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While many people have kept many different species of animals in captivity over the course of human history, only a relative few have been kept long enough to be considered domesticated. Other types of animals, notably monkeys, have never been domesticated but are still commonly sold and kept as pets. There are also inanimate objects that have been kept as "pets", either as a form of game, or humorously (e.g. the pet rock or Chia pet). Domesticated Domesticated pets are the most common types of pet. A domesticated animal is any animal that has been tamed and made fit for a human environment.[52] They have consistently been kept in captivity over a long enough period of time that they exhibit marked differences in behavior and appearance from their wild relatives. Mammals A pet rabbit Alpacas Asses including miniature donkeys Cats Dogs Sheep Horses Goats Elephants Rodents including Fancy rats, Fancy mice, Hamsters, Guinea pigs, and Chinchillas Ferrets Llamas Pigs Rabbits Birds Domestic Canary Chickens Domestic turkeys Domestic ducks and geese Domestic Pigeons and Doves Fish Goldfish Koi Siamese fighting fish Wild The Pasha's Favourite Tiger, oil painting by Rudolph Ernst Wild animals are often kept as pets. The term wild in this context specifically applies to any species of animal which has not undergone a fundamental change in behavior to facilitate a close co-existence with humans. Some species listed here may have been bred in captivity for a considerable length of time, but are still not recognized as domesticated. Exotic mammals Anteaters like southern tamanduas Canidae like arctic foxes, coydogs, dingos, fennec foxes, gray foxes, and wolfdogs Civets like binturongs and genets Deer like leaf muntjacs Duikers Felidae like bobcats, cheetahs, jaguars, leopards, cougars, lions, ocelots, margays, servals, and tigers Marsupials like opossums, gliding possums, koalas, short-tailed opossums, wallabys, and wombats Mongoose Mustelids like badgers, minks, skunks, and otters Primates like capuchin monkeys, chimpanzees, guenons, lemurs, macaques, marmosets, slow lorises, spider monkeys, squirrel monkeys, sykes' monkeys, tamarins, and vervet monkeys Procyonidae like cacomistles, coatimundi, kinkajous, raccoons, and ringtail cats Rodents like chipmunks, degus, dormouse, flying squirrels, groundhogs, patagonian cavys, pouched rats, and prairie dogs. Spotted Hyena Sloths such as two-toed sloths and pale-throated three-toed sloths Birds Pied Crows Parakeets and other talking birds Toucans Peafowl Reptiles Crocodilians, including alligators, caimans, and crocodiles Iguanas Lizards, including bearded dragons, leopard geckos, green anoles, blue tongue skinks, monitor lizards, and green iguanas Snakes, including corns, kings, milks, and ball pythons Tortoises Turtles Amphibians Frogs Newts Salamanders Toads Axolotls Fish Angelfish Barb Cichlid Corydoras Danio Discus Gourami Live-bearer Loach Mbuna Plecostomus Rainbowfish Rasbora Tetra Blenny Boxfish Butterflyfish Chromis Clownfish Damsel Goby Tang Triggerfish Wrasse Arthropods The Caribbean hermit crab is one example of a pet arthropod. Ants Centipedes Cockroaches Crabs and Hermit Crabs Millipedes Praying Mantises Stick Insects Sea-Monkeys Triops Tarantulas and other spiders Non-living Digital pets such as Gigapets, Neopets, Tamagotchi, or Nintendogs Pet Rocks Robotic Humanoid robots – robots designed to resemble and interact with humans such as QRIO, ASIMO, and SPYKEE VOX Robotic pets – artificially intelligent robots treated as pets such as AIBO, Genibo, Robopet, and iDog Robotic stuffed animals – robots covered in fur such as Furby and Zhu Zhu Pets Robotic dinosaurs – robots designed to resemble dinosaurs such as Pleo and D-Rex Domestic robots – some people treat domestic robots such as Roomba as pets |
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