Tame animal
A tame animal is an animal that is relatively tolerant of human presence. Tameness may arise naturally (as in the case, for example, of island tameness) or due to the deliberate, human-directed process of training an animal against its initially wild or natural instincts to avoid or attack humans. The tameability of an animal is the level of ease it takes humans to train the animal, and varies among individual animals, breeds, or species.[1]
In other languages, the word for taming is the same as the word for
Taming implies that the animal tolerates not merely human proximity, but at minimum human touching.
Taming versus domestication
Domestication and taming are related but distinct concepts. Taming is the conditioned
Domestic animals do not need to be tame in the behavioral sense, such as the Spanish fighting bull. Wild animals can be tame, such as a hand-raised cheetah. A domestic animal's breeding is controlled by humans and its tameness and tolerance of humans is genetically determined. Thus, an animal bred in captivity is not necessarily domesticated; tigers, gorillas, and polar bears breed readily in captivity but are not domesticated.[5] Asian elephants are wild animals that with taming manifest outward signs of domestication, yet their breeding is not human controlled and thus they are not true domesticates.[8][5]
See also
- Dressage and reining for horses
- Lion taming
- Tame bear
- Tame elephant
- Animals in professional wrestling
References
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- ISBN 9780521341783. Retrieved 2013-04-25.
- ^ See, e.g., Geist 2011a,b.
- ^ For examples with mountain sheep Ovis spp., see Geist 2011a,b.
- ^ PMID 19528637.
- ^ Diamond, J (2012). "1". In Gepts, P (ed.). Biodiversity in Agriculture: Domestication, Evolution, and Sustainability. Cambridge University Press. p. 13.
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- ^ Lair RC (1997) Gone Astray: The Care and Management of the Asian Elephant in Domesticity (Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, Thailand
Sources
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- Geist, V (2011b). "Response to Rogers and Mansfield (2011) and Stringham (2011)". Human–Wildlife Interactions. 5 (2): 192–196.
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