Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Animals that have not been domesticated or tamed and are usually living in a natural environment, including both game and nongame species.
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- noun
animals living andplants growing in their natural environment - noun slang members of a college
fraternity
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- noun all living things (except people) that are undomesticated
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Examples
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The change in wildlife is tremendous, more deer, more moose, more small game and certainly more game birds.
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The change in wildlife is tremendous, more deer, more moose, more small game and certainly more game birds.
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The term wildlife as used here includes plants as well as animals in the wild.
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"When people hear I rescue wild animals, they freak out at the word wildlife, sometimes imagining I have tigers living in the closets," she says.
Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Wild Things' Foster Mom Nancy Ruhling 2011
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The term wildlife was defined in Anon [6] as “in a more scientific sense … wildlife refers to all nondomesticated organisms.
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Her baptism in wildlife research was in the Galapagos Islands and Malaysian Borneo.
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The world's wildlife is being washed away on a tide of platitudes.
Back Biodiversity 100, save our wildlife George Monbiot 2010
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If you had any education in wildlife management or carrying capacity you would not be saying that.
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I garuntee most of them haven't looked at the cold hard facts on how our hunting results in wildlife management on the highest level when done right, and that most of the money used to preserve populations and their habitats comes from lisence fees, stamps, etc.
Is anyone else tired of all these hippies and peta morons? 2009
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I garuntee most of them haven't looked at the cold hard facts on how our hunting results in wildlife management on the highest level when done right, and that most of the money used to preserve populations and their habitats comes from lisence fees, stamps, etc.
Is anyone else tired of all these hippies and peta morons? 2009
skipvia commented on the word wildlife
"In a press conference today previewing a House Republican trip to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that’s meant to promote drilling, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) doubted the existence of actual wildlife in the refuge. “We’re going to look at this barren, Arctic desert where I’m hoping to see some wildlife,�? said Boehner. “But I understand there’s none there.�?
-ThinkProgress.
This comes as a great surprise to most Alaskans, not to mention the bears (polar, brown, and black) wolves, foxes, musk oxen, wolverines, moose, Dall sheep, hares, marmots, pika, fish, and countless native and migrating bird species that live there. Oh...and the 600,000 caribou in the Porcupine herd.
July 17, 2008
reesetee commented on the word wildlife
*eye roll*
Why don't we relocate Boehner to ANWR? Then he can say with certainty that a creature lives there.
July 22, 2008
pterodactyl commented on the word wildlife
*reads WordNet definition*
What about undomesticated people?
July 22, 2008
bilby commented on the word wildlife
"More than a million native animals may have perished in Victoria's fire inferno, a wildlife expert says.
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The wildfires cut through parks and forests and sent countless wombats and other native species fleeing. One resident reported seeing kangaroos bouncing down the road with flames at their backs. 'It is devastating, the actual size of the destruction is devastating to a number of wildlife populations,' Ms (Gayle) Chappell said."
- Fires may have killed a million animals, ninemsn.com.au, 12 Feb 2009.
February 13, 2009