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	Feral child Information
		Feral children may be separated from society by being lost or abandoned in the wild.
		Legendary and fictional feral children are often depicted as growing up with relatively normal human intelligence and skills and an innate sense of culture or civilization, coupled with a healthy dose of survival instincts; their integration into human society is made to seem relatively easy.
		In reality, however, feral children lack the basic social skills which are normally learned in the process of enculturation.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Feral_child (739 words)

	Feral child - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Feral children may be separated from society by being lost or abandoned in the wild.
		Legendary and fictional feral children are often depicted as growing up with relatively normal human intelligence and skills and an innate sense of culture or civilization, coupled with a healthy dose of survival instincts; their integration into human society is made to seem relatively easy.
		In reality, however, feral children lack the basic social skills which are normally learned in the process of enculturation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Feral_child (762 words)

	Genie (feral child) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Genie is the name used for a feral child discovered by California authorities on November 4, 1970 in the Los Angeles suburb of Arcadia.
		She was born in April of 1957 and was the fourth (and second surviving) child to unstable parents.
		Her parents were charged with child abuse, and Genie was taken to a children's hospital in Los Angeles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Genie_(feral_child) (1163 words)

	Feral children
		Feral children are lost or abandoned children, or even children taken by animals, who survive in conditions of social isolation from an extremely young age.
		Some feral children were abandoned due to severe intellectual impairment and disability, and others were victims of child abuse and trauma.
		In mythology and literature, feral children unrealistically (but more romantically) retain their full human intelligence, and their wild upbringing imbues them with a mixture of animal and human instincts which usually serves them in good stead when dealing with humanity.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/wo/Wolf_child.html (253 words)

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		Feral children are NOT the same as autistic or mentally retarded children - both of these conditions are due to aberrations of the normal biological developmental process.
		Therefore, it is not surprising that feral children do not acquire these skills and rather that they may acquire those of their adoptive animal families during these critical socialization years (see stories in links about children raised with dogs, apes, wolves).
		A feral child was caught in the Brasov region of Transylvania, Romania, in early February 2002.
	www.lycos.com /info/feral-child.html (498 words)

	Feral child - WikiFur, the furry encyclopedia
		A feral child is a human raised from infancy by animals with little or no human contact.
		Fictional feral children are almost always portrayed as noble and heroic, although the reality is far less glamorous.
		In fiction and mythology the image of feral children remains compelling because they represent humanity in its wild (and often naked) state, "uncontaminated" by the vices and hypocrisies of civilisation.
	furry.wikia.com /wiki/Feral_child (373 words)

	Feral children in mythology and fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Feral children (that is, children raised by animals) in mythology and fiction are often depicted as having superior strength, intelligence and morals to "normal" people, the implication being that because of their animal upbringing they represent humanity in a wild and uncorrupted state.
		Abandoned in a Welsh forest at the age of 7, the boy who will become Merlin lives wild for a year as little better than an animal, until a falconer who is used to taming wild things captures him and begins the long and difficult task of re-educating him in human behaviour.
		In the book, Mila is taken to a clinic with other feral children, none of whom adapt to humanity as easily as she does.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Feral_children_in_mythology_and_fiction (1390 words)

	161 Wild Things (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This denial of genuine feral cases is closely related to the orthodox anthropological position and requires an unwarranted dismissal of remarkably consistent evidence and testimony.
		This child was said to have been found in Burundi in 1973 by either missionaries or hunters, playing in a group of monkeys.
		A Sydney woman was fined £1 in November 1903 for leaving her child to be reared in a chicken run, with the consequence that the little one could do nothing but imitate the fowls in every way, even to roosting at night.
	www.forteantimes.com /articles/161_feralkids.shtml (10043 words)

	Feral
		She was informed that Feral was to be taken to a government research center in Washington for two weeks.
		Emily felt at loose ends without Feral to occupy her time, and fretted around the office, trying to assemble her notes for the paper she was trying to write.
		Feral sniffed at her fingers and gave them a tentative lick, before shaking her hand as Emily had taught him to do.
	www.angelfire.com /dragon/moondrake/feral.htm (7064 words)

	Feral Children -
		In contrast to fictional and legendary feral children, those in real life are completely unable to cope with human society and usually die soon after they are recovered from the wild, either from human illnesses to which they have no immunity, dietary shock or psychological trauma.
		Some examples of probably authentic feral children are Kamala and Amala, discovered together aged about two and eight in Bengal in 1920, and Victor, the "Wild Boy of Aveyron" in France, who was first sighted in 1797 aged about nine and died in 1828.
		Feral children are not the same as those tragic children raised in extreme isolation or locked in cupboards and cellars for years at a time by mentally disturbed parents.
	famous.adoption.com /famous/feral-children.html (550 words)

	The Neo-Darwinian Anarchist and the Feral Child \| Anarchist news dot org
		The Neo-Darwinian Anarchist and the Feral Child
		Feral children are extremely rare and can be brought up by animals, confined by humans (often parents) or live in the wild in isolation.
		When completely brought up by animals the feral child copies and behaves (within physical limits) almost 100% like that particular animal-carer, including its variety of instincts, fear or indifference to humans, etc. Children with some human experience before isolation from humans can be much easier to rehabilitate after ‘discovery’.
	anarchistnews.org /?q=node/1140 (3192 words)

	The Forbidden Experiment and the Wild Feral Children
		As is so often the case with feral children, Victor didn't take kindly to being trapped and he quickly escaped, only to be caught again a year later.
		We suspect that she had already learned to talk before her feral period, and although her origins were never clearly explained she was able to give some clues as to her past, and Aroles' theory is consistent with these.
		Feral children have long fascinated scientists of many disciplines, but especially those involved in the fields of linguistics and human psychology.
	www.world-mysteries.com /sci_feralc.htm (1801 words)

	Sujit Kumar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I had undertaken research on the importance of human contact at the early stages of child development, the Bowby experiments with orphaned children left for hours alone in their cribs with very little human contact.
		I understood the consequences of this, of a deprived environment, to the neurology of the child.
		Continuously tied to the wall at his bed with strips of bed linen where he remained disturbed, wild and feral until he was discovered by members of the Rotary Club of Suva, and put into therapy in an effort to teach him some semblance of human behaviour.
	www.fijilive.com /sujitkumar/elizabeth.htm (1632 words)

	Backwash - Content - Bored
		Because parents sometimes panic and assume that their son or daughter has been bitten by a ravenous creature and is now doomed to the symptoms of rabies, it’s a good time to make the distinction between a hyper child and a feral child.
		These feral children were not exposed to human beings and therefore they were unable to benefit from the social world of their counterparts.
		If your child actually is dangling from any type of light fixture, at least be thankful that this behavior will end, and your child will never appreciate the company of wolves more than he or she appreciates a memorable, joyous Thanksgiving with the people he or she loves, and loves to pester, the most.
	www.backwash.com /content.php?jouid=4848 (1160 words)

	Zenbit \| Feral Children - Child Psychology - Psychology - Social Sciences - Science
		A comprehensive resource including stories of around 100 feral children, many with pictures; book extracts and reviews, academic articles and essays; and lists of books and other resources.
		The online encyclopedia's entry on feral children, containing a brief description of feral children, a list of several well-known cases, and links to articles about some of the children.
		A lesson about feral children written for children, including a list of films about real and fictional cases.
	www.zenbit.com /Science/Social_Sciences/Psychology/Child_Psychology/Feral_Children (502 words)

	Humans and Animals at the Divide: The Case of Feral Children (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A feral child is the human that is nearly an animal—the familiar that has nearly become the Other.
		In one tale of skepticism that is perhaps as fictional as the feral child it involves, we are told that Aristotle could admit the possibility of animals rearing humans, but insisted that each individual case needed his personal investigation.
		And this is the lesson of feral children who live in the murky region between Self and Other, human and animal—a region we are slow to discover is not one marked by strict boundaries.
	cla.calpoly.edu /~jlynch/Steeves.html (7300 words)

	FERAL CHILD
		A feral child is who, in legend or in fact, has been raised and protected from infancy by animals.
		The case of feral child is offered in the social sciences to emphasize the importance of socialization and the social nature of the human species.
		A feral child is the human that has nearly become an animal--the familiar that has become the Other.
	sociologyindex.com /feral_child.htm (460 words)

	nthposition online magazine: Born to be wild
		In 1830 the Swedish naturalist KA Rudolphi proclaimed that all the feral children were either fictional or congenital idiots, and this became the orthodox view, reinforced by Sir Edward Tylor, the father of social anthropology.
		Investigations showed that a two-year-old child had disappeared from a nearby village 14 years earlier, and it was presumed that a bear had adopted her.
		A number of ferals were hirsute, including Jean de Liège (17th cent), the second Lithuanian bear-child (1669), the Kranenburg girl (1717), the wild boy of Kronstadt (fl.1784), the second Hasunpur wolf-child (1843), the Shajampur child (1898), and the Naini Lal bear-child (1914).
	www.nthposition.com /borntobewild.php (5350 words)

	KMC Forums - The Feral Child — A retard or a survivor — or both?
		Being feral means subhuman; a feral child is one whose upbringing consists of a total isolation from the human species.
		When a child has lost that opportunity to implement and develop those fundemantal requiremnets that the general Society requires, then YES the now Feral child is at a loss and disadvantage as compared to the other children brought up by a responsable parenthood or parental figures or a human society.
		The last part is your opinion, and the child IS mentally retarded in the sense that he or she will be unable to learn basic "human skills" to the same extent as a normal child.
	www.killermovies.com /forums/f11/t330639.html (3206 words)

	Neuroscience for Kids - Neuroscience Movies
		Feral children are those who have been abandoned or lost in the wilderness and have spent a significant amount of their formative years there.
		Over the centuries, stories of feral children have intrigued many people - especially scientists and educators - for possible clues as to the effect of socialization on language and communication skills, learned aspects of human behavior and development and the true nature of humans.
		Depending on the age at which they are removed from human contact and the age at which they are retrieved, feral children may not ever be able to develop normal communication patterns because of the window in early childhood when the nervous system is primed for acquiring language and communication skills.
	faculty.washington.edu /chudler/moviesfc.html (1431 words)

	Hand2Mouth Theatre - The Wild Child
		Based on true accounts of children raised by animals and "rescued" by humans, The Wild Child combines the story of a scientist attempting to civilize a feral child with the journey of an artist into a stark desert where she encounters a wild boy living among gazelles.
		This alternate vision of the wild child's fate is based on artist Jean Claude Armen's claims to have found a child living among the gazelles of the Sahara in the 1970s.
		In one of its two interwoven stories, an 18th-century doctor fails in his attempts to 'civilize' a feral 'wild child.' The other story follows the fantastic, dreamlike vision of a woman who transcends her bleak urban existence to find herself seeking a wild child in an enchanted desert.
	www.hand2mouththeatre.org /archive_wildchild.html (1140 words)

	Howstuffworks "A Real-life Feral Child?"
		No one came to look for her or even seemed to notice she was gone, so she stayed where there was warmth and food - raw meat and scraps - forgetting what it was to be human, losing what toddler's language she had and learning to survive as a member of the pack.
		When she was found, at the age of eight in 1991, Oxana could hardly speak and ran around on all fours barking, mimicking her carers.
		According to the telegraph, there are only 100 known cases of feral children in the world.
	people.howstuffworks.com /feral-child-news.htm (468 words)

	village voice > books > Making American Boys & Savage Girls And Wild Boys by Joy Press
		Give birth to a child, and all those outmoded gender clichés suddenly spring back to life with a vengeance: sugar and spice, snails and puppy dog tails.
		The last creature documented, Genie, wasn't exactly a feral child, but a severely abused girl in 1970s California who never learned to speak, making her a perfect testing ground for linguistic theories of the era.
		Ironically, boyologists hoped to cure society's ills by placing young men in the wild, while actual feral children were plucked out of that very wilderness and "civilized" so they could be alienated from nature like the rest of us.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0414/press.php (868 words)

	Borders - Feature - Being Human: A Conversation with Michael Newton
		Kamala and Amala, as these girls came to be called, were soon famous, the latest in a long line of feral children—children raised in isolation or in the wild—to capture the imagination of more civilized people.
		Their story and those of others are recounted in Savage Girls and Wild Boys, Michael Newton's sensitive, thoughtful, and provocative study of children who disturb the line between humans and other animals.
		I'm less convinced he was the child of the Royal House of Baden, but that something odd had happened to him seems right to me. This may be a slightly disappointing thing to say, but I also don't really mind if it's true or not.
	www.bordersstores.com /features/feature.jsp?file=newton (1567 words)

	Reason Magazine - Publishing's Feral Child
		("Feral House" because, as its slogan says, it "refuses to be domesticated.") Parfrey founded the company a dozen years ago and has carved out a comfortable market niche by specializing in strange and often uncomfortable material.
		Feral House has grown from a one-man bedroom operation to a firm occupying a suite of offices in downtown L.A. with three full-time and three part-time employees, and ever-growing media attention and sales.
		It is able to thrive (or not) precisely to the degree that it provides entertainment or edification for all who care to partake.
	www.reason.com /news/show/28565.html (2925 words)

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