Are there any actual cases of feral children being raised by animals?
These are children who have supposedly been raised by animals: there are monkey boys, wolf girls, gazelle boys and even an ostrich boy. Click on the child’s name to read more about that child. The information available varies greatly from child to child. Where the name is in bold, there is a considerable amount of information here. Authenticity: Are any of these stories true? The evidence for many is virtually non-existent. Some, such as The Lobo Girl of Devil’s River are quite possibly merely folk tales. In The Mother Wolf, the final chapter of his PhD thesis, Paul Williams questions whether any child has really been raised by animals. However, in May 2005, a nursing dog did retrieve an abandoned human baby and carry it to its litter of puppies. In The Wolf Children: Fact or Fantasy?, Charles MacLean sets out to discover whether the best-known case of wolf children, that of Kamala and Amala, is true or a complete hoax. Animal characteristics: Many children who’ve lived with animals te
These are children who have supposedly been raised by animals: there are monkey boys, wolf girls, gazelle boys and even an ostrich boy. Click on the child’s name to read more about that child. The information available varies greatly from child to child. Where the name is in bold, there is a considerable amount of information here. Authenticity: Are any of these stories true? The evidence for many is virtually non-existent. Some, such as The Lobo Girl of Devil’s River are quite possibly merely folk tales. In The Mother Wolf, the final chapter of his PhD thesis, Paul Williams questions whether any child has really been raised by animals. However, in May 2005, a nursing dog did retrieve an abandoned human baby and carry it to its litter of puppies. In The Wolf Children: Fact or Fantasy?, Charles MacLean sets out to discover whether the best-known case of wolf children, that of Kamala and Amala, is true or a complete hoax. Animal characteristics: Many children who’ve lived with animals te
