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means The primal, restless pull toward wilderness and instinct that tugs at anyone grown tired of walls, schedules, and civilized life.

from The phrase was cemented by Jack London's 1903 novel 'The Call of the Wild,' about a domesticated dog reawakened to its ancestral, feral nature. 'Call' here draws on the older sense of a summons or beckoning — like a bugle call or a bird's call — something that reaches out and demands you answer. London's title turned a simple image into a lasting idiom for any deep tug back toward instinct and untamed life.