feral
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Cats, domestic and feral, together take another billion.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026
Under current policy, individual land managers are primarily responsible for controlling feral pig populations, and should work in partnership with local communities.
From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026
The sweet, slightly feral smell of soil shrugging off ice.
From Salon • Mar. 1, 2026
For example, non-native feral hogs are now major predators of loggerhead sea turtle eggs along the Georgia coast, USA, while coyotes in eastern North America are expanding onto coastal barrier islands, altering those ecosystems.
From Science Daily • Feb. 8, 2026
Wildlife was limited to buzzards, raccoons the size of huskies, domestic pets left to run feral, and hordes of cockroaches that had regained the ability to fly like their southern cousins.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
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