feral

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Under current policy, individual land managers are primarily responsible for controlling feral pig populations, and should work in partnership with local communities.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026

The sweet, slightly feral smell of soil shrugging off ice.

From Salon • Mar. 1, 2026

Among the precursors of the two-part documentary “Wild Boys: Strangers in Town” is Francois Truffaut’s “The Wild Child” of 1970, the dramatized story of Victor of Aveyron, the celebrated feral enfant of late 1700s France.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

For example, non-native feral hogs are now major predators of loggerhead sea turtle eggs along the Georgia coast, USA, while coyotes in eastern North America are expanding onto coastal barrier islands, altering those ecosystems.

From Science Daily • Feb. 8, 2026

His bright blue eyes confronted me, as wide and feral as an animal’s.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros