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man raised by chickens...

this is one of those...

WTF?!? moments.
[url]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5403445/[/url]

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  • An ex-SquidAn ex-Squid Elite Ranger
    His grandfather must've been one mean S.O.B....:eek:
  • JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
    Just don't tell him I had his cousins over for dinner the other night...

    :D :p

    That might be a traumatic shock...
  • Wonder if he becomes a vegetarian...
  • MessiahMessiah Failed Experiment
    That must be a fake. Most of those 'raised by a ...' are.
  • [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Messiah [/i]
    [B]That must be a fake. Most of those 'raised by a ...' are. [/B][/QUOTE]Yeah, ever since Tarzan's biography was published, people've been trying to copy his story.
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Messiah [/i]
    [B]That must be a fake. Most of those 'raised by a ...' are. [/B][/QUOTE]

    This one isn't. The story broke here quite a while ago, and I've seen nothing to suggest it's a fake. Sure, there might be a bit of exageration in the media, but I don't think it's completely untrue.
  • David of MacDavid of Mac Elite Ranger Ca
    It could be something of a boon for animal psychologists. Quite a few nonhuman animals have rudimentary languages, and if this guy actually learned any meaning behind the various walks and squawks of the chickens (as a child learns the meanings of those strange noises the Big People make), he could give some very interesting information on chickens.

    Yes, I'm serious, and no, I am not a nut. Granted, I would've preferred if he had been raised by a more interesting animal, but, hey, chickens are carbon-based life-forms, too. ;)
  • [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by David of Mac [/i]
    [B]It could be something of a boon for animal psychologists. Quite a few nonhuman animals have rudimentary languages, and if this guy actually learned any meaning behind the various walks and squawks of the chickens (as a child learns the meanings of those strange noises the Big People make), he could give some very interesting information on chickens.

    Yes, I'm serious, and no, I am not a nut. Granted, I would've preferred if he had been raised by a more interesting animal, but, hey, chickens are carbon-based life-forms, too. ;) [/B][/QUOTE]It'd be easier to raise a chicken among Humans, if you asked me. ;)
  • MessiahMessiah Failed Experiment
    This is the part (Italized) that made me sceptic.

    [quote]"He had imitated or imprinted with the chicken," said Elizabeth Clayton who is rehabilitating the man. "He was perching, he was picking at his food, he was hopping around like a chicken. [I]He'd keep his hands in a chicken-like fashion[/i], and he'd make a noise which was like the calling of a chicken -- which he still has." [/quote]
  • An ex-SquidAn ex-Squid Elite Ranger
    Imprinting happens at birth (or hatching), not afterwards; she shouldn't have even mentioned it at all.
  • CurZCurZ Resident Hippy
    I hope for his sake that noone has any recordings. That'd be seriously embarrassing once he's been around humans long enough :D
  • JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
    You must become one with the chicken...

    ahhhm...

    :p
  • MessiahMessiah Failed Experiment
    Thankfully noone ate him.
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