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ShareA feral child (feral, ie.
"wild" or undomesticated) is a human child who, from a very young age, has lived in isolation from human contact and has remained unaware of human social behavior, and unexposed to language.
A feral child is an extremely rare phenomenon, and there are only just over a hundred known cases.
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