| Animal / Type |
Domestication status |
Wild ancestor |
Time of first captivity, domestication |
Area of first captivity, domestication |
Current commercial uses |
Alpaca
|
domestic |
Vicuña |
Between 5000 BC and 4000 BC |
Andes |
wool |
Banteng
|
domestic |
Banteng |
Unknown |
Southeast Asia, Java |
meat, milk, draught |
Bison
|
captive (see also Beefalo) |
N/A |
Late 19th Century |
གླིང་ཆེན་ཨ་མེ་རི་ཁ་བྱང་མ། |
meat, leather |
རྔ་མོང་།
|
domestic |
Wild Dromedary and Bactrian camels |
Between 4000 BC and 1400 BC |
ཨེ་ཤེ་ཡ། |
mount, pack animal, meat, dairy, camel hair |
ཞི་མི།
|
domestic |
African Wildcat |
7500 BC [༡][༢][༣][༤] |
Near East |
pest control, companionship, meat |
གླང་གོག་
|
domestic |
Aurochs (extinct) |
6000 BC |
Southwest Asia, India, North Africa (?) |
Meat (beef, veal, blood), dairy, leather, draught |
ཤ་བ།
|
captive |
N/A |
1970 [citation needed] |
གླིང་ཆེན་ཨ་མེ་རི་ཁ་བྱང་མ། [citation needed] |
Meat (venison), leather, antlers, antler velvet |
ཁྱི།
|
domestic |
སྤྱང་ཀི |
12000 BC |
|
pack animal, draught, hunting, herding, searching/gathering, watching/guarding, meat |
བོང་བུ།
|
domestic |
African Wild Ass |
4000 BC |
ཨའི་ཅི། |
mount, pack animal, draught, meat, dairy |
Gayal
|
domestic |
Gaur |
Unknown |
Southeast Asia |
meat, draught |
ར་མ།
|
domestic |
Wild Goat |
8000 BC |
Southwest Asia |
Dairy, meat, wool, leather, light draught |
Guinea pig
|
domestic |
Cavia tschudii |
5000 BC |
South America |
Meat |
རྟ།
|
domestic |
Wild horse |
4000 BC |
Eurasian Steppes |
Mount, draught, dairy, meat, pack animal |
Llama
|
domestic |
Guanaco |
3500 BC |
Andes |
light mount, pack animal, draught, meat, wool |
དྲེལ།
|
domestic |
Sterile hybrid of donkey and horse |
|
|
mount, pack animal, draught |
ཕག་པ།
|
domestic |
Wild boar |
7000 BC |
Eastern Anatolia |
Meat (pork, bacon, etc.), leather |
Rabbit
|
domestic |
Wild rabbit |
between AD 400-900 |
ཧྥ་རན་སི། |
Meat, fur |
Reindeer
|
semi-domestic |
reindeer |
3000 BC |
ཨུ་རུ་སུའི་བྱང་ཕྱོགས། |
Meat, leather, antlers, dairy, draught, |
ལུག
|
domestic |
Asiatic mouflon sheep |
Between 9000 BC-11000 BC |
Southwest Asia |
Wool, dairy, leather, meat (mutton, lamb) |
མ་ཧེ།
|
domestic |
Wild Asian Water buffalo, (Arni) |
4000 BC |
South Asia |
mount, draught, meat, dairy |
གཡག
|
domestic |
གཡག |
2500 BC |
བོད་ཡུལ།, བལ་ཡུལ། |
Meat, dairy, wool, mount, pack animal, draught |