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    This document discusses three cases of feral children: 1. Isabel, a girl found in Portugal at age 10 who was left in a chicken coop and exhibited chicken-like behaviors such as drumming her feet. 2. Kamala and Amala, two girls discovered living with wolves in India who acted wolflike by howling and walking on all fours. 3. Oxana Malaya, a girl from Ukraine who was allegedly kept in a dog kennel and learned to bark and crawl, though the true details of her upbringing are uncertain. The document also describes Dr. John Money's controversial experiment raising Bruce Reimer as a girl after a

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    This document discusses three cases of feral children: 1. Isabel, a girl found in Portugal at age 10 who was left in a chicken coop and exhibited chicken-like behaviors such as drumming her feet. 2. Kamala and Amala, two girls discovered living with wolves in India who acted wolflike by howling and walking on all fours. 3. Oxana Malaya, a girl from Ukraine who was allegedly kept in a dog kennel and learned to bark and crawl, though the true details of her upbringing are uncertain. The document also describes Dr. John Money's controversial experiment raising Bruce Reimer as a girl after a

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    This document discusses three cases of feral children: 1. Isabel, a girl found in Portugal at age 10 who was left in a chicken coop and exhibited chicken-like behaviors such as drumming her feet. 2. Kamala and Amala, two girls discovered living with wolves in India who acted wolflike by howling and walking on all fours. 3. Oxana Malaya, a girl from Ukraine who was allegedly kept in a dog kennel and learned to bark and crawl, though the true details of her upbringing are uncertain. The document also describes Dr. John Money's controversial experiment raising Bruce Reimer as a girl after a

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    Feral children

    Isabel
     Isabel the ‘chicken girl ‘Isabel was found when she was ten years old in
    Portugal. It seemed that since she was born, she had been left in the chicken
    coop with the hens by her mother, who worked in the fields. Isabel could not
    speak, was not toilet trained, and expressed emotion by beating her arms and
    drumming her feet – probably imitating the behaviour of the hens. She was
    physically malformed, probably due to malnutrition.

    Kamala & Amala – wolf children


     These two girls were discovered living with wolves in India. It was assumed
    that they must have been lost in the jungle or even snatched by the wolves as
    babies. There was no evidence they were related – one was around eight
    years old and one was only eighteen months old. Their behaviour was seen
    to be ‘wolflike’ – they howled, walked on all fours and ate directly from a
    bowl with their mouths, rather than using their hands.
    Oxana Malaya
     This story was widely reported some years ago, but later evidence casts
    doubt on its credibility. The original story was that Oxana had been left in
    the kennel with the family dogs since she was very young. Footage of her in
    a children’s home in the Ukraine was released, and she was barking and
    running on all fours. Her parents were blamed for abuse. However, later
    evidence suggests that actually some of this behaviour may have been
    learned in the children’s home itself, where care was allegedly very poor. It
    is also alleged that the dog-like behaviour seen had already been ‘unlearned’
    by the time the famous footage was shot, and that Oxana was asked to put it
    on for the cameras. Clearly some time in Oxana’s childhood was spent with
    dogs, but the true sequence of events may never be known. Oxana can now
    walk and talk normally.

    C. Experiments
     Bruce and Brian Reimer were twin boys born in Canada. When he was
    seven months old, Bruce’s penis was destroyed in a circumcision operation.
    Over a year later, his parents saw psychologist Dr John Money on television
    and contacted him for help. Dr Money argued that nurture is more important
    than nature, and suggested that Bruce could be raised as a girl. He used this
    as an experiment to test his belief that gender identity is a product of nurture
    rather than nature. The Reimers changed Bruce’s name to Brenda and
    brought her up to be feminine, wearing dresses and playing with dolls. For a
    time, Money’s experiment seemed to have worked, and he used this case to
    argue that nurture was more important than nature. However, Brenda was so
    unhappy at around the age of 13 that she attempted suicide. The Reimers
    told her the truth, and Brenda decided to live again as a male and called
    himself David. For a time, David was much happier and got married. He
    claimed in interviews that he had always known something was not right.
    Tragically, the experience took its toll and David eventually took his own
    life.

    Characteristics of feral and isolated:


    1. Difficulty in speaking
    2. Hard to adapt to normal food
    3. Do not like wearing conventional clothing
    4. Prefer walking on all fours
    5. Uninterested in people
    6. May not know how to use the toilet

    Feral children are those who are raised with non to less socialization and that will
    result into human not actually acting like humans as they were never actually
    raised by them. Kids who are raised euther by wolfs they tend to act like wolfs.
    They howled like wolfs and walked on all fours, they didn’t know how to eat from
    a bowl. This is not just the case with

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