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#13 – Lobo Wolf Girl, Mexico, 1845-1852

13 Really Shocking Stories of Feral Children Raised by Animals!

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

Once girl was grabbed, but she managed to escape. In 1852, she was again noted with cubs, but this time she managed to escape too. Since then, nobody saw her.

#12 – Oksana Malaya, Ukraine, 1991

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

So the girl began to live with them. When people learned about this story, Oksana looked more like a dog than a human being. She ran on all fours, grinning, breathing, hanging tongue out, and growling. Due to the lack of communication with people by age of 8 she learned only two words: "Yes" and "No."

Intensive therapy has helped restore Oksana’s social and verbal skills, but only at the level of five-year children. Now a girl 30 years old, she lives in a special clinic in Odessa and caring for animals.

#11 – Shamdeo, India, 1972

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Shamdeo, a boy about five years old, was discovered in India in 1972, playing with cubs. His skin was very dark, he had sharpened teeth, long nails hooks, matted hair and calluses on the palms, elbows and knees. He hunts for chickens and suffered blood thirsty. He was taken from the wild. He could not speak, but scientists have been able to teach him sign language, they failed eventually wean him from eating raw meat. In 1978 he was admitted to the house of Mother Teresa for the poor and dying in Lucknow, where he was nicknamed Pascal. He died in February 1985.

#10 – 'Rights' Boy-bird, Russia, 2008

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Seven year old boy by the name of Rights was found in a tiny two-room apartment where he lived with his 31-year-old mother. His mother kept him in the room with birdcages containing dozens of ornamental birds and bird feed and droppings. She treated her son as well as with their winged pets. The boy did not suffer physically and mother never left him without food, but she never spoke with him, so the boy spoke only with birds. He could not speak, only twitter. He also waved his arms like a bird wings, not realizing at the same time, what he does. As a result, Rights has been taken away from his mother and placed in a mental health care center, where doctors are trying to rehabilitate him.

#9 – Marina Chapman, Colombia, 1959

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Marina had been kidnapped in 1954 from a remote village in South Africa and left her captors in the jungle. She lived with a family of small monkeys, capuchins for five years before it was discovered by hunters. She ate berries, roots and fallen bananas with monkeys, Marina slept in the hollows of trees and walked on all fours. One day, she got a severe food poisoning. Mature monkey took her to a puddle of water, and forced her to drink, the girl threw and was doing well.

By the time she was rescued by hunters Marina completely forgot people language. She was sold to a brothel by hunters, from where she escaped and lived on the street. Then she was seized by a mafia family, but luckily she was saved by neighbor, who sent her to live in Bogota, together with his own son and daughter. When Marina had reached adolescence, she was offered a job as a housekeeper and nanny for the youngest family members. Family with Marina moved to Bradford, Yorkshire, United Kingdom, in 1977, where she still lives. She got married and had children. Marina and her younger daughter, Vanessa James co-wrote a book about her experience in the wild, which they called “The Girl With No Name.”

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