Something about this guy's maverick nature keeps him implausible as even a semidomesticated creature.

'There's one colony of rabbits in the book, a sort of semidomesticated colony.

Eventually, 900 people were granted "swan marks" - a carving on the swan bill that designated the ownership of semidomesticated birds allowed to range freely.

Federal regulations bar introduction of the semidomesticated herds to any region where they might interbreed and weaken the genetic stock of their wild caribou relatives.

It had the look of a semidomesticated creature, and I took care to leave a coin beside the bloodless carcass to reimburse its owners for my nourishment.

These semidomesticated migrants have no interest in making Meadowlands their main home, but they have not the remotest hope of finding work in the drought-ravaged Zulu homeland.