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While life expectancy in the wild is about 8 years, wolves in sanctuaries easily can live 15 years.

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  1. adjective Occurring, growing, or living in a natural state; not domesticated, cultivated, or tamed: wild geese; edible wild plants.
  2. adjective Not inhabited or farmed: remote, wild country.
  3. adjective Uncivilized or barbarous; savage.
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  • A barbarian of barbarians, the vitality and endurance of the wild were his, granting him survival where civilized men would have perished. —  Conan -- The Stories from Weird Tales (1932-1936)
  • His kinship to the wild was apparent in his every action; it burned in his smoldering eyes. —  Conan -- The Stories from Weird Tales (1932-1936)
  • But the instincts of the wild were there, that had caused him in his childhood to lie hidden and silent while wild beasts prowled about his covert. —  Conan -- The Stories from Weird Tales (1932-1936)
  • So counting pythons in the wild is a daunting task. —  WSBTV.com - Local News
  • The call of the wild is a call to destiny in Pear Avenue's 'Veracruz.'
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  1. Middle English wilde, from Old English.

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  1. from Middle English wilde, wielde, also wille, will, wil, from Anglo-Saxon wild, untamed, wild, = Old Saxon wildi = OFries. wilde = Dutch wild, savage, proud, = Old High German wildi, Middle High German wilde, German wild, wild, savage (as a noun, wild beasts, game), = Icelandic villr (for *vildr), wild, also bewildered, astray, confused, = Swedish Danish vild = Gothic (Moesogothic) wiltheis, wild, uncultivated; prob. orig. ‘selfwilled.’ ‘wilful.’ with orig. past participle suffix -d (as in old, cold, etc.), from the root of will; cf. Welsh gwyllt, wild, savage, gwyllys, the will. Hence wild, n., wilderness, wilder, bewilder, etc.
 

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