What does wildlife mean?
Definitions for wildlife
ˈwaɪldˌlaɪfwildlife
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Princeton's WordNet
wildlifenoun
all living things (except people) that are undomesticated
"chemicals could kill all the wildlife"
Wiktionary
wildlifenoun
animals living and plants growing in their natural environment
wildlifenoun
members of a college fraternity
wildlifenoun
Wild animals, excluding fish.
wildlifenoun
Wild animals.
ChatGPT
wildlife
Wildlife refers to all undomesticated animals, insects, plants, fungi, and other organisms that live, grow, and reproduce in their natural habitats, not generally controlled by humans. This includes species in forests, deserts, grasslands, rainforests, under the sea, and other ecosystems. Wildlife plays a crucial role in balancing the environment and contributes to biodiversity.
Wikidata
Wildlife
Wildlife traditionally refers to non-domesticated vertebrates, but has come to broadly reference to all wild plants, animals and other organisms . Domesticating wild plant and animal species for human benefit has occurred many times all over the planet, and has a major impact on the environment, both positive and negative. Wildlife can be found in all ecosystems. Deserts, forests, rain forests, plains, grasslands, other areas including the most developed urban sites, 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 wildlife around is affected by human activities. Humans have historically tended to separate civilization from wildlife in a number of ways including the legal, social, and moral sense. Religions have often declared certain animals to be sacred, and in modern times concern for the natural environment has provoked activists to protest the exploitation of wildlife for human benefit or entertainment.
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'wildlife' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4436
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'wildlife' in Nouns Frequency: #1849
Usage in printed sourcesFrom:
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of wildlife in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of wildlife in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of wildlife in a Sentence
Carole Scofield told the news station Carole Scofield thinks this is the second time this same bear has broken into their home looking for food. The first time it broke down their front door. In total, the couple said they have had trouble with bears on six different occasions during the 20 years they’ve lived in South Lake Tahoe. Lesa Johnston, with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, told KOLO8 that bears normally rummage through trash cans in search of food, but they're also known to look elsewhere. At some point in the bears' life, they gain some type of food reward by breaking in a cabin or a home, so they remember that, so the behavior is likely to be repeated, Lesa Johnston said. We are very lucky, both major break-ins, we were very lucky. I know a lot of people have not been. It has been very, very costly.
For almost one year our team members have been working tirelessly, with the utmost determination to protect each other and the wildlife in our care from this highly contagious virus, the safety of our staff and the wildlife in our care remains our number one priority.
Clinton Campaign Chairman John Podesta:
One time, I was visiting with him in his dacha outside of Moscow, and he was going on and on, you know, just listing all of the problems that he thinks are caused by the United States, ... I said, ‘You know, Mr. Prime Minister, we actually have some things in common. We both want to protect wildlife, and I know how committed you are to protecting the tiger.’ I mean, all of a sudden, he sat up straight and his eyes got big and he goes, ‘You care about the tiger?’.
Our biggest mission is to protect the wildlife resources out there and so trying to balance now the two is very important to us.
It's already clear wildlife is being killed by this mud, to say the mud is not a health risk is overly simplistic.
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Translations for wildlife
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- الحياة البريةArabic
- Fauna, TierweltGerman
- faŭnoEsperanto
- vida silvestreSpanish
- villieläinFinnish
- nature, flore, environnement, fauneFrench
- fiadhúlraIrish
- fiadh-bheathaScottish Gaelic
- वन्य जीवनHindi
- vadvilágHungarian
- margasatwaIndonesian
- faunaItalian
- חיות ברHebrew
- 野生動物Japanese
- 야생 동물Korean
- truculenterLatin
- wildlevenDutch
- vida selvagem, fauna, animais selvagensPortuguese
- дикая природа, животный мир, фауна, живая природаRussian
- natur, fauna, vilt, floraSwedish
- vahşi yaşam, vahşi doğa, vahşi hayatTurkish
- جنگلی حیاتUrdu
- động vật hoang dãVietnamese
- 野生動物Chinese
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