Tuesday, December 23, 2008

feral children

by feral children i mean kids raised by animals. not super sad situations of abuse and confinement.

apparently there are numerous cases of children being raised by animals (usually wolves) and then "saved". subsequent attempts to teach the children language, how to bathe themselves, or simply not to bite everyone have been very difficult.which raises questions about the whole "nature vs nuture" thingy and theories on language aquisition and the such. anywho. im going to let you guyz read up on the concept of feral children with the following links. super interesting if you have the time to read into it. lots of hoaxes though.

thanks everyone. thanks so much. i love you all. love you like a wolf mother loves its feral child.

wikipedia site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_child

insanly awesome website that has houyrs and hours of nets to scroll:
http://www.feralchildren.com/en/index.php

cricial period: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_period

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I think some people have read "The Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling a few to many times.
Good book but I have doubts that there are some real live Mogli's running around the woods.