Feral Children: A feral or wild child is a human child who has lived isolated from human contact from a very young age, and has little or no experience of human care, behavior, or, crucially, of human language.
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The Indian Wolf Boy
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Shamdeo
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The Leopard Boy
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Ng Chhaidy
In a more recent case Ng Chhaidy went missing from Mizoram at the age of 4. She was found in Myanmar 38 years later and brought home to be rehabilitated.
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Kamala and Amala
Singh’s claims were later dismissed as a fabricated story by a French surgeon, and refuted by researchers, however, what they do not refute is the existence of feral children. You can read about the controversy here.
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Photographer Julia Fullerton Batten who discovered the same recreated some stories about feral children from around the world in a series of beautiful photographs. All the images in the article are sourced from the same shoot.