<P> Taming is the deliberate, human - directed process of training an animal against its initially wild or natural instincts to avoid (or attack) humans, so that it instead learns to become tolerant of humans . The tameability of an animal is the level of ease it takes humans to train the animal . Tameability may vary among individual animals, breeds, or species . </P> <P> In other languages, such as Spanish, the word for taming is the same as the word for domestication . However, in the English language, the two words refer to two partially overlapping but distinct concepts . For example feral animals are domesticated, but not tamed . Similarly, taming is not the same as animal training, although in some contexts these terms may be used interchangeably . </P> <P> "Taming" is also distinct from the use of "habituation" in the field of wildlife biology, as in discussions of how habituation makes bears and other large animals more dangerous . </P> <P> Taming implies that the animal tolerates not merely human proximity, but at minimum human touching . Yet, more common usage limits the label "tame" to animals that subordinate themselves to humans sufficiently that they do not threaten, much less injure, humans who do not harm them or their companions (e.g., offspring or siblings), or at least who threaten to do so . Tameness, in this sense, should be distinguished from "socialization" wherein the animals treat humans much like conspecifics, for instance by trying to dominate humans . </P>

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