The savages in South Africa match their draught cattle by colour, as do some of the Esquimaux their teams of dogs.
Livingstone states that good domestic breeds are highly valued by the negroes in the interior of Africa who have not associated with Europeans.
Some of these facts do not show actual selection, but they show that the breeding of domestic animals was carefully attended to in ancient times, and is now attended to by the lowest savages.
It would, indeed, have been a strange fact, had attention not been paid to breeding, for the inheritance of good and bad qualities is so obvious.
At the present time, eminent breeders try by methodical selection, with a distinct object in view, to make a new strain or sub-breed, superior to anything of the kind in the country.