The Feral Irishman Uncovered: Secrets Most Don’t See - Away State Journal
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: 1. existing in a wild state, especially describing an animal that was previously kept by people…. Learn more.
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.]
If you describe something or someone as feral, you mean that they seem wild, fierce, and uncontrolled.
FERAL definition: existing in a natural state, as animals or plants; not domesticated or cultivated; wild. See examples of feral used in a sentence.
We are an all-volunteer, no-kill organization dedicated to caring for hundreds of homeless cats in South Florida. For the past 12 years, we have been caring for hundreds of feral cats living on the streets. We feed them daily, we TNR (trap, neuter, and return) to keep them from reproducing.
