian state just like Hattians and Cappadocians

[@Danishmastery]

I love your channel, man!

[@garfieldnate]

That was super cool! I'd love to see another video done on fruits, many of which have been created by human breeding over thousands of years.

[@yavyav2281]

"I can do a complete video on chickens" well im waiting that greatly XD Btw I love your videos ! Keep it up !

[@hiddenecho9056]

Fascinating topic, I'd love to see a video on key agricultural crops civilizations utilized as primary food source. Einkorn wheat, Emmer Wheat, barley, millet, rice, and potatoes come to mind as immediate topics of interest that fundamentally fueled key civilizations around the world, but frankly there's a huge variety to be had and these are just the immediate one. Yucca, yams, and onions (the latter of which were considered military food by the Greeks), are also interesting to consider. This is really not even getting into what we've done, like with plants from the Brassica-you have brussel sprouts, cauliflower, kale, collared greens, etc.

[@rateeightx]

Even If It's Not The Point, I Find This Channel To Be Great For Worldbuilding.

[@benjamindivner3860]

In Hebrew turkies are called "תרנגול הודו" which means chicken of India, which is funny because A) Chickens (Red junglefowl) are, as you've mentioned, sort of from India B) They are called that in reference to the idea upon arrival to America that it was India

[@bigredwolf6]

You forgot to mention how Canadians domesticated bears by making them chemically dependent on maple syrup

[@jayasuriyas2604]

Lol

[@bigredwolf6]

Krok Krok yea but if I made fun of America like that, I’d basically be reporting actual news. At least with Canada it’s an obvious joke lol. It wouldn’t surprise me if a bear got raging drunk off of bud light in America

[@douvik8615]

@Krok Krok they love to joke and create stereotypes about canada, and are now stealing the culture of quebecers... They're just americans tbh

[@someoneinthecrowd4313]

Douvik I agree. Canadians are just Americans.

[@pepearown4968]

Someone In The Crowd Well yes. They are because Canada’s in the continent of North America. I don’t like when people say “American” to mean US American. America is its own 2 continents, being North and South America. There’s also Central America, which is actually just part of North America.

[@vvventure]

Llamas, alpacas but you also missed vicuñas and guanacos, they strecht far south, the last ones even enccounter with penguins once a year in Punta Tombo.

[@schneiderwm]

I want to know why their related to camels.

[@simonj3413]

Llamas are descended from guanacos. Alpacas are descended from vicuñas.

[@prototropo]

Great information. The historical hero who first explored where human foods originated was Nicolai Vavilov--a brilliant agronomist who died in Stalin's gulags. I recommend his story to everyone---his theoretical model is called Centers of Origin.

[@Max-se3ii]

8:51 Could we get an instant replay of that

[@jeremyf6821]

Fun fact, one of the first creatures we domesticated as livestock, was actually snails.

[@catdemon922]

Source? I'm Interested

[@stonewalljackson9739]

This channel deserves more subscribers. Amazing content!

[@alecfromminnenowhere2089]

Informative and darn entertaining.

[@chary.zevetstudent]

The sarcasm in 11:47 is ASTRONOMICAL!!! xP

[@Ben-outdoors]

This is such a wonderful video! Good job and thank you :)

[@_robustus_]

You say eurasian wild boar but you showed a warthog. Um...yes I’m a geek.

[@pepearown4968]

To be fair, it is rather common knowledge that wild boars have far less extravagant tusks than warthogs.

[@gorgeousgeorge4102]

I love that the video starts immediately

[@clark9992]

Don't forget mules. They are different from the rest. Not domesticated, but created. The hybrid offspring of a domesticated mare and a domesticated male donkey. I always thought they were a rather recent thing, but actually were known in ancient Egypt before 3000 BC.

[@cerberus3721]

4:54 "this look completely notable different most cows we used to" Me, a brazilian: "How? is the same thing, the hump is one of the best/normal cuts!" 5:21 "ahhh makes sense, we dont use 'european' cows then..."

[@jasonchapko3874]

Awesome. Make a vegetable one please! I love vegetables!

[@devonmeyers8213]

Another animal that deserves a shout-out is the Reindeer. Interestingly, there’s been some research showing a possible genetic link between Inuit reindeer and camels. Also, Yaks share a close genetic relationship with the North American bison, but many domesticated yaks are often a hybrid of wild yak and cattle. While I’m on a roll here with these fun facts; I’d like to point out that Homo sapiens are more closely related to chimpanzees, than the African elephant is to the Asian elephant. I wonder if other animals have a hard time distinguishing between us primate species🤔

[@arthurloui]

Funny thing is that Turkish people actually do love animals. Cats and dogs freely roam in Istanbul, they are always fed and taking care by the general population. Store owners have collection boxes to collect donation to buy food for them. The are even cat and dog house built in the streets. Ancient buildings have bird houses that looks tiny palaces built on their wall. It was something they used to do since the Ottoman Empire Era. They even had hospital to take care of storks that were injured during their migratory route. There is a video about it on youtube look it up

[@loganmonk3178]

6:55 "I guess the turkish just really loved domesticating animals" In all of the examples prior to the domestic turkey, the turkish people at those times lived nowhere near the area where those animals were domesticated, but rather in the Eurasian steppes.

[@sodr7440]

Saying by the appearence, Anatolian Turks are just anatolian people adopted the turkish culture.

[@evangallermo42]

Are you going to tell us who lived there instead? You can't leave me hanging like this. I'm just a simple musician.

[@wakakabravo7998]

they probly persian or greek.

[@sodr7440]

@@wakakabravo7998 Mostly anatolian native people. Big amount of Greek, Turkic, Arabic, Persian, mix and also uncountable amount of others (kurdish, armenian, celtic, circassian, laz, latin, gypsy...) To be fair in any nation there can be made list this long. Especially Turkic nations since they've conquered and migrated a lot. As a southwest anatolian, i consider myself as a turk becouse im living in a turkic culture and language.

[@pitzboechannel]

Exactly! Turks were a ton of different tribes in Asia. Anyway, he got Turkeys right. Turks were already in Turkey by then

[@Bear-ym3gm]

My favorite animal name is the "african wild ass" 8:52

[@yungtrashlord]

lmao i was laughing at that name too

[@christophersobieszczyk9234]

Love the origin videos

[@ancientgamer3645]

How about a video on how background radiation has affected genetic diversity. We know that the background radiation was much higher millions of years ago, but how high was it during different eras(?), and how much affect would it have had?

[@deshpande7982]

can u do dinosaurs plz, like a video where you tell where the famous dinos lived

[@temseti0]

Famous Dinosaurs are STILL alive. Most of them fly.

[@aaroncurtis8545]

When we first domesticated the dinosaurs?

[@temseti0]

@@aaroncurtis8545 I think that it was just stated that the first domesticated dinosaur was the chicken.

[@aaroncurtis8545]

@@temseti0 haha, you're right, I'm slow

[@bigfart05]

@Baldboy Elbow is disabled That the most retarded thing ive ever heard

[@TheWolfboy180]

5:53 Eurasian boar: Everything in Eurasia is your kingdom. Eurasian piglet: What’s that dark place over there? Eurasian boar: That’s Tibet

[@orientnayan]

10:41 - I shook my head in disagreement because a variety of a silkworm is actually fried and eaten by a few tribes in Assam (North-Eastern India). It tastes like the French version of scrambled eggs.

[@dyllanfreiheit6330]

Some Chinese eat silkworms too, after they took the cocoons for silk, the pupa inside it was fried and eaten. It's perhaps a side product of silk-making.

[@jackandblaze5956]

Yes. I've eaten silk work larvae in Korea. They look like little cockroaches. It's like eating a tasteless, dusty powder.

[@PS-pw8sm]

silk worms are eaten all over asia it seems like. Especially southeast asia.

[@tintun8918]

@Dylan L you don't get parasites by eating insects you fucking idiot. They mostly live inside vertebrates.

[@sashacastillo9590]

Thank you for including bees! They make a tremendous impact, and therefore they are awesome, except when they sting.