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A tame animal is an animal that is relatively tolerant of human presence. Tameness may arise naturally (as in the case, for example, of island tameness ) or due to the deliberate, human-directed process of training an animal against its initially wild or natural instincts to avoid or attack humans.
American biologist, Stanley P. Young, described tame wolves as thus: Generally speaking, on the basis of their experience, tame wolves are strictly "one-man dogs". They may be confiding and playful with the man who raised them, or even with his whole family, if fed and cared for by them, but they are suspicious and timid in the presence of ...