Litter (animal) and space, leaving the weakest young, or runts, to die through lack of care. In the wild, only a small percentage, if any, of the litter may survive to maturity, whereas for domesticated animals and those in captivity with human care the whole litter almost always survives. Kittens and puppies are in this group. Carnivores, rodents, and pigs usually have litters, while primates and larger herbivores usually have singletons. Litter (animal) A litter is the live birth of multiple offspring at one time in animals from the same mother and usually from one set of parents, particularly from three to
Tame animal domesticated. Asian elephants are wild animals that with taming manifest outward signs of domestication, yet their breeding is not human controlled and thus they are not true domesticates. Tame animal A tame animal is an animal that is relatively tolerant of human presence. Tameness may arise either naturally (as in the case, for example, of island tameness) or due to human intervention (as the result of animal training). Taming is the deliberate, human-directed process of training an animal against its initially wild or natural instincts to avoid or attack humans, so that it instead learns to become tolerant of humans.