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Working Animal

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A working animal is an animal, usually domesticated, that is kept by humans and trained to perform tasks. The cited article, which is where the term draft animal leads, says some are used for their physical strength, such as oxen and draft horses, or for transportation, such as riding horses and camels, while others are service animals trained to execute certain specialized tasks, such as hunting and guide dogs, messenger pigeons and fishing cormorants. For farm implements it names the power of a team pulling a plough or cart. Implements recorded in the atlas as animal-drawn are grouped under this concept.

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Powers Implement

Entity-backed identity for the power-source enum value this implement already carries, resolved to an agriculture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The power-source fact itself stays on the implement unchanged.

Entity-backed identity for the power-source enum value this implement already carries, resolved to an agriculture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The power-source fact itself stays on the implement unchanged.

Entity-backed identity for the power-source enum value this implement already carries, resolved to an agriculture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The power-source fact itself stays on the implement unchanged.

Entity-backed identity for the power-source enum value this implement already carries, resolved to an agriculture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The power-source fact itself stays on the implement unchanged.

Entity-backed identity for the power-source enum value this implement already carries, resolved to an agriculture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The power-source fact itself stays on the implement unchanged.

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Working Animal
Wikipedia, lead section
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A working animal is an animal, usually domesticated, that is kept by humans and trained to perform tasks.
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