Re: wild, feral, ??, tame, domesticated

Elyse M. Grasso sikyal:

> I'm in Minneapolis for 4 months on a consulting gig.
>
> I looked out my new apartment window this morning and watched geese grazing on
> the lawn. These were not domesticated geese, nor had their ancestors ever
> been domesticated. They aren't exactly tame: I doubt that you could actually
> touch one. But they don't scatter when a person or auto moves through their
> flock. They actually seemed less alarmed than some domestic geese I've known
> would have been.
In biology there is a term for an animal whose instinctual fear of humans
(or whatever) has been overridden by long contact. Unfortunately, I can't
now remember what the term is--accomodated? Adjusted? Accultured?
Desensitized?

In any case, that's probably the term your looking for.


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