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Wild animal
Wild animal: an animal living free of direct human control, providing its own food and shelter; distinguished from domesticated and feral animals, with legal definitions and conservation status covered.
Wild Araceae Garden
野生天南星园 (Wild Araceae Garden, 天南星园), an Araceae living collection at Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Yunnan; founded 1995, about 12 mu, holding 30 genera and 147 species, China's largest Araceae collection.
Wild at Heart (film)
Wild at Heart is David Lynch's 1990 road movie, adapted from Barry Gifford's novel, starring Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern as lovers fleeing Diane Ladd's murderous mother; it won the 1990 Cannes Palme d'Or.
Wild at Heart (Neil Diamond album)
Wild at Heart is Neil Diamond's 2026 Capitol/UMe album, the third and final Rick Rubin collaboration, gathering ten previously unreleased 2007 Home Before Dark sessions recordings.
Wild Atlantic Way
Wild Atlantic Way: 2,500 km signposted coastal touring route on Ireland's west coast from Donegal to Kinsale, launched by Fáilte Ireland in 2014; 180 Discovery Points, about €3 billion annual revenue and 35,000 jobs.
Wild Bactrian camel
The wild Bactrian camel, also known as the Gobi camel (Camelus ferus), is a critically endangered two-humped camel living in the deserts of western China and Mongolia.
Wild Bill
Wild Bill is a 2011 British comedy-drama and Dexter Fletcher's directorial debut, written with Danny King, starring Charlie Creed-Miles, Will Poulter, and Sammy Williams; an ex-con on parole reunites with his two sons on a London estate.
Wild Bill Hickok
Wild Bill Hickok (James Butler Hickok, 1837-1876), American frontiersman, Kansas lawman, and gambler; famous for the 1865 Tutt shootout, the 1867 Harper's legend, and his 1876 murder in Deadwood.
Wild Blue Yonder (Doctor Who)
Wild Blue Yonder is the second Doctor Who 60th anniversary special (2 December 2023), written by Russell T Davies, directed by Tom Kingsley, starring David Tennant and Catherine Tate stranded on a spaceship with shape-shifting imposters.
Wild boar
Wild boar (Sus scrofa) is an omnivorous, herd-living wild pig found across Eurasia and North Africa, acclimatized in the Americas, and the wild ancestor of the domestic pig.
Wild Card (2015 film)
Wild Card is a 2015 American action thriller directed by Simon West, starring Jason Statham as a Las Vegas bodyguard who crosses a mob boss.
Wild card (cards)
Wild card (cards): a playing card whose value is decided by the players, able to stand in for any needed card. Includes the joker, deuces wild, one-eyed jacks, poker bug, rummy joker restrictions, UNO wilds, and the term's 1927–1971 word history.
Wild card (sports)
Wild card (sports): a playoff or tournament place for a team or athlete not qualifying by the usual route. Covers MLB's 1994 origin and 12-team format, NFL wild cards, and tennis wild cards.
Wild Cards (shared universe)
Wild Cards is a shared-universe science fiction series edited by George R. R. Martin, in which a 1946 alien virus kills most people and gives a few superpowers.
Wild Cards (TV series)
Wild Cards (2024–) is a Canadian comedic crime procedural created by Michael Konyves for CBC and The CW, starring Vanessa Morgan as con artist Max Mitchell and Giacomo Gianniotti as detective Cole Ellis; filmed in Vancouver, renewed through season 4.
Wild Cherry (band)
Wild Cherry was an American funk rock band formed in 1970 in Steubenville, Ohio, by Rob Parissi, remembered for the 1976 chart-topping single "Play That Funky Music".
Wild Cherry (TV series)
Wild Cherry is a six-part BBC thriller by BAFTA winner Nicôle Lecky, premiered 15 November 2025 on BBC One/iPlayer, set in the fictional wealthy enclave Richford Lake; it streamed on Paramount+ internationally from 24 June 2026.
Wild Child (film)
Wild Child is a 2008 teen comedy directed by Nick Moore, starring Emma Roberts as a spoilt Malibu girl sent to a strict English boarding school.
Wild Coast
The Wild Coast (Transkei) is a 250 km rugged, undeveloped coastline in South Africa's Eastern Cape, a former apartheid homeland, Xhosa heartland, site of the 1 km coastal development ban, Xolobeni mining and Shell seismic-survey litigation, and growing illegal sand mining.
Wild Dark Shore
Wild Dark Shore is Charlotte McConaghy's 2025 climate-fiction novel (Flatiron Books) about the Salt family guarding a UN seed vault on Shearwater Island, based on Macquarie Island, until castaway Rowan arrives; a NYT bestseller, Reese's Book Club pick, and Dymocks Book of the Year 2025.
Wild Dog (film)
Wild Dog is a 2021 Telugu action thriller, also called Operation Wild Dog, directed by debutant Ahishor Solomon, starring Nagarjuna Akkineni as NIA officer Vijay Varma, based on the 2007 Hyderabad bombings and Yasin Bhatkal's capture, released 2 April 2021.
Wild Elephant Valley
Wild Elephant Valley (野象谷, Yexianggu) is a scenic area in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China, within a national nature reserve, home to 100-150 wild Asian elephants, viewed via cable car and skywalk; distinct from namesake sanctuaries in Thailand, Cambodia, and San Diego.
Wild Fire
Wild Fire (野火集) is Lung Ying-tai's 1985 collection of social-criticism essays, first a China Times column. It reprinted 24 times in 21 days, sold over 100,000 copies in four months, and became a touchstone of Taiwan's democratization-era discourse.
Wild God
Wild God (2024) is the 18th studio album by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, produced by Cave and Warren Ellis, mixed by David Fridmann, released 30 August 2024 on Play It Again Sam; a full-band return marked by gospel choirs and themes of joy after grief.
Wild Grass
Wild Grass (Les Herbes folles) is Alain Resnais's 2009 French-Italian comedy, adapted from Christian Gailly's novel L'Incident, about a found wallet linking Georges Palet and Marguerite Muir; it premiered in Competition at Cannes 2009 and earned four César nominations.
Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken
Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken is a 1991 Walt Disney family drama directed by Steve Miner, starring Gabrielle Anwar as diving-horse rider Sonora Webster Carver, based on her memoir A Girl and Five Brave Horses.
Wild Hogs
Wild Hogs (2007) is a Touchstone road-trip comedy directed by Walt Becker, starring Tim Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence, and William H. Macy as suburban bikers versus the Del Fuegos gang; $168.2M US gross, 14% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Wild Honey (album)
Wild Honey is the Beach Boys' 13th studio album, released December 18, 1967 on Capitol (T 2859). An R&B/soul turn produced by the band with Carl Wilson lead vocals, recorded at Brian Wilson's home studio; UK album peak No. 7, later ranked No. 410 by Rolling Stone.
Wild Hornets
Wild Hornets (Дикі Шершні) is a Ukrainian MilTech company founded in 2023 that mass-produces combat drones for Ukraine's armed forces, including FPV kamikaze drones, the Queen Hornet platform, and the STING interceptor.
Wild horse
Wild horse: only Przewalski's horse (Equus ferus przewalskii, takhi) is truly wild; mustangs and brumbies are feral domestic horses. Extinct in the wild 1969, reintroduced in Mongolia, China, Kazakhstan; BLM manages ~85,000 feral horses.