Philosophers and scientists were interested in the concept of such children, and began to question if these children were part of a different species from the human family. In those tales, the depiction of feral children included hunting for food, running on all fours instead of two, and not knowing language. Prior to the 1600s, feral and wild children stories were usually limited to myths and legends. Yet other scientific studies of feral children exist, such as the case of Genie. Child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim states that Amala and Kamala were born mentally and physically disabled. French surgeon Serge Aroles, however, has persuasively argued that the case was a fraud, perpetrated by Singh in order to raise money for his orphanage. Singh in 1926 as having been "raised by wolves" in a forest in India. One of the best-documented cases has supposedly been that of sisters Amala and Kamala, described by Reverend J. There is little scientific knowledge about feral children. The impaired ability to learn a natural language after having been isolated for so many years is often attributed to the existence of a critical period for language learning, and taken as evidence in favor of the critical period hypothesis.
They often seem mentally impaired and have almost insurmountable trouble learning a human language. For example, they may be unable to learn to use a toilet, have trouble learning to walk upright after walking on fours all their lives, or display a complete lack of interest in the human activity around them. 3 Journalistic accounts of children raised by animalsįeral children lack the basic social skills that are normally learned in the process of enculturation.
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