An example of mowgli children in real life. Shocking real stories about feral children raised among animals

). At an exhibition in London, she presented a series of staged photographs that tell real stories about children growing up under very unusual circumstances.

Fullerton-Batten decided to look for data on children who grew up with animals after reading the book "The Girl Without a Name."

The stories she collected are about those who got lost in the forest or were raised by animals under other circumstances. Typically, such cases were recorded on at least four out of five continents.

Lobo Wolf Girl, Mexico, 1845-1852

In 1845, people noticed a girl crawling on all fours with a pack of wolves attacking a herd of goats. A year later, she was spotted in the same company: everyone ate raw goat meat together.

Once the girl was captured, but she managed to escape. In 1852, she was once again spotted with the wolf cubs, but this time, too, she managed to escape. Since then, no one has seen her again.

Oksana Malaya, Ukraine, 1991

Oksana was found in a kennel in 1991. She was at that time 8 years old, 6 of them she lived with the dogs. Her parents were alcoholics, and one night they accidentally left the girl on the street. To keep warm, the baby climbed into the kennel on the farm, curled up in a ball, and the dogs had already saved her from the cold.

So the girl began to live with them. When people found out about this story, Oksana already looked more like a dog than a person. She ran on all fours, bared her teeth, breathed, stuck out her tongue, growled. Due to the lack of communication with people by the age of 8, she learned only two words: "Yes" and "No".

Intensive therapy helped Oksana regain her social and verbal skills, but only at the level of a five-year-old. Now the girl is 30 years old, she lives in a special clinic in Odessa and takes care of farm animals.

Shamdeo, India, 1972

Shamdeo, a 4-year-old boy, was discovered in the woods in 1972 while playing with wolf cubs. His skin was very dark — his teeth were pointed and his nails were long. There were huge calluses on the child's palms, elbows and knees. He loved to hunt chickens, ate land, and had an increased appetite for raw blood.

The child was taken from the forest by social services. He was never weaned from his love of raw meat. He was not taught to speak either, but he began to understand sign language. In 1978 he was admitted to Mother Teresa's home for the beggars. He died in February 1985.

"Rights" (Boy-Bird), Russia, 2008

Prava, a 7-year-old boy, was found in the tiny two-room house he shared with his 31-year-old mother. The boy lived in a room with dozens of decorative birds - along with all the cages, food and droppings.

His mother treated the baby like one of her pets. She did not physically beat him, but she periodically left him without food and never spoke to him. Therefore, he could only communicate with birds. The boy could not speak - only twitter. He also waved his arms like a bird - his wings.

The mother's right was taken away and sent to the Psychological Aid Center. Doctors are still trying to rehabilitate him.

Marina Chapman, Columbia, 1959

Marina was kidnapped in 1954. Initially, she lived in one of the villages of South America lost among the jungle, but her captor simply left her in the jungle. The baby of the Capuchin monkey came out.

The hunters found the child only five years later. The child ate only berries, roots and bananas, slept in the hollows of trees and walked on all fours.

Once she got poisoned with something. One elderly monkey took her to a puddle of water and made her drink from it. The girl vomited - and her body began to recover.

She was friends with young monkeys, knew how to climb trees and was well versed in the fruits of local plants: which of them can be eaten and which are not.

By the time the hunters found her, Marina had completely forgotten how to speak. Those who found her took advantage of this: the child was sent to a brothel. There she lived as a street girl, and later she was enslaved by a mafia family. And only many years later, one of the neighbors saved her and took her to Bogota. There they lived with the savior's own son.

When Marina became an adult, she worked as a nanny. In 1977, their family moved to the UK, where they still live. Marina got married and had children. Her youngest daughter, Vanessa James, also wrote a book about her mother's wild experiences, The Girl Without a Name.

Madina, Russia, 2013

Madina has lived with dogs since birth. For the first three years of her life, she played with them, shared food with them. They warmed her with their bodies in winter. Social workers found the girl in 2013. She was naked, walked on all fours and growled like a dog.

Madina's father left the family shortly after her birth. Her mother, a 23-year-old girl, drank herself to death. She did not care for the child at all, and once made a decision simply. She moved into the house of one of the rural alcoholics. She sat at the table with drinking companions while her daughter gnawed bones on the floor with the dogs.

Once Madina ran away to the playground, but was unable to play with other children: she could not speak. So the dogs became her only friends.

The doctors said that Madina was mentally and physically an absolutely healthy person, despite all the tests that she had passed. There is a good chance that one day she will return to normal. Despite the fact that she learned to speak too late.

Janie, USA, 1970

Janie's father somehow decided that his daughter was "retarded," and therefore began to hold her on the toilet seat in a small room at home. She spent over 10 years in this solitary confinement. I even slept in a chair.

She was 13 years old when a social worker accidentally noticed her condition in 1970. Like, the child did not know how to go to the toilet and moved "somehow strange: sideways and like a rabbit." The teenage girl did not know how to talk or express any sounds at all.

She was taken away from her parents, and since then she has become the object of scientific research. Gradually, she learned a few words, but never learned to write. But he reads simple texts and already somehow knows how to interact with other people.

In 1974, funding for Janie's treatment program was stopped and she was placed in a private facility for mentally retarded adults.

Leopard boy, India, 1912

This boy was two years old when a female leopard stole him from the courtyard of a village house and took him into care in 1912. Three years later, a hunter killed this animal and found three of its cubs: two small leopards and a five-year-old child. The child was returned to his family in a small village in India.

At first, the boy could only sit on all fours, but he ran faster than any other adult. His knees were covered with huge, hard calluses, and his fingers were bent in an upright position at right angles to the palm. They were covered with tough, horny skin.

The boy bit, fought with everyone, and once caught and ate a raw chicken. He could not speak - only moan and growl.

Later he was taught speech and upright posture. Unfortunately, he soon became blind from cataracts. However, this is not due to his experience of living in the jungle, but to heredity.

Sujit Kumar, Chicken Boy, Fiji, 1978

The authorities recognized Sujit as a mentally retarded child. After that, his parents locked him in a chicken coop. Soon, his mother committed suicide, and his father was killed. The grandfather took responsibility for the baby, but he thought that he would be better off in the chicken coop.

When Sujit was eight years old, he ran out onto the road, where he was noticed. The boy clucked and clapped his hands like a chicken. He did not eat the food brought to him, but pecked it, clicking his tongue. On the chair he sat "with his feet", and his fingers were turned inward.

Soon after being discovered, he was sent to a nursing home as a worker. But there he was distinguished by aggressive behavior, so he had to be tied with sheets to the bed for a long time. Now over 30 years old, he lives with Elizabeth Clayton, the woman who saved him and gave him a house.

Kamala and Amala, India, 1920

Kamala, 8, and Amala, 12, were found in a wolf den in 1920. This is one of the most famous cases of the discovery of "Mowgli children".

A certain Joseph Singh found them when he saw two children emerge from the cave of wolves. It was disgusting to look at them: they ran on all fours and did not behave at all like people. Soon Singh did everything to take the girls away from the wolves together with the police.

On the first nights, the girls slept curled up together, growled, tore off their clothes, ate nothing but raw meat, and howled. Physically, they were also not like everyone else: the tendons and joints in the arms and legs were shortened and deformed. The girls showed no interest in interacting with people. But their hearing, sight and smell were exceptionally developed.

Amala died the following year after returning to the people. Kamala did learn to walk upright and pronounce a few words, but died in 1929 of kidney failure at the age of 17.

Ivan Mishukov, Russia, 1998

Ivan escaped from a family of alcoholics when he was 4 years old. At first he lived on the streets and begged for alms. And then he "made friends" with a pack of dogs. He began to feed them. They began to trust him. Ivan became something like the leader of the pack.

For two years he lived with them in abandoned buildings. Then he was caught and placed in an orphanage. The boy knew how to talk: he had to beg for alms. That is why he is now living a normal life.

Marie Angelica Memmy Le Blanc (Champagne Girl), France, 1731

This story received a lot of publicity in the 18th century. Surprisingly, it is well documented.

For 10 years, it is not clear how the girl who found herself in the forest has passed thousands of kilometers through the forests of France. She ate birds, frogs, fish, leaves, branches and tree roots. She knew how to fight with wild animals, including wolves. When she was 19 years old, she was captured by "civilized" people. The girl was black with mud, overgrown, with sharp claws. She knelt down to drink water and constantly looked around in search of danger.

She did not know how to speak, communicated only with squeals and puffs. But, it seems, found amazing contact with rabbits and birds. For many, many years, she ate only raw food, but she could not. She could climb trees like a monkey.

In 1737, the Queen of Poland, mother of the French queen, took Memmi to her palace. Together with her, she went out to hunt for rabbits: the girl ran after them as deftly as the dogs.

But Memmi was able to recover, in 10 years she learned to read, write and speak fluent French. In 1747 she became a nun, but not for long. Her patron died under mysterious circumstances.

Soon, however, Memmi found herself a new "owner" - Mrs. Ecke. She also posted a photograph of the woman. Memmi lived in Paris in a well-to-do family and died in 1775. She was 63.

John Ssebunya, Monkey Boy, Uganda, 1991

John ran away from home in 1988 when he was three years old. This happened after his father killed his mother in front of him. The boy fled into the jungle and began to live with the monkeys.

In 1991 he was found and captured. At that time he was about six years old. By that time, his entire body was covered with hair. The boy ate only roots, nuts, sweet potatoes and cassava. Huge worms lived in its intestines - half a meter long.

But everything turned out well: the child was taught to speak and walk. And his beautiful singing voice made him the star of the stage. Together with other African children, he toured the world with the Pearl of Africa children's choir.

Victor (Wild Boy Aveyron), France, 1797

This is also a case from history, which is very well documented. A wild child was seen at the end of the 18th century in the forests of Saint Cernin-sur-Rance in the South of France. On January 8, 1800, he was caught.

He was 12 years old, his body was covered with scars, and the boy was unable to speak. Later it turned out that he spent 7 years in the wild. Biology professors began to investigate it. It turned out that the boy can feel comfortable completely naked in the cold knee-deep in snow. It seemed that the low temperature did not give him any discomfort at all!

People tried to teach him to behave "normally", but there was no progress. The boy did not know how to speak until the end of his life. He was sent to a special scientific institute in Paris, where he was examined until his death. He died at the age of 40.

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The purpose of this work- define what constitutes human nature ? Find out whether a person is endowed with the characteristics of a person from birth, or acquires them as a result of communication with his own kind?

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MUNICIPAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

"BASIC SCHOOL №78"

Zavodskoy district of the city of Saratov

Research

CHILDREN "MOWGLI"

Nikishina Julia,

Shkunova Anna,

Elena Vanzina

pupils of 8 "B" class

Supervisor:

Emelyanova Valentina Nikolaevna,

biology teacher - chemistry

MOU "School No. 78",

the highest qualification category

Saratov

year 2013

1. Introduction _________________________________________ 3

2. Who are they - "Mowgli's children"? __________________________ 4

3. "Children of Mowgli" among us ____________________________ 5

4. Signs of "Mowgli's syndrome" _______________________ 7

5. Is the process of human recovery possible? _________ 8

6. Conclusion _______________________________________ 11

7. List of used literature _____________________ 12

8. Appendices ____________________________________ 13

Introduction:

Fear stared at me from the TV screen. A fifteen-year-old girl, jumping on all fours, threw herself at the camera with frantic barking. Then she stopped, breathed heavily, sticking her tongue out like a dog, and continued to rush through the green meadow. This girl was diagnosed with the rarest diagnosis in the world - Mowgli's syndrome.

We all read "Mowgli" in childhood, and hundreds of boys played "Tarzan". In Kipling's tale of Mowgli's human cub, a child raised by animals learned from them kindness, decency and, one might say, humanity.(slide number 2)

I have a question: Can this happen in life? Can this girl, who grew up in a doghouse, abandoned by her own parents, acquire the same qualities, become a full-fledged person?

Over the entire foreseeable history of the human race, a little more than a hundred cases have been recorded in documentary or oral form when children grew up far from people, alone or in the company of animals whose habits they adopted. Unfortunately, nowadays there are more and more reports about such children in the media.

The purpose of this project- define what constitutes human nature? (slide number 3)

Tasks:

1. Find out whether a person is endowed with the characteristics of a person from birth, or acquires them as a result of communication with his own kind?
2. What is the role of innate and acquired in human development?
3. Who are the "children of Mowgli"?
4. Is human recovery possible?

Who are the "children of Mowgli"?

Karl Linnaeus, who created the classification of plants and animals, in 1758 introduced the term Homo ferens into scientific use, which meant "a creature completely covered with thick hair and not having the power of speech."

Linnaeus described several Homo ferens as examples, among them a Lithuanian "bear boy", an Irish "sheep boy", two Pyrenean hairy boys, and a wild girl from Champagne.

Researchers have collected a huge amount of material about several dozen "wild children" who grew up among animals:(slide number 4)

The first "wolf boy" was discovered in 1344 in Hesse (Germany).

Until the age of 4, he lived in a burrow, ate raw food and was protected by wolves.

In 1731, a 10-year-old girl was found in France, whose thumbs were elongated, which allowed her to easily fly from tree to tree.

Children of "Maugi" are people deprived of human society, children who went missing many years ago. There were cases when a child was born with some kind of deviation, and the mother, fearing that she would be accused of having connections with evil spirits, secretly carried the child into the forest, into caves, into the mountains, and left there for certain death. It happened in another way: left without parental supervision, the baby got lost and the animals took him into their family. Sometimes it happened that the females of the animals themselves captured the babies - these are the females who have lost their cubs. Not only those children who are lost become feral, but also those who were specially kept in an isolated room, never letting out.

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Unfortunately, more and more children - Mowgli began to be found not in the forest or in the jungle, but next to us, in cities and villages, in our time. They live very close, sometimes in neighboring apartments or houses, but most often they are found by pure chance, and often only when irreversible changes in their physical development and psyche have already occurred.

"Mowgli's Children" are among us.

It turns out that people who have grown up among animals are found almost every year. And their fate is not at all like in a fairy tale ...(slide number 6)

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Cat boy. In the fall of 2003, 3-year-old Anton Adamov was found in one of the houses of the village of Goritsy, Ivanovo region. The kid behaved like a real cat: meowing, scratching, hissing, moving on all fours, rubbing his back against people's legs. Throughout the boy's short life, only a cat communicated with him, with which the child was locked by a 28-year-old parent - so as not to distract him from drinking.

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Podolsk boy-dog... In the city of Podolsk near Moscow, in 2008, a seven-year-old child was discovered who lived in an apartment with his mother, and, nevertheless, suffered from "Mowgli's syndrome". In fact, he was raised by a dog: Vitya Kozlovtsev perfectly mastered all dog habits. He ran beautifully on all fours, barked, lapped from a bowl and curled up snugly on the rug. After the boy was found, his mother was deprived of parental rights. Vitya himself was transferred to the "House of Mercy" by Lilit and Alexander Gorelov.

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Boy from Reutov, who became the leader of the dogs. In 1996, 4-year-old Vanya ran away from home from a drinking mother, and her hakhal - an alcoholic. Having joined the two millionth army of homeless children of the Russian Federation. He tried to beg for food from passers-by on the outskirts of Moscow, climbed into a trash can and met a pack of stray dogs, with whom he shared the edible garbage he found. They began to wander together. The dogs protected Vanya and warmed him on winter nights, they chose him as the leader of the pack. So two years passed until Mishukov was detained by the police, enticing him to the back entrance to the restaurant's kitchen. Maltz was sent to an orphanage.

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A fifteen-year-old girl from Ukraine, jumping on all fours, Oksana Malaya grew up in a doghouse, abandoned by her own parents, and miraculously survived, feeding on mongrels' milk. In the orphanage, where she was finally taken, the girl-dog does not like it. She is struggling to return to her former life - she mixes all the dishes in one plate and lapped from there like a dog, and at the first opportunity she begins to move on all fours.

The most famous are the Indian girls Kamala and Amala, found in the jungle in 1920. Until the caretaker of the Midnapor Orphanage, Dr. Singh, caught the sisters, the locals who met the girls in the forest considered them werewolves. The sisters lived in a pack of wolves and moved either on their knees and elbows (when walking slowly), or on their palms and feet (when running fast). They didn't like daylight. The girls ate raw meat and self-caught chickens. To take the girls out of the wolf's den, people had to shoot their "mother", the wolf. At that time, the baby, who was later named Amala, was about one and a half years old, and the one who was given the name Kamala was about eight years old. Amala died of nephritis (inflammation of the kidneys) less than a year after starting life among humans. Kamala lived in a civilized environment for about nine years. She very poorly adapted to human life: she learned only a few words and could not get rid of the habit of getting on all fours.

In 1996, a two-year-old boy was caught living with pandas in China. He crawled on all fours on the ground and ate bamboo. The child's body was completely covered with hair due to a genetic abnormality. Perhaps it is because of this that superstitious parents once carried the baby into the forest and threw him there.

In 2001, a boy was caught in Chile, who escaped from a shelter at the age of 7 with a pack of dogs. The child for two years wandered along the street with the dogs, running away from the police who tried to grab him.

Many other examples are known:

Volgograd bird boy.

Ufa girl-dog.

Vyazemskaya girl-Mowgli.

The dog girl from Chita and many others.

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Children Raised by Animals Sufferdisease - "Mowgli's syndrome".

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Signs of "Mowgli's syndrome".

In the opinion of Galina Alekseevna Panina, candidate of psychological sciences, teacher of the Department of Special and Clinical Psychology, "Mowgli's syndrome" refers to the totality of syndromes that a child grows up outside the social environment demonstrates.

Among the common signs of "Mowgli's syndrome" are speech impairments or inability to speak, inability to walk upright, desocialization, lack of skills in using cutlery, fear of people. Moreover, they often have excellent health and much more stable immunity than people living in society. Psychologists often noted that a person who has spent a long time among animals begins to identify himself with his “fellows”.

The terrible diagnosis "Mowgli's Syndrome" - the irreversibility of defects in mental development - is one of the rarest in medicine, but doctors will have to diagnose it until society learns to take care of unfortunate children, deprived of the attention of relatives, until it stops shifting to animal paws what is its prerogative until he realizes that he is losing a person in the most terrifying way - the loss of his soul.

Is the process of human recovery possible?

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Social isolation in the first months and years of a person's life can lead to severe emotional instability and mental retardation, including the so-called "Mowgli syndrome". The lack of communication in a child leads to abnormalities in the formation of cells that isolate neurons, and a slowdown in communication between different areas of the brain.

American neuroscientists from Harvard Medical School in Boston conducted a study. One group of newborn baby mice was isolated from relatives, and the second was left to develop in a normal environment. Two weeks later, the researchers compared the brains of the rodents from these groups. As it turned out, in isolated mice there was a malfunction of the cells that produce the substance myelin, which is responsible for the sheath of nerve fibers. Myelin protects neurons from mechanical and electrical damage. Disruption in the production of this substance is the cause of diseases such as multiple sclerosis.

The study found that the brains of the isolated mice produced significantly less myelin than the brains of their socialized counterparts. Scientists do not exclude that a similar relationship exists in humans. It is quite possible that the same processes occur during the development of the so-called Mowgli children.

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When asked whether the process of a person's recovery after a long stay outside the human environment in society is possible, experts do not give an unambiguous answer: everything is too individual. In the event that a person has not formed any of the functions in time, it is almost impossible to replenish them later. As experts note, after 12-13 years of age, an undeveloped person can only be "trained" or, in some cases, minimally adapted to the social environment, but whether it is possible to socialize him as a person is a big question. If a child enters the animal community before he has developed the skill of walking upright, then movement on all fours will become the only possible way for life - it will be impossible to retrain.

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Yuri Levchenko, Ph.D. in Psychology, says that in the period up to five years, the elements of communication and psychosomatic functions are laid in a child(Appendix No. 1).Children in isolation do not have psychosomatic stability, and the elements of communication in its complete absence will not be developed. First of all, the child must communicate with his own kind. It is difficult to cure a child who has not had any contact with people before this age.

Two sisters taken from a pack of wolves, both died; the youngest - almost immediately, and the older - a few years later, without having learned to speak

Podolsk boy - a dog, Vitya Kozlovtsev, learned to walk, talk, use a spoon and fork, play and laugh in a year.

Oksana Malaya has been humanized for many years. They taught me how to scribble on a typewriter, to embroider, to count to twenty. But it was impossible to leave her unattended. The matured girl was transferred to a boarding school for adults, where she is allowed to communicate with her best friends - yard dogs. And help look after the cows. Already matured, the dog girl is gradually degrading. Despite all the efforts of educators and teachers, she cannot read and write, although she could only a year ago. With difficulty standing on two legs, to the question: "What do you like to do the most?" answers: "To swing on the grass and bark", and to the question: "Who are you? Are you a man? ", The girl, grinning her teeth, gives a heartbreaking answer:" No, I am an animal, I am a dog. "

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There are cases when "Mowgli's children" managed to survive among people. A ten-year-old boy lived with monkeys for three years, but was able to

In childhood, we all watched a cartoon about a little boy Mowgli, who was raised by a wolf pack. And then it seemed to all of us that this was just a fictional story and that this does not happen in life.

Unfortunately, this is not the case. There are several shocking facts that prove that modern Mowgli can exist in real life. The following 12 facts might just shock you! Do not miss!

1. Madina, Russia, 2013

Another shocking fact is the story of a girl who will amaze you even more! It is known that until the age of 3, the real modern Mugli Madina lived only with dogs, ate the food they got, slept and basked about them when she was cold. The girl's mother was drunk for most of the day, and her father left the family even before her birth. Eyewitnesses say that while my mother had alcoholic guests, Madina ran with the dogs on all fours on the floor and pulled bones. If Madina ran out to the playground, then she did not play, but simply attacked the children, because she could not communicate in any other way. At the same time, doctors give an optimistic forecast for the girl's future, assuring that she only needs adaptation and training.

2. Oksana Malaya, Ukraine, 1991

Oksana Malaya from Ukraine also got into the list of shocking facts about modern Mowgli. This girl was found in a kennel at the age of 8, of which exactly 6 she lived with four-legged. It is known that alcoholic parents threw Oksana out of the house, and the search for warmth and the desire to survive brought her to the doghouse. When the girl was found, she behaved more like a dog than a child - she ran on all fours with her tongue out, barked and bared her teeth. Intensive therapy helped Oksana learn minimal social skills, but her development stopped at the level of a 5-year-old child. Now Oksana Malaya is already 32 years old, she lives in Odessa on a farm under the careful supervision and care.

3. Boy-bird from Russia, 2008

The story of the modern Mowgli Van Yudin from Volgograd has recently stirred up all the media. It turned out that a boy under 7 years old was locked by his mother in a room, the only furniture in which were cages with birds! And, despite the fact that Vanya was not subjected to violence, and his mother fed him regularly, he was deprived of the most important thing - communication! The boy filled this gap with the help of his roommates ... And as a result, Vanya did not learn to speak, but only chirped like a bird and flapped his wings. Now the bird-boy is in the center of psychological rehabilitation.

4. Ivan Mishukov, Russia, 1998

At the age of 4, after suffering domestic violence, Vanya ran away from home. In order to survive, the boy was forced to wander and beg. Soon enough, a pack of dogs took him as one of their own. Vanya ate, slept and played with them. And even more - the dogs "appointed" the boy as their leader! For almost two years Vanya lived a homeless life with four-legged ones, until he got to an orphanage. Today, this modern Mowgli has completely gone through social adaptation and lives a full life.

5. Janie, USA, 1970

Among the shocking facts about modern Mowgli, there is another story about the girl Janie. She was unlucky right after birth. The father decided that she was lagging behind in development and isolated from society. Janie spent most of her childhood alone, sitting on a potty chair in a small room at home. She even slept on this chair! At the age of 13, the girl ended up with her mother in a social service, where workers suspected oddities in her behavior. And it is not surprising, because Janie could not utter a single articulate sound, and also constantly scratched herself and spat. This case turned out to be tempting for many specialists. Janie immediately became a subject for research and experimentation. After a while, she learned a few words, although it was not possible to collect them into sentences. The biggest achievements were reading short texts and minimal social skills. After a little adaptation, Janie lived a little more with her mother and in other foster families, where she went through humiliation and even violence! After the funding of the doctors stopped, the girl's development regressed again and complete silence. For some time, her name was completely forgotten, until a private detective found out that she lives in an institution for mentally retarded adults.

6. Sujit Kumar or Chicken Boy, Fiji, 1978

This kid was locked up in a chicken coop as punishment for bad behavior. This is a truly shocking fact. Well, after the mother shortened her life, and her father was killed, his own grandfather took up the upbringing. However, his methods also cannot be called innovative, because instead of taking care of his grandson, he preferred to close him with chickens and roosters. Rescued from the chicken coop Sujit at the age of 8. It is known that the boy could only cluck and clap. He pecked at the food, and he slept like a bird - sitting and tucking his leg. The workers of the nursing home for some time took him to their rehabilitation, but there the boy behaved very aggressively, for which he was tied to the bed with a sheet for more than 20 years! Now an adult man is looked after by Elizabeth Clayton, who discovered him in childhood in a chicken coop.

7. Kamala and Amala, India, 1920

Another shocking fact is that 8-year-old Amala and one and a half-year-old Kamala were discovered in a wolf's den by Pastor Joseph Singh in 1920. He was able to pick up the girls only when the wolves left the house. But his act did not turn out to be good luck. The captured girls were not ready for life with people, the joints of their arms and legs were deformed from life on all fours, and they preferred to eat only fresh! But amazingly, their hearing, sight and smell were absolute! It is known that Amala died a year after they were found, and Kamala even learned to walk upright and speak a few words, but at the age of 17 she died of kidney failure. Here is such a sad story about two modern Mowgli.

8.John Ssebunya or the monkey boy, Uganda, 1991

After seeing his own father killing his mother, three-year-old John Ssebunya ran away from home. He found his shelter in the jungle with the monkeys. It was from these animals that he learned survival techniques. His diet consisted of roots, sweet potatoes, nuts and cassava. After people found the boy, he was treated for a long time for worms and calluses on his knees. But, besides the fact that John quickly learned to speak, he was found to have another talent - a wonderful voice! Now the monkey boy is a real celebrity, and he can often be seen on tour even in the UK as part of the Pearls of Africa children's choir!

9. Marina Chapman, Columbia, 1959

At the age of 5, Marina was kidnapped from her native village in South America and abandoned by her kidnappers in the jungle. All this time, the Mowgli girl lived among the Capuchin monkeys until she was found by the hunters. She ate everything that animals got - roots, berries, bananas. She slept in the hollows of trees, walked on all fours and did not know how to speak at all. But after the rescue, the girl's life did not improve - she was sold to a brothel, and then turned out to be a servant in the mafia family, from where she was rescued by a neighbor. Despite the fact that he had five children of his own, a kind man took in a girl, and upon reaching adulthood in 1977 he helped Marina find a job as a housekeeper in Great Britain. It was there that the girl decided to arrange her life, got married and even gave birth to children. Well, with her youngest daughter Vanessa, Marina also wrote an autobiographical book "Girl with no name"! Here is such an incredible and shocking fact!

10. Savage from Champagne, France, 1731

Marie Angelique Mammie Le Blanc, despite her age, is well-known and documented! It is known that for more than 10 years Marie wandered through the forests of France alone. Armed with a club, the girl herself defended herself from wild animals, ate fish, birds and frogs. When Marie was caught at the age of 19, her skin was already completely dark, her hair was only matted with tow, and her fingers were curled up. The girl was always ready to attack, looked around her and even drank water on all fours from the river. She did not know human speech and communicated with the help of howling and growling. It is known that she could not get used to ready-made food either, preferring to get and eat raw animals on her own! In 1737, rather for the sake of hunting fun, the girl was sheltered by the Queen of Poland. Since that time, rehabilitation among people has borne the first fruits - the girl learned to speak, read and even attracted her first fans. The Savage from Champagne lived to be 63 years old, and died in 1775 in Paris.

11. Leopard Boy, India, 1912

At the age of 2, this baby was dragged into the thicket of the forest by a female leopard. After 3 years, the hunter, having killed the predator, found her cubs and a five-year-old boy in the den! Then the baby was returned to his own family. It is known that for a long time the boy ran on all fours, biting and growling. And he bent his fingers out of habit at right angles, for comfortable climbing in trees. And despite the fact that the adaptation returned him to his "human" appearance, the leopard boy did not live long, dying of an eye disease (this was not related to his childhood adventures!)

12. Wolf Girl, Mexico, 1845/1852

And this little girl is a real modern Mowgli, raised by wolves and did not allow herself to be tamed! It is known that several times she was seen standing on all fours, in a pack of wolves attacking goats and sucking milk from a she-wolf.

A photo project dedicated to modern Mowgli - children raised among animals - has become one of the most high-profile and stunning projects created by the London-based photographer of German origin Julia Fullerton-Batten. These staged photographs reveal the terrible problems of modern society, in which, unfortunately, there is still a place for such anti-social phenomena as child homelessness.

The photo project is based on the real stories of children who were once lost, stolen or simply abandoned by their parents to their fate.

1. Lobo, wolf girl, Mexico, 1845-1852

In 1845, this girl was seen running on all fours with a pack of wolves attacking a herd of goats. A year later, she was seen eating a goat along with wolves. The girl was caught, but she ran away. In 1852, she was again seen - this time sucking a she-wolf, but she again managed to escape into the forest from people who were trying to catch her. She was never seen again.

2. Oksana Malaya, Ukraine, 1991

Oksana was found living with the dogs. She was 8 years old, and from the age of 6 she lived with animals. The girl's parents were alcoholics and once they simply forgot her on the street. A three-year-old girl, in search of warmth, made her way into a corral with animals, where she fell asleep among the mongrel dogs, which then saved her life. When the girl was found, she behaved more like a dog than like a human child. She ran on all fours, tongue sticking out, grinning and barking. Of all the human words she understood only "yes" and "no." Intensive therapy helped Oksana regain social and verbal skills, but only at the level of a five-year-old. Now she lives in a clinic in Odessa and takes care of animals on the farm at the institution.

3. Shamdeo, India, 1972

This four-year-old boy was discovered in the forests of India playing with wolf cubs. He had dark skin, pointed teeth, long hooked nails, matted hair, and calluses on his palms, elbows, and knees. He enjoyed hunting chickens, could eat land, had a craving for blood, and roamed with stray dogs. He managed to wean him off eating raw meat, but he never spoke, just learning to understand a little sign language. In 1978 he was admitted to Mother Teresa's hospice for the poor and dying in Lucknow, where he received a new name - Pascal. He died in February 1985.

4. Prava (boy-bird), Russia, 2008

Prava, a 7-year-old boy found in his 31-year-old mother's two-room apartment. The kid was locked in a room full of bird entrances with dozens of decorative birds, among the food and droppings. The mother treated her son like one of her pets. She never caused him physical suffering, did not beat him, did not leave him hungry, but she never spoke to him as a person. The boy communicated only with birds. He could not speak, but he could twitter. When he was not understood, he began to wave his arms like a bird's wings.

Prava was transferred to a psychological assistance center, where he is undergoing rehabilitation.

5. Marina Chapman, Columbia, 1959

Marina was kidnapped in 1954 from a remote village in South America at the age of 5 and abandoned by her captors in the jungle. She lived with a family of little Capuchin monkeys for five years before she was accidentally discovered by hunters. The girl ate berries, roots and bananas dropped by the monkeys; she slept in the hollows of trees and walked on all fours. One day the girl got food poisoning. The old monkey took her to a puddle of water and made her drink until she vomited, after which the girl felt better. Marina made friends with little monkeys, thanks to whom she learned to climb trees and recognize what is safe to eat.

The girl had completely lost the ability to speak by the time she was found by the hunters. Unfortunately, even after that, she had a hard time, since the hunters sold her to a brothel, from where she fled, after which she wandered the streets for a long time. Then she fell into slavery to a family that traded in dark deeds, and stayed there until a neighbor rescued her, who sent her to live with his daughter and son-in-law in Bogotá. The new family adopted the girl, and she began to live with their five own children. When Marina came of age, she was offered the function of housekeeper and nanny for a family of relatives. In 1977, together with her new family, Marina moved to Bradford (UK), where she lives today. She got married and had children.

Together with her youngest daughter, Marina wrote a book about her difficult childhood spent in the wild forest, and about everything that she had to endure afterwards. The book is called "The Girl Without a Name."

6. Madina, Russia, 2013

Madina lived with dogs from birth until she was 3 years old. She ate with the dogs, played with them, and slept with them during the cold season. When social workers found her in 2013, the girl was walking on all fours, completely naked and growling like a dog. Madina's father left the family shortly after her birth. Her 23-year-old mother began to abuse alcohol. She was always too drunk to care for a child and often disappeared from home. Also, the mother often drank and feasted with drinking companions while her young daughter gnawed bones on the floor, along with the dogs.

When her mother was angry with her, the girl ran out into the street, to the neighboring yards, but none of the children played with her, because she did not know how to talk and only growled and fought with everyone. Over time, dogs became the girl's best and only friends.

According to doctors, despite all this, the girls are physically and mentally healthy. There is a fairly high chance that she will be able to lead an ordinary life after she learns to speak and acquires the human skills necessary for her age.

7. Jenny, USA, 1970

When Jenny was a child, her father decided that she was mentally retarded, so he constantly kept her on a potty chair in one of the small rooms of the house. The girl spent more than 10 years in this "solitary confinement". She even had to sleep in this chair. Jenny was 13 years old when her mother came to social services with her and social workers noticed the oddities in the girl's behavior. She was still not toilet trained and had a rather strange gait. She also did not know how to talk or make any articulate sounds. The girl spat and scratched herself all the time.

Jenny has been the subject of research for quite some time. Experts taught her, and she even learned a few words, but was not able to assemble them into a single grammatical structure. Over time, the girl learned to read short texts and acquired minimal skills in social behavior. She had a chance to live a little longer with her mother, and then she lived in different foster families, where, unfortunately, she went through humiliation, harassment and violence.

After all that she had suffered, the girl was returned to the children's hospital, where the doctors noted a clear regression in her development - she again returned to her previous silent state. In 1974, funding for Jenny's treatment and research ended, and for quite some time nothing was known about her or her whereabouts. Much later, a private detective managed to find her in one of the medical facilities for mentally retarded adults.

8. Leopard Boy, India, 1912

This two-year-old boy was dragged into the jungle by a female leopard. Three years later, the hunter killed her and found three cubs in the den, one of which was a five-year-old boy. The child was returned to an Indian family in a remote, abandoned village from which he was abducted. When the boy was first caught, he could run on all fours as fast and dexterously as a normal adult can run on foot. The boy's knees were covered with rough calluses, the fingers were bent almost at right angles (for more comfortable climbing trees). He bit, growled and fought with everyone who tried to approach him.

Subsequently, the boy was able to accustom him to human behavior, and he even began to walk upright. Unfortunately, a little later, he was almost completely blind due to cataracts. The disease was hereditary in his family and had nothing to do with his "adventures" in the jungle.

9. Sujit Kumar (chicken boy), Fiji, 1978

Parents locked the boy in a chicken coop for dysfunctional behavior he displayed as a child. Kumar's mother committed suicide and his father was killed. His grandfather took responsibility for the child, but he, too, continued to keep the boy locked in a chicken coop. He was 8 years old when neighbors saw him on the road pecking at something in the dust and clucking. His fingers were curled up like chicken feet.

Social workers took the boy to a local nursing home, but there, due to aggressive behavior, he was tied to a bed and spent more than 20 years in this position. Now in his 30s, he is looked after by Elizabeth Clayton, who once rescued him from home.

10. Kamala and Amala, India, 1920

Kamala, 8, and Amala, 12, were found in 1920 in a den of wolves. This is one of the most famous cases of "wild children". Presumably, they were found by the Reverend Joseph Singh, who was hiding in a tree above a cave where the girls were seen. As the wolves left the den, the priest saw two figures emerging from the cave. The girls looked terrifying, walked on all fours and did not look like people at all.

The man managed to grab the girls as they slept, curled up together. The girls tore off the clothes they were wearing, they scratched, fought, howled and ate nothing but raw meat. During their stay with the wolves, all their joints were deformed and their limbs looked more like paws. The girls showed no interest in interacting with people. But their vision, hearing and olfactory abilities were amazing!

Amala passed away a year after the girls began to live among humans. Kamala learned to pronounce a few phrases and walk on two legs, but at the age of 17 she also died of kidney failure.

11. Ivan Mishukov, Russia, 1998

The boy was abused by his parents and ran away from home when he was only 4 years old. He was forced to wander the streets and beg. He befriended a pack of stray dogs and roamed the streets with them and shared his food with them. The dogs accepted the boy, began to treat him with respect and, in the end, he even became something like their leader. For two years Ivan lived with the dogs until they found him and sent him to an orphanage for street children.

The fact that the boy was among the animals for a relatively short time had a positive effect on his ability to recover and socialize. Today Ivan lives an ordinary life.

12. Marie Angelica Memmy Le Blanc (wild girl from Champagne), France, 1731

Aside from her childhood, this 18th century girl's story is surprisingly well documented. For 10 years of wandering, she single-handedly walked thousands of kilometers through the forests of France, feeding on roots, plants, frogs and fish. Armed only with a club, she fought off wild animals, mainly wolves. When people caught her (at the age of 19), the girl was completely dark-skinned, with matted hair and hard, curled claws. When the girl went down on all fours to drink water from the river, she was constantly on alert and looked around as if expecting a sudden attack. Marie did not know human speech and could only communicate with the help of growls or howls.

For years, she never touched cooked food, preferring to eat raw chicken and rabbits. Her fingers remained gnarled and she used them to dig out roots or climb trees. In 1737, the Queen of Poland, the mother of the French Queen, took Memmi with her on a hunt on her way to France, where she proved to be still capable of running like a beast - fast enough to catch and kill wild rabbits.

However, the girl's recovery from the effects of her ten years in the wild was remarkable. She acquired several wealthy patrons and learned to read, write and speak fluent French. She died in Paris in 1775, at the age of 63.

13.John Ssebunya (monkey boy), Uganda, 1991

At the age of 3, the boy ran away from home after seeing his father kill his mother. The kid hid in the jungle and took root in the family of wild monkeys. In 1991, when he was 6 years old, the boy was accidentally discovered by hunters and sent to an orphanage. When it was cleaned there and washed of dirt, it turned out that the child's body was completely covered with coarse hair.

The boy's diet in the jungle consisted mainly of roots, foliage, sweet potatoes, nuts and bananas. It was also infected with dangerous intestinal worms, the length of which reached up to half a meter.

John succumbed to training and education relatively easily, learned to speak and even showed a talent for singing! Thanks to this, he subsequently even toured the UK with a male choir.

14.Victor (wild boy from Aveyron), France, 1797

Victor was first discovered in the late 18th century in the forests of St. Sernin-sur-Rance, in the south of France. He was caught by humans, but somehow managed to escape again. In January 1800, the boy was caught again. He was about 12 years old, his body was completely covered with scars, and the child was unable to speak. It is believed that he spent about 7 years in the wild.

Testing the boy's ability to endure low temperatures, the French professor of biology sent Victor undressed to walk through the streets in the snow. Oddly enough, the boy was not at all discouraged, and he felt surprisingly calm even in such conditions.

However, when trying to teach the guy to talk and behave as befits in society, all the teachers suffered a fiasco. The boy may have been able to hear and speak before he was in the wild, but after returning to civilization, he was never able to do so again. He died in one of the Parisian research institutes at the age of 40.

Mowgli and Tarzan, being fabulous heroes, skillfully found a common language both with animals and then with people, they understood the laws of the animal and human world. There are many stories of human children growing up wild. But is the adaptation process possible and are their stories so exciting and happy?

According to the documentation, there are about a hundred wild children in the world. They can be "adopted" by any animals, and they will adopt all the habits, will eat what the "educators" do. Most often, however, children live with dogs or monkeys.

The story of how a bear was raised by a bear in the Altai Territory was described by either a writer or a photographer. According to him, she looked after the boy, and before winter, realizing that she would go into hibernation, she transferred him to China. And when, a few years later, the author of this story went back to those lands, on one of the rocks he saw not a boy, but an adult man. Only it was impossible to approach him - a wild beast stood in front of him.

This narrative is more like a fairy tale, which, after all, all similar stories are like. Sometimes it is really difficult to discern where is the truth, and where the inventions of the authors.

Among the real stories, the prevailing ones are those when children became wild due to the negligence of their parents, and not because, for some reason, they found themselves among the animals.

"Cubs" Kamala and Amala

The most famous story of wild children is about the Indian girls Kamala and Amala. India has perhaps the largest number of stories about such children. Perhaps due to the proximity to the jungle.

In 1920, in one of the villages, local residents noticed "strange ghosts" in the jungle. People began to hunt them and found that human children lived with the wolves. When they began to tear apart the lair, the she-wolf who protected him was killed. In the hole, they found two girls, about two and eight years old, along with the wolf cubs. Both girls were running on all fours, unable to speak. They were named Kamala and Amala. The youngest died a year later. The eldest lived another nine years, barely able to stand up straight and pronounce a few words. When the youngest girl died, Kamala cried for the first time in her life. It was noticeable that both girls were unhappy in captivity.

Ukrainian dog girl

One of the high-profile stories of our time. In 1992, a strange child was brought to the Odessa boarding school for children with developmental disabilities, who had to be kept in an isolation ward for a month.

The medical card indicated that it was a girl of eight years old. True, as soon as someone approached the newcomer, she grinned and growled menacingly. The girl really looked very much like a dog: she moved on all fours, easily jumped on the table, bench, refused to sleep on the bed, barked and could bite painfully. The girl did not know how to cry, and when she was offended, she squealed pitifully.

The dog girl did not speak, although she perfectly understood human speech. Over time, in the boarding school, Oksana Malaya (that is the name of the girl) learned to behave like a human being. Until the age of 18, she learned to read and write a little, as well as count within 20. However, Oksana did not become full-fledged.

Mowgli from the Kaluga region

And in 2008, in Russia, residents of one of the villages in the Kaluga region found a boy in the forest, who looked about 10 years old. The boy was with wolves and completely copied their habits. When the doctors decided to catch the boy, they found him in the wolf's den.

In fact, the guy turned out to be 20 years old. From life in a wolf pack, his toenails almost turned into claws, his teeth resembled fangs, his behavior in everything copied the habits of wolves.

The young man did not know how to speak, did not understand Russian and responded to "kitty-kitty-kitty". Unfortunately, the specialists failed to return the guy to normal life, and just a day after he was locked up in the clinic, he ran away. His further fate is unknown.

Chita pupil of dogs

In 2009, in the city of Chita, in Russia, a five-year-old girl Natasha was found, who spent most of her life among dogs, because her parents did not do it at all. The girl was never on the street, and her parents did not let anyone into the apartment where she lived. She lived in a three-room apartment with relatives and animals, did not speak, but understood a little human speech. The mother claimed that the girl was kidnapped by her father, and the father claimed that the mother was never interested in the child.

Both of the girl's parents were alcoholics. The girl walked like a dog, drank water from a bowl and instead of talking, gave out only barking, she could throw herself at people. When she was found, she was transferred to a rehabilitation center.

Gini from California

In 1970, the American police found in one of the houses in California a girl who had lived in complete isolation from the world for the first 12 years of her life. During the first six months of her life, Jeanie was regularly seen by a pediatrician. According to medical records, she was a normal child.

At the age of 14 months, Gini was diagnosed with acute pneumonia, and the doctor said she was showing signs of "probable mental retardation." This assumption became a turning point in Gini's life: the girl's father isolated her in one of the rooms of his house from contact with her mother and older brother. He fed the girl only infant formula in milk and communicated with her, mainly imitating a dog's barking and growling.

Every time she tried to speak, he beat her with a stick. At the age of 13, when Gini was admitted to the children's hospital, she could not run, could not fully straighten her arms and legs. The girl did not react to the ambient temperature, was not toilet trained, did not know how to chew, and did not control salivation. Jeanie never learned human speech, limiting herself to a few simple phrases. At the same time, the level of non-verbal intelligence has risen over time to more than acceptable levels.

Sisters Dogs

In 2011, in the Primorsky district of St. Petersburg, they found Mowgli girls - two sisters, six and four years old. They never ate hot food, did not know how to speak, and expressed gratitude, like dogs, trying to lick adults' hands. The girls' parents are experienced alcoholics.

Lviv "Mowgli"

Probably, many remember the story of two brothers from Lviv, whom their parents isolated from the world and kept in complete unsanitary conditions. The brothers were 14 and 6 years old. They could neither speak nor walk. The younger one has never been on the street. The children were unwashed, with long hair and in a dirty room that did not resemble an apartment. In such conditions, the elder brother lived for 12 years, the younger - all his life.

The boys' mother did not go outside either. And to her and the house did not let anyone in. The woman suffered from mental illness, but her father was completely healthy. According to the doctors, the youngest boy has changed somewhat, being among people - he smiles and learned to eat correctly. It is more difficult for the older brother - because of atrophied feet, he cannot walk, he is more withdrawn and silent.

As a rule, children run wild from insufficient attention of their parents, or from the influence of adults with mental disorders on them. However, how parents manage to completely isolate their own children from the world and turn them into savages in the conditions of civilization is unknown.

Psychologists who study Mowgli syndrome say that a wild child can be taught to imitate human behavior, but only through training. True, if a child was returned to people before the "teenage threshold" of 12-13 years old, he can still be adapted to society, but mental disorders will remain with him until the end of his life.

For example, if a child enters the animal community before he has developed the skill of walking upright, then movement on all fours will become the only possible way for life - it will no longer be possible to retrain.

Those who lived among animals for the first 3-6 years of life, practically cannot master human speech, walk upright, meaningfully communicate with other people, despite even the years spent in the future in human society. If, before isolation from society, children had some skills of social behavior, the process of their rehabilitation is much easier.