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- Feral Children - Wikipedia - 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.
- Neuroscience for Kids: Feral Children - A lesson about feral children written for children, including a list of films about real and fictional cases.
- 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.
- Wild Things: Fortean Times Article - A general article featuring a large number of cases of feral children, with bibliography.
- Feral Children in Legend, Literature -- and Life - A trivia quiz that tests knowledge of mythology, literature, history, current events and zoology.
- Savage Girls and Wild Boys: A History of Feral Children - An introduction to the subject, taken and edited from the book of the same title by Michael Newton.
- BBC - H2G2 - Feral Children - An introductory article with brief overviews of four famous cases.
- FeralChildren.com - Stories of feral children, photos, book extracts and reviews, academic articles and essays, and lists of books and other resources.
- 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.
- Werewolves - Describes theories to explain werewolf folklore, including medical case histories and feral children.
Wikipedia Articles
- Feral children in mythology and fiction - Feral children (that is, human children raised by non-human animals) in mythology and fiction are often depicted as having superior strength, intelligence and morals to "normal" humans, the implication being that because of their upbringing they represent humanity in a pure and uncorrupted state.
- Feral child - A feral child (feral, - wild or undomesticated) is a human child who has lived isolated from human contact from a very young age, and has no (or little) experience of human care, loving or social behavior, and, crucially, of human language. Feral children were confined by humans (often parents), brought up ...
- Wolf-children - A Wolf Child is a feral child, a human child who has been raised and brought up, often from a baby-age who can easily be carried by wolves, away from human centres, normally in forests or mountains. By far the most rigorously documented case if that of Amala and Kamala, the wolf-girls ...
- Amala and Kamala - "Amala" (died September 21 1921) and "Kamala" (died November 14 1929) are the names of two feral children, wolf-girls, who were nurtured and raised by a wolf family. They were found October 9 1920 in the district of Midnapore, west of Calcutta in India by The Reverend and rector of the local orphanage Joseph Amrito Lal Singh.
- The Music of Dolphins - The Music of Dolphins, by Karen Hesse, is a children's book that follows the story of Mila (translated as Spanish for "miracle", although this is inaccurate), a feral child raised by a pod of dolphins around the Florida Keys and Caribbean.