TJ in San Diego:

Thinking about it, the whole scouting thing can get a bit feral itself at times. Even with the uniforms and adult supervision, I remember all those strange songs about "yucky" things that wouldn't normally be sung, say, in a school classroom.

Also, for me, feral doesn't mean "repatriated to nature". This implies something along the lines of releasing a lion from the zoo into its native habitat back in Africa. And it gets back to its original business fitting into the ecosystem.

"Feral" sounds more dangerous, more marginal.

It's like a domestic cat gone wild in an environment that didn't originally have cats. The cats have a negative impact (eating rare birds), but they're also not really suited to the environment either and have to form marginal colonies and live in the rubbish tips.

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