Feral Child Essay

Stories about children who were adopted and raised by wolves, monkeys, and bears appear from time to time. These reports are causing dismay or amaze readers of journalistic chronicles. In the middle ages, these "little savages" were seen as a symbol of chaos, heresy, insanity, and curse of God. These are those children, who have never seen humans; therefore, their behavior and attitude is very distant from normal human children. It is so amazing that different species are able to live so closer to other species with no fear or hesitation. Feral children are those children, who lived in isolation; therefore, they are able to live with young ones of other species such as bear, wolf or monkey. Due to this reason they are unable to imitate the behaviors of humans (Adler, 2013).

These cases of children found living among animals are, first of all, biological exceptions; the result of an unusual destination; an

The wild children are children who have grown up with minimal human contact, or even none. They may have been taken care by animals or somehow have survived all alone in wilderness. Normally, they are lost, stolen or abandoned in childhood and then, years later, discovered, captured and collected by the humans . The cases that are known for feral children are of great scientific interest. They constitute a kind of degree zero of human development and it teaches us what we would have been without the support of humans, abruptly it shows the fragility of our animalism, and reveals the precarious root of our human life. In terms of language, the wild children only know the mime and the sounds made by the animals with which they were living, especially those of their host families (Melson & Fine(2006). Their ability to learn a language on their return to human society is