Talk:Oxana Malaya

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How can anyone believe she has super senses?

Google searches for oxana feral and oxana raised dogs do not seem to turn up anything relevant. Urban legend, maybe? I'm blanking until someone can give some evidence of a feral child named Oxana... -- Wapcaplet 17:28 26 May 2003 (UTC)

Nor the other spelling "Oksana". - Montréalais

Phil Torr says http://www.feralchildren.com/en/sitemap.php

and this page notes her as neglected child, not ferel

I just saw her on Discovery.

Indeed, Oxana Malaya was featured on the Optomen special 'Wild Child - The Story of Feral Children'. Little is known of what has come of Oxana since the program was filmed back in 2003. (now '2006')

I have also seen her name spelled 'Oksana' so it is a common mistake.

If she is really Ukrainian her name will probably be Оксана Малая, which comes up with a number of Google hits listing her as a "dog-girl". There is no letter "X" in Slavic languages, so spelling it "Oks" would just be an alternative transliteration. --Fastfission 03:26, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Real Name? 2 "BBC Channel 4" 3 "Channel 9, Australia - 60 Minutes Report" 4 "reference" tag

[edit] Real Name?

Is "Malaya" the family name of her parents? It does not look like a Ukrainian or Russian family name at all, because in fact it is a common Russian (possibly Ukrainian too) adjective meaning "small" or "little". Hi There 12:10, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Quite possibly a nickname. there is more recent info has been featured on Fark: http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/the-girl-who-ran-with-the-pack/2006/07/18/1153166383022.html as well as a picture. I'll attempt at adding it to the main page, duck+cover. as well as here: http://www.peoples.ru/family/children/malaya/ very detailed, except in russian.

There is a conflict with her actually being considered ferel, neglected child seems to be more acurate. http://www.feralchildren.com/en/showchild.php?ch=oxana

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Wow, this seems fake. Here's a "documentary" on her by some rather gullible sounding filmmakers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsfvSWljqpc

She's running around on her hands and knees and barking -- except when she's being interviewed on camera. (Her knees don't look very calloused, by the way.) I think she may have been a runaway, and may have hung out with dogs to a certain extent, but I think that she and her psychiatric "minders" are exagerating and milking her story for fame and fortune.

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I saw a little bit on her on Galileo Mysteries (run in Germany on Pro7, 25.2.2007). They talked to her and she said that she had never been a dog-girl. She seemed coherent enough, though they did mention alcoholic parents and a difficult upbringing.

[edit] "BBC Channel 4"

Unless there was some kind of combined effort between TV companies this makes no sense; there is no such thing as "BBC Channel 4". Barring a collaboration, it should simply read "Channel 4". As the BBC have launched a "BBC 4" there is potential for confusion here (aside from simply being wrong).

However, just using "Channel 4" is confusing to international readers who don't know anything about British television networks. How about the phrase "British Channel 4" or "Channel 4 in the U.K."?

[edit] "Channel 9, Australia - 60 Minutes Report"

60 Minutes Australia just did a report on Oxana in relation to 'nature vs nurture' and used other 'feral kids' as examples for how their development can go horribly wrong without interaction with family.

[edit] "reference" tag

Why was this article adorned with a reference tag when there are several external links to prove everything? Why don't people take the time to read them? The overuse of all kind of tags in the English Wikipedia is really annoying. --Maxl 14:53, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

None of the sources seem to mention how she obtained a so-called acuse sense of hearing, smell, etc., and something as incredible as that must be referenced in-line. I have restored the template. 222.158.162.143 07:30, 27 March 2007 (UTC)