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Nature's way of reminding you the food chain never clocks out.
means The wild animals and plants living and growing freely in their natural habitat, undomesticated and unmanaged by humans.
from A straightforward compound of 'wild' (untamed, free) and 'life,' first stitched together in the 1800s to name the creatures living beyond the fence line — no hidden roots, just English doing what it does best: smashing two honest words together to make a third.
- legal term
- Many countries define it in law to assign protection
- not zoos
- Captive animals technically do not count as wildlife
- insects included
- A bee counts just as much as a lion
- coined broadly
- 19th century naturalists expanded the word beyond just mammals