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domesticated

adjective as in tame

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The hybrid lager yeast was domesticated hundreds of years ago and has since been optimized for brewing under cold conditions.

From Salon

A diorama showing native and nonnative urban wildlife in a Los Angeles backyard — a coyote with a cat in its mouth, birds around a feeder, a rat scurrying away, the downtown skyline in the hazy distance — illustrates the relationship between human residents, domesticated animals and wild animals, all living together in close proximity.

In the ancient world, long before modern psychology domesticated sex, Eros was considered a fearful, destabilizing, often ruinous force.

Similarly, a 2022 study in the journal Animal Cognition studied how 16 domesticated cats reacted to hearing a prerecorded voice of their owner when they were directly addressed and compared that to how they reacted to prerecordings of their owners speaking to other humans.

From Salon

"They definitely seem to be attuned to the changing social dynamics in their environment, which is somewhat unexpected given that they were domesticated from asocial species. I would not feel comfortable speculating about love and grief at this point. I think it is safe to say that they can form attachments where they respond to the loss of an attachment figure."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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