feral
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Instead, they come from a naturally mixed population in Southern California, often originating from feral colonies living in trees.
From Science Daily • Apr. 20, 2026
Cats, domestic and feral, together take another billion.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026
"Here on Rathlin in 2017, a feral ferret reached one of our puffin colonies and killed 27 puffins in a two-day period," she said.
From BBC • Mar. 22, 2026
His first presidential campaign in 2016 was marked by a feral but highly developed gut instinct for what the public wanted, or at least what it thought it wanted.
From Salon • Mar. 14, 2026
There was a gray house on the corner whose owners were indifferent to their dog’s feral displays, and a line of cottages where the wives stared out of the windows with flinty expressions.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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