Feral Human Children

LuxuryItem · January 28, 2007, 5:32pm

Incredible story!

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Wild children

· Andrei Tolstyk, Siberia, abandoned by his parents as a baby. When discovered by social workers in 2004, aged seven, he walked on all fours and bit people; they believe he was raised by the family’s dog.

· Traian Caldarar, seven, Romania, found living on the streets in 2002, three years after fleeing his mother’s violent partner. Still the size of a three-year-old and with no speech, it is thought he had survived with help from stray dogs.

· John Ssebunya was found in the forest in Uganda, aged six, in 1989. He had fled a violent father, and for two years a group of African Grey monkeys accepted him as a peripheral member of their group.

· Ramu, found in Lucknow, India, in 1954, aged seven. His mother said he had been snatched by a wolf as a baby. He lapped milk, chewed bones and had an affinity with wolves in the zoo. Died in 1968.

More information: www.feralchildren.com

Man_with_a_Plan · January 29, 2007, 3:26pm

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Khumar · January 29, 2007, 3:32pm

Re: Feral Human Children

In all of this what really amazes me is the ability of the human to adapt to the conditions they are living in. But in the end, it is as if we are programmed to be "human beings", in that, while the assimilation to the human life might be a little bit harder, the longer you live in the wild, they do assimilate. I don't think there has been a case so far where the person has returned to the wild.

though certainly makes you think if Mowgli and Tarzan were actual possibilities :D