15 Kids Who Were Raised By Wild Animals

although some kids might debate this from time to time not many are raised by wild animals okay so your parents or caregivers might yell on occasion but they're not some formidable monster that belongs in the wild or are they surprisingly there are some children in the world who call a wild animal mom or dad from the little girl with a bear for a friend to the child who acted like a dog for years here are 15 kids who were raised by wild animals number 15 olga barenciva if this little girl ever attends school she has a real tale to tell not only was she raised by a wild bear they're now best friends nicknamed olga by russian photographer olga berensiva this little ass's childhood wasn't your traditional run-of-the-mill type swung from trees hid from predators and ate whatever nature provided she was well protected too i mean there wouldn't be many animals or people for that matter who would take on her big brown bear friend that's for sure i'm betting this wild and burly individual would be quite the protective type and certainly not to be messed with although olga probably has learned a few tricks herself wouldn't you say the wild bear is now her pet but i doubt he attends the annual pet day imagine that moscow-based bar and siva has captured quite the collection of mesmerizing images most consist of models posing with animals including bears wolves raccoons ostriches owls crocodiles and even snakes this recent picture of olga riding on the back of her 1500 pound seven foot tall companion is pretty cute don't you think but would you have a bear as a pet or let your child be partially raised by one before we go on like this video smash the subscribe button and click the notification bell right now or slenderman will come from under your bed while you're sleeping [Applause] number 14. ukrainian girl raised by dogs can you imagine growing up isolated from any form of human contact even your parents i mean adults and other children in your life are the ones that teach you everything from walking and talking to reading writing even toilet training and eating so what happens when you have none of this when you're left to your own devices essentially fending for yourself like an animal you become wild or feral whether by accident or on purpose children raised this way come closer to the border between humans and animals than the rest of us they have little to no experience of human care behavior or human language and are often saved and raised by animals this is the case of oksana malaya of novaya blagovaschensk ukraine she was born to alcoholic parents on november 4th 1983 and was extremely neglected by them both after being locked out of the house when she was just three she sought warmth and shelter from the dog kennel where she continued to live for five years she survived on her all meat and scraps essentially becoming part of the pack rarely interacting with her parents when police were finally contacted oksana was walking on all fours barking and sleeping full time in the kennel with her furry family she was taken to an orphanage school and was slowly reintegrated into human society sadly today she only has the mental function of a six-year-old number 13 abandoned in the nigerian forest it's hard to fathom how anyone could abandon their child let alone one that was physically and mentally challenged but this was the case for a disabled boy named bello who was taken to a forest in nigeria and left there at just 6 years old he had to fend for himself in the falgor forest 150 kilometers south of kano fortunately a group of chimpanzees took him under their wing nursing him as if he were their own he soon began to walk and behave just like his animal guardians and when found by hunters 18 months later he showed all the characteristics of a primate bellow even had the same gait as the chimps and walked on two feet while dragging his hands on the ground he was put into the specialist care of the two done maliki tori home in kano in the hope that he could be rehabilitated but unfortunately he was unable to be reintegrated into society the young boy is said to have leapt around his dormitory at night clapping his hands over his head and throwing and smashing things similar to a chimpanzee attempts to help him regain his human-like characteristics failed and came to an end in 2005 when poor bellow passed away number 12 dina santachar was the wolf boy an indian boy found wandering in the wilderness was literally raised by wolves and after years of living in civilization he still maintains some of their traits once described as the wolf baby six-year-old dina sanachar was found by a group of hunters in the dense forest of bulan shah district uttar pradesh the hunters deemed his situation unnatural and he was extracted and taken back to civilization in order to remove the feral child they had to smoke the cave and kill the female wolf protecting him the boy was taken to the cicandra missio orphanage near agra where he was given his name obviously after so many years in the wild he lacked social skills couldn't walk properly or talk he was considered feral and was just one of several wolf children found at the time with many more surfacing over the years santa char growled and grunted like a wolf ate raw meat and sharpened his teeth on bones his caregivers at the orphanage worked tirelessly with him gradually encouraging a great deal of normal human behavior however he never learned to speak he lived in the orphanage his entire life and died at just 34 of what is believed to have been tuberculosis number 11 cambodian jungle woman a vietnamese woman affectionately named cambodia's jungle woman emerged from the jungle in ratanakiri province in 2007 a full 18 years after disappearing without a trace she was discovered scavenging naked and caked in mud and released into the custody of a cambodian couple who believed she was their long-lost daughter rosham pnyang french the tippy in fact and in her heart remained an african she experienced difficulties adjusting to civilized life with a spanish psychologist claiming she could only sound out some words her family had to watch her around the clock to ensure she didn't return to the jungle and her mother constantly had to insist she kept her clothes on she occasionally spent weeks in the jungle but always returned in 2016 it was discovered that pinyang had been living with the wrong family for almost 10 years she wasn't their long-lost daughter after all she was actually the biological child of pel from vietnam's gli province and her name was talk she disappeared in 2006 following a mental breakdown so it only spent a year surviving in the jungle as opposed to the 18 previously thought a distinguishing scar on her wrist an ear condition and a spot on her lip helped confirm that she was indeed pel's daughter number 10 the boy and the cats in 2008 a young boy was discovered by police eating scraps and living rough on the streets of missiones in argentina believed to be just a year old the little boy was surrounded by eight wild cats who doctors believe kept him alive during the freezing nights that would otherwise have killed him they also kept him safe from harm hissing at police as they approached him his ordeal mirrored that of jungle book character mao glee with the gang of cats foraging for his food and keeping him clean officer alicia lorena lindqvist who discovered the child said she was drawn to the scene as it was unusual to see so many cats sitting so close together as she stepped closer she noticed the little boy lying at the bottom of a gutter the cats spat at her as she approached they were protecting their fragile little friend while he slept the boy's father was found to be homeless and said that he had lost the boy several days prior while out collecting cardboard to sell thankfully he was in good hands but it does beg the question why his disappearance hadn't been reported don't you think number nine an unbelievable tale it's hard to imagine the horror felled by a little girl who was stolen from her family and dumped in the jungle surviving only due to the kindness of monkeys aged just four marina chapman was kidnapped and then abandoned in a south american rainforest by her captors she spent five years in the colombian jungle copying monkey's eating habits and high-pitched cries chapman even learned to climb trees and slept in a hollowed-out trunk at night unceremoniously snatched from her back garden she thought she was gonna die but hers is a tale of survival and a remarkable wanted that helpless abandoned and frightened she endured a night alone before a group of monkeys approached her years later she declares it was the human kindness of the apes that saved her teaching her how to survive in her new home protecting her and feeding her without them chapman believed she would have succumbed to illness the elements or the jaws of one of the jungle's many predators she gave her new family names including grandpa tonality and played their own role in chapman's life several years later she was rescued by hunters with minimal human language chapman was sold into a brothel lived on the streets and then became a slave of a mafia family fortunately she was saved by a neighbor who adopted her when she was just 14. number eight siberian boy raised by dogs andre tolstick was discovered in a remote part of siberia when he was seven years old he had been raised by wolves from the age of three months after his parents had abandoned him in 2004 andre was found by social workers who were concerned the boy hadn't been enrolled in his local school born with speech and hearing problems his wayward mother had left him in the care of his alcoholic invalid father he too gave up on the boy and soon disappeared the family lived in the hamlet of bespolavuskoya their house was so remote that their absence went unnoticed and andre was forced to seek help from the family guard dog his very existence had been forgotten when found andre could not talk walked on all fours bit people and sniffed his food before eating it he was basically feral but he had survived known as the dog boy by many he was moved to a shelter for orphans and encouraged to mix with other children unfortunately when he first arrived most were afraid of his aggressive and erratic behavior but he quickly mastered the art of eating with a spoon making his own bed playing with a ball and walking on two legs number seven raised by goats in the andes in 1990 a 12 year old boy was found in the andes peru it's believed he spent eight years living alone with just a group of wild goats for company the boy who was later named daniel was discovered in the mountains of peru and is said to have survived primarily on goat's milk and roots and berries found in the area how the child had come to be there remains a mystery but he had adapted to his goat family's way of life right down to the way they walked when he was found he was easily moving around on all fours on rocky and hilly areas his hands and feet were so calloused that they resembled actual goat hooves he was given the name daniel by a team from kansas university and kansas state university who were intrigued by his unusual story they spent time with the boy and confirmed his language skills were almost non-existent he was however able to communicate with the goats who he considered his family the rest of his story remains a mystery the andes goat boy appears to have no human family well at least not one that's interested in being found number six the mountain boy of spain this spanish-born feral child was sold to a hermit goat herder when he was just seven years old after his master died marcos rodriguez pantojo was left alone with the wolves in the sierra morena mountain ranges many years later he was returned to civilization at 19 but had difficulty adjusting in fact when he sat in front of a bowl of soup he had no idea what to do cupping his hands he plunged them into the bowl and promptly burned himself on the boiling liquid the plate ended up in pieces on the floor and poor marcos was terrified he hadn't eaten at a table since he was a small child and had no idea what was happening with just wolves goats snakes and other animals for company over a 12-year period marcos was devoid of any social skills and had to learn from scratch having suffered years of beatings at the hands of his stepmother he preferred the solitude of the mountains and had made no attempt to seek human company fortunately the goat-herding hermit had taught him to hunt rabbits and partridges with traps made of sticks and leaves so marcos never went hungry he said he established a special bond with the animals and they were his guide whatever they ate he ate number five the boy who was raised by african monkeys it would certainly appear that if there's any animal we can rely on in the wild it's a monkey or several in this case a little boy named john cebunya was found by a tribes woman in 1991. he was hiding in a tree in the forest by the kabungi village near bombo north of kampala he had fled from his father years prior after he had witnessed him murdering his mother and he had been living with african monkeys ever since after finding the boy men folk from the village tried to take him back with them but he resisted even his adoptive family came to his defense throwing sticks at the villagers his years of living in the wild had left him with scars many of them physical but most emotional john's entire body was covered with hair his face was covered with the hair he was full of worms and his knees were scarred from crawling he was put into the care of paul and molly wasswa who ran a charitable foundation for orphans they taught him to speak and also sing in fact so great was his singing voice that he toured with the pearl of africa children's choir and was the subject of a bbc documentary living proof in 1999 number four the ostrich boy a boy named hadara lost by his parents at the age of two hedara roamed the sahara desert alone before meeting up with a family of ostriches now these birds aren't exactly known for their kind and caring personalities in fact they're downright terrifying and not to be approached at least the ones that i've seen so it might come as a bit of a surprise that these extraordinary birds decided to take a helpless little toddler under their wing so to speak today ostriches are only found natively in the wild in africa they are known for their nomadic tendency and primarily hunt in the morning and the evening in groups of up to 50. males are extremely territorial and aggressive but fortunately the ostrich boy as he's often referred to was only met with kindness perhaps they understood his plight possibly more so than he did whatever the reason the ostriches welcomed him into their family and raised him until he was rescued and taken back to society and his parents at the age of 12. many are skeptical of the authenticity of this tale as hedara had no difficulty adapting to life with his parents he learned to read and write and later married and had children in 2000 his son amedu helped swedish author monica zach to retell his father's story the book is a mixture of hidaris stories and zack's own fantasy number three raised by birds vanya yuden hidara wasn't the only child believed to be raised by birds vanya yuden a little russian boy was also cared for by a group of feathered friends referred to by news agencies as the russian bird boy vanya was found by russian caseworkers in 2008 at the time he was just seven years old and unable to speak it was obvious that he had been surrounded by birds for a long portion of his life as he did nothing but make chirping noises and flap his arms as if they were wings but there's one big difference between vanya and other feral children that have been rescued from the wild vanya actually lived with his mother in a two-bedroom apartment the apartment was filled with bird cages and dozens of birds the little boy had befriended them all as his mother never spoke to him instead just treating him like another bird vanya adapted the only way he knew how developing a bird-like identity to get attention number two maoghly girl feral child raised by monkeys this tale of a little girl abandoned in the wild may not be all that it seems the mougly girl was rescued by indian police in early 2017. she appeared to be living with a colony of monkeys in the cadder nygot wildlife sanctuary not far from the nepal border there's been some confusion about her age due to her size but the girl was believed to be between 8 and 12 years of age the police were on a routine patrol in the area and discovered the child who can either speak nor behave like a normal human being her story captured national and international attention but many believe that she couldn't have lived in the wild undetected for as long as first thought no one seems to know exactly how long she was there but she exhibited some violent animal-like behavior when she was first hospitalized the city hospital doctors who were treating her said that she very quickly began walking and eating normally and although she didn't speak was able to understand what she was being told at the time police told the new indian express that it appeared she had lived with the monkeys since birth though this is pure speculation another possibility is that the girl was mentally and physically disabled and abandoned by her parents who were struggling to make ends meet after spotting an article with a photo of their daughter in the local newspaper the couple from john poor in uttar pradesh visited her in a children's home but had to undergo dna testing to prove their connection according to them she had been missing for less than a year number one missing indian girl returns after 38 years imagine spending almost 40 years in the indian jungle aged just four ang shady went missing from a tiny village in seiha in the southernmost district of mizoram bordering myanmar now 42 she has finally been reunited with her family after being found living naked in a cemetery nearby villagers had heard talk of a jungle girl for decades but dismissed the claims as idol gossip but now it has been confirmed that the missing girl was chidi who has finally been reunited with her father and kyla and her mother ang angola after 38 years live in or off the pair thought they would never see their daughter alive again and had almost given up hope of ever doing so chidi and her cousin bairaku went missing in 1974. they were out playing in the jungles fields and trees next to their village when they disappeared a day later bayraku was discovered beside a stream but chidi was nowhere to be found villager suspected ghosts took the girl as they believed the forest was haunted the family searched the entire forest for months but there was no trace of her when found she didn't remember anything from her past her parents tried to rekindle her memory but failed if you thought feral children only existed in fairy tales you might be wrong although it is rare they are real sadly there have been over 100 documented cases of kids raised by animals living in the wild all by themselves having lived in uncivilized conditions for so many years some never quite fit into human life again once they return it's hard to believe but it's true also check out our other cool stuff showing up on screen right now see you next time

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Length: 23min 25sec (1405 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 04 2020