THIS PRESENTATION TELL THAT WHAT IS THE ROLE OF MAMMALS IN HUMAN LIFE. HOW HUMAN ECONOMICALLY AFFECTED BY MAMMALS IN TERMS OF PROFIT AS WELL AS LOSS.

2. Mammals have
great economic
importance in all
parts of the world-
both the Positive as
well as the

3. The Useful Aspects
 For taking the maximum advantage man exercise
his control over several useful mammals by
entering into a contract of domestication with
mammals, offering protection and adequate
nutrition and in return, using the animals (and their
products) for his own benefit.
 Besides domestication, man has developed
comradeship between himself and some other
mammals like the Dog.
 In addition to acting as a guardian of the entire
family especially when they are fall asleep, man
and dog work together and accomplish something “
which neither could have achieved all alone” i.e.,
Hunting.

4. Dairying
Livestock Breeding
Goat farming
Furs, hides and skins
Carcase
Predators of pest
mammals

6. DAIRYING
 Other mammals depend only on their own
mother’s milk. Man, in addition, drinks milk
of other Mammals also like that of cow,
buffalo, uses the milk of other mammals as
a source of additional nutrition for his
offspring as well as for himself.
 In addition, he also uses mammalian milk
for a variety of preparations ranging from
Curd, Butter, Ghee and Cheese to
Sweets.

7. LIVESTOCK
BREEDING The cattle supply milk and milk products, manure and fuel.
 Their dung is now used to prepare Gas which can be used for cooking
purposes.
 When they die or are killed, their hides and skins are used for various
purposes.
 It is necessary to make selection from our stock by gradually
encouraging the increase in numbers of the Superior breeds and
eliminating the inferior ones.
 There are certain modern techniques also like Artificial Insemination
now available with the animal husbandry departments for improving
the breeds.

8. GOAT FARMING Goat is considered to have been domesticated in the world in very
early times.
 The well known Indian breeds are Jamnapari, Beetal, Barbari,
Surati, Malabari and Pashmeena.
 Goats are integral part of Indian rural economy. which provide us
milk, meat, manure, hair hides and skins. Goats milk contain 4.9%
fat, 9.30% Solid material, 4.33% protein and 0.80% ash. Goat
milk easily digest but have poor keeping capacity.
Advantages of Goat Farming
 This animal can thrive and any climatic condition.
 It can feed and live upon items which other animals would normally
not take.
 Its milk is said to contain some antiseptic material which acts as a
preventive /curative for the patients of Tuberculosis.
 It is comparatively much cheaper to start and maintain Goat
farming.
 Goat’s hide converted into leather, is considered to be Superior to
live stock leather.
 The well known Pashmeena shawls famous for their beauty,
durability, warmth and fine texture are obtained from Pashmeena
goats found near above height of 15000 ft. above sea level.

9. FUR, HIDES AND SKIN
INDUSTRY
 Fur, Hides and skins of mammals
have long been used by man for
clothing.
 Fur is use for Soft texture for coats.
 Hides and skins are tanned to prepare
clothing, shelter, building and
numerous other articles of commerce
like attache cases, belts, purses,
shoes, sandles, slippers and
chappals.

10. PREDATORS OF PEST
MAMMALS CAT is an excellent example of a
mammalian predator predating upon
rat- one of the most serious pest of
food grains in the field as well as
storage.
 Mangoose also keeps the number of
cockroaches, crickets and silverfishes
down.

11. The Harmful
Aspects
They are harmful in a
number of ways.
Predator of livestock and
poultry.
Mammals as disease
transmitters.
Mammals as pest

12. PREDATOR OF LIVESTOCK
AND POULTRY
 Wolves, foxes, jackals and bears at
times prey on domestic cattle, sheep,
goats, pigs and poultry jackals and
even dogs prey upon poultry.
 Tigers and lions prey upon many
mammals which are of use to man
also upon man himself.

13. MAMMALS AS DISEASE
TRANSMITTERS
 Tapeworm infection is got by feeding
upon uncooked or undercooked pork or
beef having larval stages of tapeworm.
 Rabies is transmitted generally through
dog and jackal bites.
 The north Indian brown monkey Macaca
mulatta may act as a reservoir of Human
tuberculosis.
 Rats are known to transfer 35 diseases
to man and other animals. Such as
Plague, Typhus fever, Rat bite fever Etc.

14. MAMMALS AS PEST
Many mammals act as pests. Most dangerous
mammals to crops are the rodents. They destroy crops
in fields. They are harmful in houses and buildings also.
They consume all kinds of food stuffs and destroy
property.
The common brown monkey lives generally near human
dwellings, raids, fields and gardens and causes
extensive damage to standing crops and stored food.
Rabbits, mice, wood chucks and some others forage in
vegetable fields and gardens and gnaw at bark to trees.
Pocket gophers eats roots of plants, while squirrels
damage grain and other crops. Besides, bigger
herbivorous ungulates such as deer, bear, boar,
hippopotamus, elephant, kangaroo, etc., also damage