Bill Truesdell wrote:
> Bees fit only half of 1, and even there it is a stretch. None of the other 
> definitions fit, so bees are not domesticated.
>
> In truth, they act the same in a tree as they do in a box in your apiary.

what about: 'creating a dependency so that the animal loses its ability to 
live in
the wild'?

As I understand it from posts to this group, there are few feral colonies 
able to survive (at least for a reasonable timescale) in the US.  The UK - 
and probably large areas of the world - is little better.

Best wishes

Peter Edwards
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