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>>279827 Non-domesticated animals, aka animals that have always lived in the wild for thousands and bajillions of years, generation after generation, are bred naturally to be the best survivors possible, which means, for predators, to instinctively need to hunt (skillz are usually taught by parents, but the need is still there). For large predators, like tigers, we are naturally prey. For grazers, like deer and whatnot, they're instinctively cautious and run away at any slight noise.
Domesticated animals are ones that have been bred by humans to be useful and to have certain traits. Dogs are a great example. You have a breed for almost any chore imaginable from duck-fetching to rat-hunting to spit-turning. Even lapdogs were bred to be that way.
Though nurture can tame a wild animal to a certain extent, you can never be 100% sure that they won't eventually come after you or play too rough. There are so many stories of people owning lions or tigers and the big cat is just playing when it rips your arm off because it sees you as family and doesn't realize how fragile you are.
Wild animals, even if raised from birth as pets, will still have their wild instincts.
Domesticated animals have had most of these instincts bred out of them and most good pet qualities (non-aggression etc) bred into them. These good traits might not exist naturally in the wild (or at least in large enough amounts as to be noticeable) since things like 'friendliness' might get you killed.
Likewise domesticated animals, if raised in the wild, go feral, revert to their original instincts for survival. Hence why it's dangerous to go near feral dogs and cats (cats tend to be chill though, dogs are more territorial).
So basically environment helps a lot, but it's not a definite, especially if the animal's line of ancestry hasn't been in that same environment for thousands of years.
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