The miners' activities threatened to drive the local tribe to extinction; Monbiot hated what he saw (Joseph Conrad was in that jungle with him), and yet he was drawn to their feral, lawless behaviour, where "conflicts were resolved not through legal instruments or on the sofas of television studios, but by shoot-outs in the forest".
I'm not talking about wild parties, a front driveway like a breaker's yard or mad, feral-woman behaviour on my part.
If we encourage and reward feral and bestial behaviour at the top, why should we be surprised when evidence of feral and bestial behaviour starts to mount up at the bottom of the heap as well?
Schools have difficulty managing "feral" children, their behaviour undisciplined by a parental presence at home.
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band's Loving Cup becomes a two-chord punk stomp, but best of all is Call the Police, which beefs up Stephanie McDee's regional zydeco hit, until it's a bruising, feral celebration of appalling behaviour – "You gotta call the po-leese, call the po-leese/ We gonna get our drinks on".
It is generally less common in areas where the dingo is more prevalent, however it has, primarily through its burrowing behaviour, achieved niche differentiation with both the feral dog and the feral cat.
Effects of feral cats on the evolution of anti-predator behaviours in island reptiles: insights from an ancient introduction.
We examined impacts of feral cats on the abundance and anti-predator behaviours of Aegean wall lizards in the Cyclades (Greece), where cats were introduced thousands of years ago.
Through sex and stimulants and destructive behaviour amid all the idleness and uncertainty, even these trapped souls experience moments of furious, feral vitality that become alien to us in later life.
