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  2. Tame animal - Wikipedia

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    Domestication and taming are related but distinct concepts. Taming is the conditioned behavioral modification of a wild-born animal when its natural avoidance of humans is reduced and it accepts the presence of humans, but domestication is the permanent genetic modification of a bred lineage that leads to an inherited predisposition toward humans.

  3. List of domesticated animals - Wikipedia

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    This page gives a list of domesticated animals, [1] also including a list of animals which are or may be currently undergoing the process of domestication and animals that have an extensive relationship with humans beyond simple predation.

  4. List of Shakespearean characters (L–Z) - Wikipedia

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    A Player appears in the induction to The Taming of the Shrew. A number of characters are players, including, in a sense, the whole cast (except for those in the induction) of The Taming of the Shrew. Plebeians: A mob of Plebeians, four of them individual speaking roles, hear the funeral orations of Brutus and Antony, in Julius Caesar.

  5. Domestication syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Domestication involves taming, which has an endocrine component; and parasites can modify endocrine activity and microRNAs. Genes for resistance to parasites might be linked to those for the domestication syndrome; it is predicted that domestic animals are less resistant to parasites than their wild relatives. [20] [21]

  6. Ark: Survival Evolved - Wikipedia

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    Ark: Survival Evolved (stylized as ARK) is a 2017 action-adventure survival video game developed by Studio Wildcard.In the game, players must survive being stranded on one of several maps filled with roaming dinosaurs, fictional fantasy monsters, and other prehistoric animals, natural hazards, and potentially hostile human players.

  7. Domestication - Wikipedia

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    Domestication (not to be confused with the taming of an individual animal [3] [4] [5]), is from the Latin domesticus, 'belonging to the house'. [6] The term remained loosely defined until the 21st century, when the American archaeologist Melinda A. Zeder defined it as a long-term relationship in which humans take over control and care of another organism to gain a predictable supply of a ...

  8. Bobcat - Wikipedia

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    The bobcat (Lynx rufus), also known as the wildcat, bay lynx, [2] [3] or red lynx, [4] is one of the four extant species within the medium-sized wild cat genus Lynx.Native to North America, it ranges from southern Canada through most of the contiguous United States to Oaxaca in Mexico.

  9. Lion - Wikipedia

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    Lion taming has been part of both established circuses and individual acts such as Siegfried & Roy. The practice began in the early 19th century by Frenchman Henri Martin and American Isaac Van Amburgh , who both toured widely and whose techniques were copied by a number of followers. [ 235 ]