page_title: Human uses of mammals
section_title: For sport
hierarchical_section_title: Human uses of mammals / Practical uses / For sport
caption_attribution_description: "Hunting of Blackbuck with Cheetah".
context_page_description: Human uses of mammals include both practical uses, such as for food, sport, and transport, and symbolic uses, such as in art and mythology. Mammals have played a crucial role in creating and sustaining human culture. Domestication of mammals was instrumental in the Neolithic development of agriculture and of civilisation, causing farming to replace hunting and gathering around the world, and cities to replace scattered communities.
  Mammals provide dairy products and much of the meat eaten by the human population, whether farmed or hunted. They also yielded leather and wool for clothing and equipment. Until the arrival of mechanised transport, domesticated mammals provided a large part of the power used for work and transport. They serve as models in biological research, such as in genetics, and in drug testing.
  Mammals are the most popular of pets, with tens of millions of dogs, cats and other animals including rabbits and mice kept by families around the world. Mammals such as horses and deer are among the earliest subjects of art, being found in the Upper Paleolithic cave paintings such as at Lascaux.
context_section_description: Mammals, including deer and wild boar, are among the game animals most often hunted for sport and for food. Predatory mammals, most often dogs, are used to help catch game, and to retrieve shot birds.
  Mammals are widely raced for sport, often combined with betting on the outcome, especially in horse racing and greyhound racing.
caption: Mughal hunters using a cheetah to catch a blackbuck, Gujarat, 1812. Illustration by James Forbes
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