According to this theory, animal domestication began because permanent water holes attracted hungry animals that came to graze on the stubble of the grain fields. People, finding these animals too thin to kill for food, began to fatten them up. This theory is known as the desiccation theory, or:

a. hilly flanks theory.
b. oasis theory.
c. domestication theory.
d. leisure theory.
e. hungry animal theory.


b

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