Sentences with phrase «human grain stores»

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Some of the lowest quality grain goes into animal feed - you don't want to buy grain to make your daily bread at a feed store, from accounts it is prone to be less clean than grain intended for human consumption and often has small stones in it which can damage many mills.

It has been so well preserved by the sandy seabed that weevils sit in the grain stores, human skeletons lie undisturbed in their graves, and a mysterious stone circle still stands as it was first erected.

Once humans took up agriculture and began storing grain, the ready food source attracted rodents, which attracted cats.

For a cat raiding a grain store in a primitive village, being tolerant of humans became an evolutionary advantage.

Cats were domesticated more than 10,000 years ago, when wild cats in the Nile Delta and Mesopotamian marshlands began frequenting human encampments and villages, attracted to the easy supply of rodents that were seeking out the humans» grain stores.

According to scientists, cats are one of the only animals who domesticated themselves — choosing to live near humans to feed on the rodents attracted by stored grain.

Ancient humans saw wild cats hunting rodents around their grain stores and quickly realized that both species would benefit from living together.

Advantages for humans in this relationship are clear, given the demonstrated rodent threats to stored grain and food security.

Cats were domesticated by humans thousands of years ago for their own benefit, to keep the rodents out of the grain stores.