A feral population can have a significant impact on an ecosystem by predation on vulnerable plants or animals, or by competition with indigenous species. Feral plants and animals constitute a significant share of invasive species, and can be a threat to endangered species.

Feral describes a domestic animal that lives in the wild without human care. The key distinction: feral animals aren’t truly wild species. They descend from animals that were once domesticated, bred and raised by people, but now survive on their own. A wolf is a wild animal.

FERAL definition: existing in a natural state, as animals or plants; not domesticated or cultivated; wild. See examples of feral used in a sentence.

FERAL definition: 1. existing in a wild state, especially describing an animal that was previously kept by people…. Learn more.

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If you describe something or someone as feral, you mean that they seem wild, fierce, and uncontrolled.

A feral cat is an unsocialized outdoor cat who has either never had any physical contact with humans, or human contact has diminished over enough time that she is no longer accustomed to it.

1. a. Having returned to an untamed state from domestication: a pack of feral dogs. b. Existing in a wild or untamed state. 2. Of or suggestive of a wild animal; savage: a feral grin. [From Latin fera, wild animal, from ferus, wild; see ghwer- in Indo-European roots.]