MetaFilter posts tagged with feral

A Christian shooting party

malibustacey9999 — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 20:16:46 -0800

They love firearms, hunting … and Jesus. In outback NSW (Australia), Jack Marx joins Steve “I Like Guns” Lee and crew for 24 hours in pursuit of feral pigs.

Angry Birds With FLIR

smoothvirus — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:28:31 -0800

"We finally flew our first thermal camera flight yesterday afternoon. About 10 seconds after launch my co pilot looked at the screen and said something like, 'We now have our very own predator drone'" A rice farmer in Louisiana had a real problem, feral pigs were coming out of the woods at night, into the rice fields, tearing up his crops and causing thousands of dollars worth of damage. The only solution is to bring in hunters to shoot the pigs. Hunting feral pigs in waist high rice plants, in the dead of night, is very difficult. You have to be within 10 feet of them to shoot them and it can take hours to stalk them down. So the farmer calls his brother, an Electronic Warfare engineer who flies RC airplanes as a hobby. $5000 worth of electronics, including a $4500 infrared camera, are installed on a $80 model airplane, and the Dehogaflier is born!

"She understands everything. There's so much more in her than she lets us see."

availablelight — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 07:31:20 -0800

Three years later, 'The Girl in the Window' learns to connect. An update on the progress of Danielle Lierow, a so-called "feral child" who was the subject of a Pulitzer Prize-winning special report in the St. Petersburg Times. Unlike another famously neglected young girl, Dani has not been the subject of intense scientific scrutiny, and appears to be living a normal family life as a well-loved special needs child--albeit one in a family in a rural area where resources, and access to services via Medicaid, are sometimes limited. Previously.

Here, kitty, kitty. Or maybe not.

peripathetic — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:00:38 -0800

Cats are apparently the culprits behind several avian extinctions worldwide. So, are cats bad for the environment?

I can't pick which of these to post, so you're getting both

shii — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 06:43:41 -0800

Why Cecco Beppe Does Not Die (Scratch 'n' Sniff Edition), a reenactment of the lost 1916 Futurist film Vita Futurista by the neutered cat responsible for the sleeper hit Valentine for Perfect Strangers (DLYT)

Green Children of Woolpit

Catseye — Sun, 16 May 2010 17:18:36 -0800

The 12th-century English chronicler Ralph of Coggeshall relates a strange story: two lost and distressed children appeared in a local village, speaking a language no-one could understand, and, most strikingly, with strangely green-coloured skin. The story of Woolpit's green children has continued to intrigue for centuries. Is it a fairy story in the literal sense, since the children's description of their otherworldly home (as described by another chronicler, William of Newburgh) seems to have much in common with folklore descriptions of a fairy otherworld? Or were these real feral children, perhaps orphaned Flemish immigrants? Whoever they were, they haven't been forgotten: today, they're remembered in a children's book, a play, and, of course, the Woolpit village sign.

Trading goods along social networks since 2003

furtive — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:49:08 -0800

Kate Rich has run the Feral Trade grocery business trading goods along social networks since 2003. Feral Trade forges new, 'wild' trade routes between art, business and social interaction. Goods hitchhike on other sources of movement, harnessing the surplus freight potential of social and cultural travel to haul grocery items intercity, often using other artists and curators as mules. An online courier database provides a live, public view of all movements in the network.

pye dogs in India

nickyskye — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:10:52 -0800

Are you a Pariah Dog fan? A blog about Indian stray and street dogs. This space belongs to the Indian Pariah Dog Club, a Mumbai-based canine club whose membership is restricted to pariah dogs and mix-breeds only. The stray dog issue. Vets Beyond Borders volunteers catching street dogs during their street dog desexing and rabies vaccination program. In Ladakh. Pariah pr0n. Clean and Unclean: The Dog in Asia

Chasing Wild Horses: "Beauty has a way of teaching us what matters in life."

loiseau — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:19:48 -0800

Located in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, tiny Sable Island has a population of about 15 humans, assorted marine birds and seals, and more than 300 wild horses. The island is a bastion of purity, wildness and beauty unmatched in the world. Sable Island and its horses are protected from human habitation and development by strict laws. The only people allowed to go there are government-approved wildlife and Coast Guard workers, people who are shipwrecked or in distress at sea, and those with individual approval from the provincial government. There is no tourism there. Only a small number of humans will ever experience Sable in their lifetime. In 2007, fashion photographer Robert Dutesco made his second journey to the island, which resulted in this stunningly beautiful and haunting set of photographs of feral horses, a small peek into life on Sable Island as it exists every day, untouched by the often-destructive hand of humanity. If you have the opportunity, do make sure you see the gorgeous documentary Chasing Wild Horses, which documents Dutesco's time on the island and the emotional journey he takes there with these magical horses as his subjects and temporary companions. It aired on Bravo in Canada this weekend and hopefully will come to a channel or Internet near you.

Unpopular premier slams popular press

Artw — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:19:40 -0800

The UK media is like a "Feral Beast", and is undermining Britain, says Tony Blair. Simon Kelner, editor of The Independent, responds. Some reasons why Blair might not be too keen on the press.

Girls (and Boys) Gone Wild!

Kibbutz — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 21:32:36 -0800

Romulus and Remus are the most famous, and Rochom P'ngieng is the most recent addition to the roster of children believed to be raised by animals (via, and previously).

Arrrrroooooooooo!

warbaby — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 19:03:08 -0800

Feral Robotic Dogs OUT THERE, in happy family homes, in the offices of corporate executives, in toy stores through out the globe, is an army of robotic dogs. These semi-autonomous robotic creatures, though currently programmed to perform inane or entertaining tasks: begging for plastic bones; barking to the tune of national anthems; walking in circles; are actually fully motile and AWAITING FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS.

Feral Children

jasenlee — Sun, 14 Dec 2003 22:21:11 -0800

Feral Children? Some of this has to be fiction... but even so, it still makes for interesting reading. Some links to media from the BBC and other sources.

Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky and the neuronaut's guide to the science of consciousness

y2karl — Fri, 11 Jul 2003 07:57:32 -0800

We are because of others. We are born into this world with minds as naked as our bodies and we have to rely on others to feed, clothe us, and to teach us to think of ourselves as selves. The key is language -- grammatical speech and human culture build upon the brain's biological capacities to create a mind that is something different again than that with which we are born. We are conscious because we can speak to others and ourselves, because we can speak of ourselves to others and ourselves. Language gives us as individuals, memory, and as groups, culture, the social memory. Or so thought Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky, among others. Welcome to the the neuronaut's guide to the science of consciousness.

When A Child Goes Wild

jonp72 — Mon, 20 Jan 2003 15:46:27 -0800

Feral children have fascinated linguists, psychologists, anthropologists, and filmmakers for over a century. Read about the Wild Boy of Aveyron, Kamala and Amala (raised by wolves), and Genie (chained and locked in a closet until she was 13) and you'll discover how fragile humanity can be when "nature" overruns "nurture."

"Dog Child" Rescued

jennak — Mon, 18 Jun 2001 14:13:21 -0800

"Dog Child" Rescued An 11-year-old Chilean boy who has been living in the wild with a pack of dogs was rescued and taken to a hospital. He survived by drinking the milk of a female dog and eating scraps of food. (Even more amazing is the tale of the boy who was raised by monkeys and rescued in 1991...)