On 18 Mar 2005 18:41:49 -0800, the inscrutable jim rozen
spake:

In article .net, Lew
Hartswick says...

Oddly though the birds are just as feral as the cats.

No Jim. Feral means a domestic animal gone wild, the birds are
naturally wild ie. never were domesticated.

It's a non-biological distinction. Sure the cat is felix
domesticus but probably most of the feral cats in question
were born in the wild and never were pets.

A biologist would not make the distinction. They're both
wild animals.

Cats and biologists?


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