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	Feral child - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Feral children may be separated from society by being lost or abandoned into the wild.
		Legends describe feral children as having been reared in the wild by animals such as wolves or bears or may become integrated into animal groups.
		Fictional feral children are often depicted as growing up with relatively normal human intelligence and skills and an innate sense of culture or civilisation, coupled with a healthy dose of survival instincts; their integration into human society is made to seem relatively easy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Feral_children (1458 words)

	Wolf Trust - Wolf Children
		Wolf children are a subset of feral children: children who grow up from a very young age, for a significant period of their lives, with strictly minimal or no human contact, and survive, isolated on their own or somehow adopted by animals.
		Feral children are of interest in themselves and are also fascinating for what we can learn about the early socialisation and development of humans.
		Many feral children on examination are found to be seriously mentally retarded and physically small for their age, depending on how young they were when abandoned.
	www.wolftrust.org.uk /a-wolfchildren.html (1657 words)

	feral children in mythology and fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Feral children (i.e., 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 due to 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.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Feral_children_in_mythology_and_fiction.html (849 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Feral Children
		Feral children is the name given to children who spent much of their formative years in the wild, without any contact by other humans for a significant period of their lives.
		The cases of feral children are thankfully rare, but of immense interest from a scientific and educational point of view.
		Study of feral children in the past has lead to breakthroughs in the education of people with learning disabilities, and indirectly lead to the development of sign-language and Braille.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A190847 (903 words)

	Feral Children Science, Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Feral Children - Isolated, Confined, Wild and Wolf Children 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.
		Feral Children in Legend, Literature -- and Life - Trivia Quiz A fun trivia quiz that tests knowledge of mythology, literature, history, current events and zoology.
		Feral Children - Raised By Animals A brief article that touches on some of the controversy surrounding cases of feral children.
	www.nmquest.org /bm1xdWVzdF81NjUyNzI=.aspx (469 words)

	Feral Children -
		It is impossible to know, because the recovered children never learn to communicate with people and in any case they would have been taken by animals when they were too young to remember their real families.
		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.
		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 (460 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.
		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).
	faculty.washington.edu /chudler/moviesfc.html (1431 words)

	Feral Children
		Feral children are children who have grown up with minimal human contact, or even none at all.
		Probably the best-known story of feral children is that of the two girls, Amala and Kamala, who were raised by a she-wolf.
		There are many other stories of feral children in the literature, among others the story of a boy who lived in Syria, who ate grass and could leap like an antelope, as well as of a girl, who lived in the forests in Indonesia for six years after she had fallen into a river.
	www.audiblox2000.com /learning_disabilities/feral.htm (535 words)

	161 Wild Things (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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.
		In 1966 an unsuccessful attempt was made to catch the boy in a net suspended from a helicopter; unlike most of the feral children of whom we have records, the gazelle boy was never removed from his wild companions.
		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.forteantimes.com /articles/161_feralkids.shtml (10027 words)

	Werewolf.com Discussion Boards - Feral Children
		Children brought up by animals usually adopt the diet of their foster family, and that usually means raw meat.
		But in the case of feral children, not only is the child not their own, they are not even the same species.
		The fact that children with no experience of the wild can survive for years out there begs the question whether we all are closer to animals than we think we are despite millions of years of separation from the wild way of life.
	www.werewolf.com /vb/showthread.php?t=301 (1567 words)

	Feral Children
		Also, children that by some twist of fate and/or circumstance were raised in a non-human, inhuman or sub-human environment, and because of it did not learn how to communicate and/or behave in a human manner.
		According to records, both children were wild and immune to cold and discomfort, besides not being able to stand upright, consequently having to move around on all fours.
		A German naturalist and scholar later examined all the earliest documents on Wild Peter and concluded that he must have lived with people until shortly before he was captured, because he wore a rag around his neck and parts of his body were pale rather than tanned, suggesting that he had worn breeches.
	freaks.monstrous.com /feral_children.htm (961 words)

	Feral Children (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Feral children brought up by animals develop a particularly good sense of smell, keen hearing, and excellent sight especially at night.
		Feral children, and otherwise abused or neglected children, can suffer from psychosocial dwarfism growth retardation in which overactive stress hormones depress the child's growth hormone function.
		Feral children would not be classified as human using any of the traditional criteria.
	www.cocoscabana.com /z2004Apr30pixinymph.html (2063 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Extracts \| Savage Girls And Wild Boys: A History Of Feral Children by Michael Newton
		The folk tales of the period tell of "swan children", and in various Märchen - fairy tales - children are suckled by a hind, a goat, a lioness, a wolf, ravens, or even rats.
		After several unsuccessful attempts to catch her (she killed a guard dog with a single blow of her club), villagers tried to lure her into captivity with a pitcher of water, but she was startled and fled to the topmost branches of a tree.
		A canny villager then suggested that they station a woman and some children near the tree, as these would be less intimidating to the girl than the men, and that they smile to her and placidly act out a show of great friendliness.
	books.guardian.co.uk /extracts/story/0,6761,635802,00.html (2656 words)

	Humans and Animals at the Divide: The Case of Feral Children
		And each represents a crisis, not only for the way in which the children in these cases seem inevitable to be mishandled and brutalized as they are introduced to civilization, but because their very existence is a threat to our understanding of what it is to be human.
		It is easy enough to suggest that what keeps feral children from being (fully) human is their lack of human education and culture.
		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 children in mythology and fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For documented cases of real children raised by animals, see Feral child.
		Thus Enkidu, raised by wild beasts, becomes the friend of the hero Gilgamesh (see also Epic of Gilgamesh); the brothers Romulus and Remus, raised by a wolf, become the founders of Rome; Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli, also raised by wolves, becomes the natural ruler of the jungle.
		The Quality Comics hero Black Condor, was a boy raised in Mongolia by intelligent condors, gains the improbable power of flight and later becomes a superhero.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Feral_children_in_mythology_and_fiction (1078 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 (1792 words)

	Results for Feral Children (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Stories of feral children, photos, book extracts and reviews, academic articles and essays, and lists of books and other resources.
		Feral Children in Legend, Literature -- and Life, Stories of young children raised or nursed by non-human animals abound in legend and literature -- and in...
		Feral Children : isolated, confined, wild and wolf children.
	www.casimiro.com /directorio/dmoz/Top/Science/Social...Psychology/Feral_Children (312 words)

	Feral children: conclusions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It is difficult to draw conclusions from studies on feral children; each case was very different - the background of the feral child, the goals of the experimenter and the method of teaching all have to be taken into account.
		Of the five children, Kaspar Hauser appeared to be the most successful in learning how to talk, but Kaspar had not been raised in the wild.
		In any case, if feral children had difficulty in learning to talk, it is not surprising that experiments on teaching chimps to acquire language were not entirely successful either.
	bowland-files.lancs.ac.uk /chimp/langac/LECTURE4/4ferconc.htm (231 words)

	Website dedicated to Science, Social Sciences, Psychology, Child Psychology & Feral Children (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Feral Children in Legend, Literature -- and Life - A trivia quiz that tests knowledge of mythology, literature, history, current events and zoology..
		Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence: Feral Children - A brief article citing several famous cases and the controversies about human nature to which they are relevant..
		Studies of Feral Children - Douglas Candland, author of "Feral Children and Clever Animals", presents discussions of four famous cases and draws conclusions about language acquisition..
	www.findtutorials.com /internet/dir/Science/Social_Sciences/Psychology/Child_Psychology/Feral_Children (500 words)

	Latigo Flint, Quickest Quickdraw in the World: The Feral Children
		Several dimwitted local business owners enthusiastically raised their hands but retracted them moments later when they realized their very first duty would be to go up into the wooded canyon to rescue the feral children, whereupon they'd very likely be killed with cinderblocks and eaten.
		Children are evil, I meant FERAL children are evil Feral.
		But, feral children hate being tickled, so this is a rather good plan.
	anewwordforfast.blogspot.com /2005/09/feral-children.html (897 words)

	nthposition online magazine: Born to be wild
		The attribution of hairiness was probably influenced by the legend of the hirsute wodewose (the mediæval wild man of the woods), but a number of feral children are thus described.
		The two major feral cases of the 19th century are Victor of Aveyron, made famous by Francois Truffaut's wonderful film L'Enfant Sauvage, and Kaspar Hauser, the subject of Werner Herzog's haunting film of the same name.
		"While there are no feral children," he wrote, "there are some very rare examples of feral mothers, of human beings who become feral to one of their children." 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.
	www.nthposition.com /borntobewild.php (5350 words)

	Feral Children (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Additional Information: Sites providing information about feral children in general, specific cases, and the psychological and sociological developmental issues that the study of feral children can help us to understand.
		Includes stories of feral children, photos, 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.
	www.canadiancontent.net /dir/Top/Science/Social_Sciences/Psychology/Child_Psychology/Feral_Children (432 words)

	Feral Children - Raised By Animals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Children who have been nurtured in the wild by animals are known as 'Feral Children'.
		The term also refers to children who were raised in a non-human or sub-human environment, and therefore failed to learn how to communicate in a fully human manner.
		There are some who are very sceptical about Feral children, while others, such as Carl Linnaeous who classed them as a new species of human - 'Homo Ferens', regarded them as very real indeed.
	www.unexplained-mysteries.com /articleferalchildren.shtml (276 words)

	FERAL CHILDREN - in aid of STREET CHILDREN, Latin American
		The United Nations has been attributed as estimating the population of street children worldwide at 150 million, with the number rising daily.
		These young people are more appropriately known as community children, as they are the offspring of our communal world.
		Ranging in age from three to eighteen, about 40 percent of those are homeless--as a percentage of world population, unprecendented in the history of civilization.
	bruceperu.org /feralchildren (180 words)

	Feral Children; Children Raised in Isolation
		Another story of feral children, and probably the best known, is that of two girls, Amala and Kamala, who were raised by a she-wolf.
		There are many other stories of feral children in the literature, amongst others the story of a boy who lived in Syria, who ate grass and could leap like an antelope, as well as of a girl, who lived in the forests in Indonesia for six years after she had fallen into the river.
		Besides children being raised in the “natural state” provided by the wild, there are also many cases of children who were raised or kept in extreme isolation.
	www.audiblox2000.com /book7.htm (5032 words)

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