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The case of Oxana Malaya shows us how important both secondary and primary socialisation are. She is proof that we, not only copy what actions we see are done but that we also can relearn habits at older ages.  Oxana Malaya was found and was retaught how to speak, eat, walk and socialise. She is continuing to become more human-like as a result of secondary socialisation through the means of specialist help.

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"The definition of a feral child (or “wild child”) is one who, from a very young age, has lived in isolation from human contact, unaware of human social behaviour and unexposed to language."

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An example of a feral child is Oxana Malaya who was brought up by her dogs from the age of 3-8 years old. her alcoholic parents left her outside when she was 3 and she crawled into the dog kennel where it was warm and the dogs looked after her from then. she knew no different than to copy what the dogs were doing as she was still in the primary socialisation part of her life and until she was found at the age of 8 she had had little human interaction so she didn't even know how to speak.
Oxana is only 1 of 100 feral children known in the world.

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Brought up by dogs.

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The Dog Girl: Oxana Malaya is now in a clinic and unlikely ever to leave as she lacks the skills to survive Cry of an enfant sauvage Elizabeth Grice 12:01AM BST 17 Jul 2006 For five years, Oxana Malaya lived with dogs and survived on raw meat and scraps.

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The most recent case of Feral Children was that of a seven-year-old boy who was rescued by Russian healthcare workers after being discovered living in a two-bedroom apartment with his mother and an abundance of feathered friends. It would appear the small apartment doubled as an aviary with cages filled with dozens of birds. In an interview, one of his rescuers, Social Worker Galina Volskaya, said that his mother treated him like another pet. While he was never physically harmed by his mother, she simply never spoke to him. It was the birds who communicated with the boy

“He just chirps and when realising that he is not understood, starts to wave hands in the way birds winnow wings.” Quote from Social Worker, Galina Volskaya.

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http://listverse.com/2008/03/07/10-modern-cases-of-feral-children/