Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by palmotea 28 days ago
> Similarly, I'm reading "Supernormal Stimuli" now, and there's a whole section on infants raised by various animals (chimps, wolves, chickens, leopards, etc, etc). When they are found and brought back to human societies, basically none of them develop full language and integrate fully.

Infants raised by chickens? Chickens!? That doesn't sound real.

1 comments

Reading it again, the book is referencing this case: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jul/11/fiji.jennyfors...
So not "raised by chickens," but rather abused and isolated in the presence of chickens. That's more plausible.