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This law or, more correctly, hypothesis, applied to an individual case explains the so-called feral man.
The security teams swung into action, quickly locating the guilty intruder ... a feral pig.
She was even able to meet his eyes, oblique, apt to glide away, throwing feral gleams of desire.
They exist in a feral state in the mountainous parts of our island, and throughout Europe and Western Asia.
No, this was a feral force, a raging thing which knew no bonds of dimension or of the senses.
It may even explain those of tamed wolves, who may have been only feral dogs, i.e. dogs run wild.
Take the male and female in feral creation, and there is nothing to choose between them in the matter of cruelty.
Through that distant fragment of her mind she sensed that something was watching the doll with feral interest.
Civilization is the slow modification of our old feral qualities, the slow growth of others, which we test, then discard or retain.
Both her trembling head and her strained and feral vomiting moans seemed to be to the rhythms of Chopin's Funeral March.
An old hunter then mounted a tame elephant, went up to the feral one, seized his ear and ordered him to lie down.
It seems that they seldom or never take to the jungle and become feral, although they are not confined in any way.
Only second in importance to the cases of feral men are the investigations which have been made of the results of solitary confinement.
At both of these dates the horses referred to were not in a feral state, but were the companions and servants of man.
With pigeons and fowls, it is not known what variety was first turned out, nor what character the feral birds have assumed.
Tau spoke in honest admiration, his own eyes almost as feral as those of the talking beast as he leaned forward, his fists on his knees.
Here the white strands are more numerous than can readily be found in the lawns and pastures where the plant grows in the feral state.
The cases of feral men, in the absence of contradictory evidence, seem adequate in support of Aristotle's point that social contacts are indispensable for human development.
It has been repeatedly asserted in the most positive manner by various authors, that feral animals and plants invariably return to their primitive specific type.
It had its cunning too, but it was being almost too severely tried since the feral solution of a growl and a spring was forbidden by the problem.
It should be observed that his account does not apply to truly feral pigs; but to pigs long introduced into the country and living in a half- wild state.
Rock Pigeons of the same type, however, are found in many other parts of the Old World and, whether wild or feral, are plainly all from the same original stock.
Now, as then, he had no idea what it was that menaced him; he was simply warned by that sixth sense which belongs to all wild things, and to men in whom there remains something of the feral.