Eloise
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I remember there were articles like this weekly in the National Enquirer when I was a kid. I have become so skeptical over my years.
Same.
I remember there were articles like this weekly in the National Enquirer when I was a kid. I have become so skeptical over my years.
There are true cases of feral children, i.e., children raised in the wild by wild animals. This link lists 14 cases:
http://emgn.com/entertainment/14-sh...f-feral-children-raised-amongst-wild-animals/
I hope that's okay to link. I do recognize some of the cases, including Genie and Victor (the wild boy of Aveyron). We learned about Victor in a Psych class I took for Special Education majors.
Here are a few more cases. It's amazing that this happens. It often speaks better of the wild animals than of the human parents!
https://www.smashinglists.com/10-feral-human-children-raised-by-animals/2/
Poor little girl. It really bothers me to see a room full of people staring at her photographing her. I would think she'd need a very small group caring for her and nurturing her in private.
JMO
At first I kinda thought the same thing.......why are there so many people standing around watching her every move ? Then I got to thinking, maybe there's some psychology at work here. If you notice, there appears to be not only adults in the room, but plenty of children as well. This may be an intended crash course and an attempt to convey to the girl that this is the species of animals that she should be hanging out with, because they are like her, unlike the monkeys. Basically, acclimating her back into constant contact with humans of all ages. Isolating her by having contact with grown adults and doctors, and only a handful at that, might make her re-entry into society more difficult.
I remember there were articles like this weekly in the National Enquirer when I was a kid. I have become so skeptical over my years.
https://www.soschildrensvillages.ca/girl-child-endangered-child-abandonment-indiaLast year, the Times of India reported that nine-in-ten of the 11 million abandoned children in India were girls. Most were doomed to never find homes, as little over 2,500 were adopted in 2009.
Girls are more likely to be abandoned, sex-selectively aborted or killed in stances of infanticide than are boys. This is rooted in a cultural bias against girls, whose dowries are costly, for one. The consequences of having an unusual number of missing girls is a skewed sex ratio. There are now only 914 females for every 1,000 males in India.
[video=youtube;aVVkVxbe00E]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVVkVxbe00E[/video]
In this video you can clearly see her hand movements and scratching.......pretty much just like a monkey would do.
I don't know how long she was out there in the jungle with them, but I would think at least 1/2 of her eight years, maybe even more.
I was able to view the video last night, but not today. They must have removed it.The video shows up as 'unavailable' for me. Maybe it's because I'm not in the US right now, or has it been removed from YouTube?
I wonder if the monkeys miss her, notice her absence, etc.
I wonder if the monkeys miss her, notice her absence, etc.
In the documentary segment on the boy in Africa who lived in the forest with monkeys from the time he was 4 until he was a teenager (IIRC, 17), the researcher concluded there was no emotional attachment between the 2 species. The monkeys only accepted the boy's presence but may have benefited from him in some way, while the boy ate whatever the monkeys discarded from their food supply.Me too. And I wonder if she misses them.
Appears to be more to this story than first reported:
http://www.newser.com/story/241022/indian-girl-found-in-forest-actually-not-raised-by-monkeys.html
Very interesting. One question I'm left with, if she was only there days why was she found nude? moo
Appears to be more to this story than first reported:
http://www.newser.com/story/241022/indian-girl-found-in-forest-actually-not-raised-by-monkeys.html
The video shows up as 'unavailable' for me. Maybe it's because I'm not in the US right now, or has it been removed from YouTube?
She may not have liked wearing clothes to begin with. I've worked with some intellectually disabled children and adults who will strip if given the chance.Very interesting. One question I'm left with, if she was only there days why was she found nude? moo