Question

What did early man tame animals?

Answer 1

when they started domestication and understood that some animals were not harmful, they gave good yields and resources such as milk from a cow and wool from a sheep and some animals also guarded them from other wild animals. So, they began knowing how taming and keeping these animals at home was useful and hence began keeping animals with them and gradually became herders.
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