Which word, derived from the Latin for 'wild', describes an untamed or uncultivated animal?
"have been the stock from which domesticated horses are descended. Since the extinction of the tarpan, attempts have been made to reconstruct its phenotype, resulting in horse breeds such as the Konik and Heck horse. However, the genetic makeup and foundation bloodstock of those breeds is substantially derived from domesticated horses, so these breeds possess domesticated traits. The term ""wild horse"" is also used colloquially in reference to free-roaming herds of feral horses such as the mustang in the United States, the brumby in Australia, and many others. These feral horses are untamed members of the domestic horse subspecies (""Equus"
"Feral A feral animal or plant (from Latin ""fera"", ""a wild beast"") is one that lives in the wild but is descended from domesticated individuals. As with an introduced species, the introduction of feral animals or plants to non-native regions may disrupt ecosystems and has, in some cases, contributed to extinction of indigenous species. The removal of feral species is a major focus of island restoration. A feral animal is one that has escaped from a domestic or captive status and is living more or less as a wild animal, or one that is descended from such animals. Other definitions"
"Terra nullius Terra nullius (, plural ""terrae nullius"") is a Latin expression meaning ""nobody's land"", and is a principle sometimes used in international law to describe territory that may be acquired by a state's occupation of it. ""Terra nullius"" stems from the Roman law term ""res nullius"", meaning ""nobody's thing"". According to the Roman law ""res nullius"", or things without an owner, such as wild animals (""ferae beastiae""), lost slaves and abandoned buildings could be taken as property by anyone by seizure. A part of the debate over the history of ""terra nullius"" is when the term itself was first"
"Maverick (animal) Maverick (or cleanskin) animals, usually cattle, are animals that do not carry a brand. In the period of the United States open range, such animals were relatively common. Many cows would give birth in wild or semi-wild conditions, not be located in an annual round up, and their ensuing calf could thus grow to maturity without having been captured and branded for ownership. The term ""maverick"" is from Samuel Maverick, who, among his other claims to fame, was notorious for not branding his cattle. Other U.S. terms for unbranded cattle include ""slick"", ""hairy dick"", and, in Spanish-speaking areas"
"known as wild horses but, unlike Przewalski's horse, possibly the only extant wild horse, the mustang descended from domesticated horses. According to the ""Oxford English Dictionary"" (OED), the English word ""mustang"" comes from two essentially synonymous Spanish words, ""mestengo"" (or ""mesteño"") and ""mostrenco."" Both words referred to horses and cattle defined as ""wild having no master."" ""Mesteño"" was derived from ""mesta"", associations of graziers, and one of their jobs was to deal with strayed cattle. The OED states that the origin of ""mostrenco"" is ""obscure,"" The Spanish word in turn may possibly originate from the Latin expression ""mixta"", referring to"
"horse from the Letea Forest in the Danube Delta. Romanian government is considering the protection of the feral horses and transforming them into a tourist attraction, after it first approved the killing of the entire population. Due to the intervention of numerous organizations and widespread popular disapproval of the Romanians the horses have been saved, but still have an uncertain fate as their legal status is unclear and local people continue to claim the right to use the horses in their own interest. Feral A feral animal or plant (from Latin ""fera"", ""a wild beast"") is one that lives in"
"Res nullius Res nullius (lit: ""nobody's thing"") is a Latin term derived from private Roman law whereby ""res"" (an object in the legal sense, anything that can be owned, even a slave, but not a subject in law such as a citizen nor land) is not yet the object of rights of any specific subject. Such items are considered ownerless property and are free to be acquired by means of ""occupatio"". Examples of ""res nullius"" in the socio-economic sphere are wild animals (""ferae naturae"") or abandoned property (""res derelictae""). Finding can also be a means of occupation (i.e. vesting ownership),"
"Wildlife Wildlife traditionally refers to undomesticated animal species, but has come to include all plants, fungi, and other organisms that grow or live wild in an area without being introduced by humans. Wildlife can be found in all ecosystems. Deserts, forests, rain forests, plains, grasslands and other areas including the most developed urban areas, all have distinct forms of wildlife. While the term in popular culture usually refers to animals that are untouched by human factors, most scientists agree that much wildlife is affected by human activities. Humans have historically tended to separate civilization from wildlife in a number of"
"colonization in 1885. The court found in its advisory opinion that Western Sahara was not ""terra nullius"" at that time. Terra nullius Terra nullius (, plural ""terrae nullius"") is a Latin expression meaning ""nobody's land"", and is a principle sometimes used in international law to describe territory that may be acquired by a state's occupation of it. ""Terra nullius"" stems from the Roman law term ""res nullius"", meaning ""nobody's thing"". According to the Roman law ""res nullius"", or things without an owner, such as wild animals (""ferae beastiae""), lost slaves and abandoned buildings could be taken as property by anyone"
"characters from ancient mythology. Common in Lombardy and the Italian-speaking parts of the Alps are the terms ""salvan"" and ""salvang"", which derive from the Latin ""Silvanus"", the name of the Roman tutelary god of gardens and the countryside. Similarly, folklore in Tyrol and German-speaking Switzerland into the 20th century included a wild woman known as ""Fange"" or ""Fanke"", which derives from the Latin ""fauna"", the feminine form of ""faun"". Medieval German sources give as names for the wild woman ""lamia"" and ""holzmoia"" (or some variation); the former clearly refers to the Greek wilderness demon Lamia while the latter derives ultimately"
"include animals that have changed from being domesticated to being wild, natural, or untamed. Some common examples of animals with feral populations are horses, dogs, goats, cats, and pigs. Zoologists generally exclude from the feral category animals that were genuinely wild before they escaped from captivity: neither lions escaped from a zoo nor the sea eagles recently re-introduced into the UK are regarded as feral. Domesticated plants that revert to wild are referred to as escaped, introduced, naturalized, or sometimes as feral crops. Individual plants are known as volunteers. Large numbers of escaped plants may become a noxious weed. The"
"Cattle mutilation Cattle mutilation (also known as bovine excision and unexplained livestock death) is the killing and mutilation of cattle under unusual, usually bloodless and anomalous circumstances. Worldwide, sheep, horses, goats, pigs, rabbits, cats, dogs, bison, deer and elk have been reported mutilated with similar bloodless excisions; often an ear, eyeball, jaw flesh, tongue, lymph nodes, genitals and rectum are removed. Since the first reports of animal mutilations, various explanations have been offered, ranging from natural decomposition and normal predation to cults and secretive governmental and military agencies, to a range of speculations, including cryptid predators (like the Chupacabra) and"
"eliminating the commodity or property status of animals. Animals, when owned, are classified as personal property (movable property not attached to real property/real estate). The word ""cattle"" derives from the French word ""cheptel"" or Old French word ""chatel"", or personal property. Historian Joyce Salisbury writes that the relationship between humans and animals was always expressed in terms of control, and the idea that animals become property by being domesticated. She notes that Saint Ambrose (340–397) held the view that God controlled wild animals while humanity controlled the rest. Isidore of Seville (560–636) distinguished between ""cattle"", a term for animals that"
"(magazine), wildlife.net and Ranger Rick (for children). Wildlife Wildlife traditionally refers to undomesticated animal species, but has come to include all plants, fungi, and other organisms that grow or live wild in an area without being introduced by humans. Wildlife can be found in all ecosystems. Deserts, forests, rain forests, plains, grasslands and other areas including the most developed urban areas, all have distinct forms of wildlife. While the term in popular culture usually refers to animals that are untouched by human factors, most scientists agree that much wildlife is affected by human activities. Humans have historically tended to separate"
"can turn it to and fro, The nummed beast can neither stir nor goe, The plant is leafless, branchless, void of fruit, The beast is lustless, sexless, fireless, mute: The plant with plants his hungry paunch doth feede, Th' admired beast is sowen a slender seed.</poem> In his work ""Connubia Florum, Latino Carmine Demonstrata"" (1791), Dr. De la Croix writes of the vegetable lamb (translated): <poem> For in his path he sees a monstrous birth, The Borametz arises from the earth Upon a stalk is fixed a living brute, A rooted plant bears quadruped for fruit, …It is an animal"
"controllable by humans. The word's etymology is from the Old English ""wildeornes"", which in turn derives from ""wildeor"" meaning ""wild beast"" (wild + deor = beast, deer). From this point of view, it is the wildness of a place that makes it a wilderness. The mere presence or activity of people does not disqualify an area from being ""wilderness."" Many ecosystems that are, or have been, inhabited or influenced by activities of people may still be considered ""wild."" This way of looking at wilderness includes areas within which natural processes operate without very noticeable human interference. Wildlife includes all non-domesticated"
"claim the term is a latinisation of the Frankish word *""forhist"" ""forest, wooded country"", assimilated to ""forestam silvam"" (a common practice among Frankish scribes). Frankish *""forhist"" is attested by Old High German ""forst"" ""forest"", Middle Low German ""vorst"" ""forest"", Old English ""fyrhþ"" ""forest, woodland, game preserve, hunting ground"" (English ""frith""), and Old Norse ""fýri"" ""coniferous forest"", all of which derive from Proto-Germanic *""furhísa-"", *""furhíþija-"" ""a fir-wood, coniferous forest"", from Proto-Indo-European *""perku-"" ""a coniferous or mountain forest, wooded height"". Uses of the word ""forest"" in English to denote any uninhabited area of non-enclosure are now considered archaic. The word was introduced"
"also appears in Dante Gabriel Rossetti's poem ""Jenny,"" which mentions a ""toad within a stone / Seated while time crumbles on."" A lizard is found entombed in a rock in the film ""Giant from the Unknown"". Entombed animal Entombed animals are animals reportedly found alive after being encased in solid rock, or coal or wood, for an indeterminate amount of time. The accounts usually involve frogs or toads. The reputed phenomenon, sometimes called ""toad in the hole"", has been dismissed by mainstream science, but has remained a topic of interest to Fortean researchers. References to entombed animals have appeared in"
"Nidicolous A nidicolous animal ( ; from Latin ""nidus"" ""nest"" and ""-colus"" ""inhabiting"") is an animal that stays at its birthplace for a long time because it depends on the parents for food, protection, and the learning of survival skills. They are the opposite of nidifugous species, which leave their parents more quickly and survive independently. Two other terms are also used by scientists for related developmental phenomena: ""altricial"" (relatively undeveloped at birth or hatching; helpless, blind, without feathers or hair, and unable to fend for themselves) and ""precocial"" (relatively developed at birth or hatching; able to fend for themselves)."
"Nidicolous A nidicolous animal ( ; from Latin ""nidus"" ""nest"" and ""-colus"" ""inhabiting"") is an animal that stays at its birthplace for a long time because it depends on the parents for food, protection, and the learning of survival skills. They are the opposite of nidifugous species, which leave their parents more quickly and survive independently. Two other terms are also used by scientists for related developmental phenomena: ""altricial"" (relatively undeveloped at birth or hatching; helpless, blind, without feathers or hair, and unable to fend for themselves) and ""precocial"" (relatively developed at birth or hatching; able to fend for themselves)."
"well as unregulated hunting. Some are already extinct like the aurochs, two subspecies of European bison and perhaps the kouprey. In 1821 British zoologist John Edward Gray described the family, subfamily and tribe Bovidae, Bovinae, and Bovini respectively. The word ""Bovini"" is the combination of the Latin prefix ""bos"" (written as ""bov-"", which is Late Latin from ""bovinus"") and the suffix ""-ini"" refers to their ranking as a tribe. The wild cattle belong to the subfamily Bovinae, which also includes spiral-horned antelope of the tribe Tragelaphini and two aberrant species of Asian antelope, four-horned antelope and nilgai, which belong to"
"that individual also possessed the royal warrant of them, or unless it had escaped from a ""close"". Such a ""close"" was called a ""cony-garth"". A rabbit escaped from the cony-garth was the property of the freeholder. Note that in the following quote from a medieval law forbidding commoners the means to hunt, ""warrens"" are still distinct from ""connigries"". Cunicularium A cunicularium is an establishment of animal husbandry dedicated to the raising of rabbits for meat and fur. This enterprise is known as cuniculture. The term was coined in mediaeval Latin as ""cunicularium"" (plural ""cunicularia""), from Classical Latin ""cunicularis"" ""pertaining to"
"4. Emasculation: The act of weakening,or depriving a man of his identity as a male. It was used in the book to describe how American colonists treated black slave men, for example, by castrating them. They castrated male slaves the same way they castrated bulls. This exemplifies how white men exerted their self-declared power over black men. 5. Homo Ferus:""A wild man who was four-footed, mute and hairy”. The term was created by Carolus Linnaeus to describe people who weren’t white as being half human and half animal. Homo Ferus:""A wild man who was four-footed, mute and hairy”. The term"
"dusk to graze on grasses. While hippopotamuses rest near each other in the water, grazing is a solitary activity and hippos are not territorial on land. The hippopotamus is among the most dangerous animals in the world as it is highly aggressive and unpredictable. They are threatened by habitat loss and poaching for their meat and ivory canine teeth. The Latin word ""hippopotamus"" is derived from the ancient Greek , ""hippopotamos"", from , ""hippos"", ""horse"", and , ""potamos"", ""river"", meaning ""horse of the river"". In English, the plural is ""hippopotamuses"", but ""hippopotami"" is also used; ""hippos"" can be used as"
"Feral pig The feral pig (from Latin ""fera"", ""a wild beast"") is a pig (""Sus scrofa"") living in the wild, but which has descended from escaped domesticated individuals in both the Old and New Worlds. Razorback and wild hog are American colloquialisms, loosely applied to any type of feral domestic pig, wild boar, or hybrid in North America; pure wild boar are sometimes called ""Russian boar"" or ""Russian razorbacks"". The term ""razorback"" has also appeared in Australia, to describe feral pigs there. A feral pig is a domestic pig that has escaped or been released into the wild, and is"
"Pasture Pasture (from the Latin ""pastus"", past participle of ""pascere"", ""to feed"") is land used for grazing. Pasture lands in the narrow sense are enclosed tracts of farmland, grazed by domesticated livestock, such as horses, cattle, sheep, or swine. The vegetation of tended pasture, forage, consists mainly of grasses, with an interspersion of legumes and other forbs (non-grass herbaceous plants). Pasture is typically grazed throughout the summer, in contrast to meadow which is ungrazed or used for grazing only after being mown to make hay for animal fodder. Pasture in a wider sense additionally includes rangelands, other unenclosed pastoral systems,"
"Waif A waif (from the Old French ""guaif"", ""stray beast"") is a living creature removed, by hardship, loss or other helpless circumstance, from its original surroundings. The most common usage of the word is to designate a homeless, forsaken or orphaned child, or someone whose appearance is evocative of the same. As such, the term is similar to a ragamuffin or street urchin, although the main distinction is volitional: a runaway youth might live on the streets, but would not properly be called a waif as the departure from one's home was an exercise of free will. Likewise, a person"
"Feral child A feral child (also called wild child) is a human child who has lived isolated from human contact from a very young age, and so has had little or no experience of human care, behavior or human language. There are several confirmed cases and other speculative ones. Feral children may have experienced severe abuse or trauma before being abandoned or running away. They are sometimes the subjects of folklore and legends, typically portrayed as having been raised by animals. Feral children lack the basic social skills that are normally learned in the process of enculturation. For example, they"
"shepherds caught a forest being, here termed Silenus or Faunus, in the same manner and for the same purpose. Besides mythological influences, medieval wild man lore also drew on the learned writings of ancient historians, though likely to a lesser degree. These ancient wild men are naked and sometimes covered with hair, though importantly the texts generally localize them in some faraway land, distinguishing them from the medieval wild man who was thought to exist just at the boundaries of civilization. The first historian to describe such beings, Herodotus (c. 484 BC – c. 425 BC), places them in western"
"every Indo-European language (e.g. Greek θήρ, θήριον) and is also the root of the Vedic god Rudrá’s name. Latin ""fĕrus"" means ""not cultivated, untamed"" (""Thesaurus Linguae Latinae""), ""of the field, wood"", ""untamed"", ""not mitigated by any cultivation"" (Forcellini ""Totius Latinatis Lexicon"") which fits the environment of the sanctuaries of Feronia and is very close to ""rudis"" (rude). Feronia is one of the Roman and Italic goddesses whose name is formed by a root ending with the suffix ""-ona"" or ""-onia"". This form of a noun denotes a difficult or dangerous state or condition: The deity is a sovereign of that"
"close public land to livestock grazing to protect wild horse and burro habitat. Although the Act uses the technical language ""wild free-roaming"" to describe the horses and burros protected under the Act, the BLM notes that ""today's American wild horses should not be considered 'native'."" All protected animals descend from domesticated horses and burros brought to the Americas beginning in the 1500s. Some escaped to the wild while others were released, and over the ensuing centuries, these feral animals adapted to the Western range. Due to the Act, the BLM manages horses and burros as ""wild"" regardless of their native"
"from the name Fauna, a Roman goddess of earth and fertility, the Roman god Faunus, and the related forest spirits called Fauns. All three words are cognates of the name of the Greek god Pan, and ""panis"" is the Greek equivalent of fauna. ""Fauna"" is also the word for a book that catalogues the animals in such a manner. The term was first used by Carl Linnaeus from Sweden in the title of his 1745 work ""Fauna Suecica"". ""Cryofauna"" refers to the animals that live in, or very close to, ice. ""Cryptofauna"" are the fauna that exist in protected or"
"word ""pullet"" itself comes from Middle English ""pulet"", from Old French ""polet"", both from Latin ""pullus"", a young fowl, young animal or chicken. The word ""fowl"" is of Germanic origin (cf. Old English ""Fugol"", German ""Vogel"", Danish ""Fugl""). ""Poultry"" is a term used for any kind of domesticated bird, captive-raised for its utility, and traditionally the word has been used to refer to wildfowl (Galliformes) and waterfowl (Anseriformes) but not to cagebirds such as songbirds and parrots. ""Poultry"" can be defined as domestic fowls, including chickens, turkeys, geese and ducks, raised for the production of meat or eggs and the"