Animals are creatures including “the cow and the ox, and the ass and the horse, and the goat and the wild goat.” As people journeyed in the wilderness of the land of promise, they found “beasts in the forests of every kind” and “all manner of wild animals,” which were “for the use of men” (1 Nephi 18:25).
People “began to raise flocks, and herds, and animals of every kind” after they sowed seed and reaped in abundance (2 Nephi 5:11). Food was prepared for “their flocks and herds, and whatsoever beast or animal or fowl that they should carry with them,” and cattle, sheep, swine, goats, and other animals were “useful for the food of man” (Ether 6:4; Ether 9:18).