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We sense early on, from Mortensen’s delicate handling of their courtship, that this isn’t some musty rehash of the trope where she civilizes him and he domesticates her.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2024

So these captive wolves have taken on an uneasy status: not wild, nor yet domesticates.

From The Guardian • Nov. 24, 2020

Cats are called commensal domesticates, Levy reminded the jury, which means they choose to live with humans, but they can revert back to feral state.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 12, 2014

We have thousands of plant and animal domesticates that are going to have to go with us.

From Scientific American • Dec. 19, 2012

Indians adopted Mexican crops, and many of them discarded many of their local domesticates, piecemeal; squash was domesticated independently, corn arrived from Mexico around A.D.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond