ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Animal breeding

Animal breeding is when humans try to make new and better types of animals. It's like cooking, but instead of using ingredients like salt, sugar, and flour, we use animals with certain qualities.

For example, if we have a chicken that lays a lot of eggs, we might want to breed her with a rooster that has strong and healthy genes. By doing this, we hope to get baby chickens that will also lay a lot of eggs and be strong and healthy.

People also breed animals for other traits, like good behavior or pretty feathers or fur. Sometimes animals naturally have these qualities, but often it takes many generations of breeding to get the animal we want.

Breeding animals isn't always easy. It can take years and years of work to breed the perfect animal, and there's always a chance that things won't work out like we hope. Plus, it's important to remember that all animals are valuable and important, even the ones that don't have the traits we're looking for.