Concept information
Preferred term
wildlife
Definition
- According to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the usage of wild, meaning “of an animal; living in a state of nature; not tame, not domesticated,” can be traced back to 725 c.e. By 1440 c.e., the word wildness, meaning “the state or character of being wild” or “undomesticated,” referred to a particular way of being—a category of behaviors and attributes, but not Kingdom or Phylum-specific ones. [Source: Encyclopedia of Environment and Society; Wildlife]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/wildlife
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