Domestication
Domestication of an animal or plant species is the acquisition, loss or development of new and hereditary morphological, physiological or behavioral traits resulting from prolonged interaction, control or even deliberate selection of the share of human communities. Domestication also refers to the state in which the reproduction, care and feeding of animals, or the cycle of plants, are controlled more or less closely by humans. In common parlance, the term "domestic animal" is often used in the narrow sense of pet, and the verb "to domesticate" as a synonym for taming. The latter term can be applied to an isolated animal while domestication concerns a population or an entire species. A broader understanding of domestication tends to deal with all forms of regular interaction of the human species with an animal species; from the intensive farming of a formerly domesticated species to the reasoned hunting of an animal population considered as a resource.