Tameness used in a sentence

Tameness in a sentence as a noun

" At the age of seven or eight months, the pups are given a tameness score and placed in one of three groups.

I would guess that the tameness comes from the non stimulating environment more than the process of selection.

Do you understand the engineering issues involved here to be judging the tameness of the tests?

I hope you see how claiming any level of tameness based on a few photos cannot be considered good evidence.

In the sixth generation bred for tameness we had to add an even higher-scoring category.

What if the breeder's subjective evaluation of tameness was influenced by bushy tails and floppy ears, as most people's would be?

I was also shocked by the tameness of his most embarassing moment, but not because my own stories are cooler -- just much stupider and more awkward!

Considering the relative tameness of the motion controls in the post-Wii era, I think you can safely forego the straps.

The testing & categorization methodology is described in the article:The tests for tameness took the following form, which was still in use as of 2009.

But given that there was prior selection for tameness and that Belyaev specifically looked for those tame foxes to include in his experiment [3], it does not seem so surprising that this trait very quickly became more common.

I'd imagine that breeding them directly for tameness and nothing else would push them in a different direction than allowing them to self-select for fitness in a highly populated urban environment.

Some important changes in physiology and morphology became visible, such as mottled or spotted colored fur. Some scientists[citation needed] believe that these changes obtaining from selection for tameness are caused by lower adrenaline production in the new population..."

Hare "wanted to know if dogs' powerful rapport with humans was a quality that the original domesticators of the dog had selected for, or whether it had just come along with the tameness, as implied by Belyaev's hypothesis".

"[1] In a 2005 paper for Current Biology, Hare suggested that selection for tameness "may have been sufficient to produce the unusual ability of dogs to use human communicative gestures" and that the inability of wild wolves to pick up human cues is caused by their fear of humans.

From what I understand, all sources reporting from this experiment and other similar ones claim huge differences in behaviour not only betweeen the initial generation and the selected ones, but also between control groups of animals which were kept in very similar conditions, except they were not submitted to "tameness selection".