Strange tragedy of children living with wild animals

The pictures are elaborately staged in the latest project of renowned photographer Julia Fullerton-Batten, rebuilding the bizarre story, but it is true that some children are nurtured by babies , grew up like wild animals and did not speak human language.

The mystery of children living with wild animals

Oxana Malaya in Ukraine in 1991

The above image reconstructs the case of the little girl Oxana Malaya, Ukrainian. According to photographer Fullerton-Batten, Oxana was found living with dogs in a dog stall in 1991. She was 8 years old and lived with the dogs for almost 6 years.

Her parents were drug addicts and left one small child on the street one night. Looking for warmth, the 3-year-old girl crawled into the farm's captive dog and curled up among hybrid dogs - the action probably saved her life. Until it was found by others, Malaya ran on all four limbs, always sticking out her tongue in a gasp, baring her teeth and barking. Because of the lack of interaction with humans, she only knows the words "yes" and "no".

Oxana currently lives and cares for pets in a hospital in Odessa, southern Ukraine.

Shamdeo in India in 1972

Boy Shamdeo was discovered in a forest in India in 1972, about 4 years old. When found, the boy is playing with the baby wolves. I own dark black skin, sharpened teeth, long-fingered nails that grow like hooks, messy hair and countless scars on the palms, elbows and knees.

Shamdeo likes to hunt chickens, eat soil and crave for blood. The boy is very close to the wolves. When brought from the forest to nurture between the human world, Shamdeo still could not speak, but learned some sign language and died in 1985.

Marina Chapman in Colombia in 1959

The story of a Colombian woman named Marina Chapman is the inspiration for photographer Fullerton-Batten to start a project about children raised by wild animals. Fullerton-Batten said: "Marina was kidnapped in a remote village in South America in 1954, at the age of 5. The kidnappers then left her in the middle of the deep forest. Marina lived with a family. Capuchin monkeys for 5 years until they were discovered by hunters During the time of the forest's survival, she ate the berries, roots and bananas dropped by the monkeys, sleeping in the holes in the trees and traveling by 4 limbs like monkeys In fact, not the monkeys provided food for Marina, but she had to learn how to survive, mimic the behavior of monkeys to make them get used to her, catch louse in my hair and treat me like a monkey ".

Marina is living happily in Yorkshire, England and her husband and 2 daughters. According to fake photographer Fullerton-Batten, because Marina's story is extremely unusual, many people did not believe her. They X-rayed her entire body and examined the bones to determine if she was really malnourished, and finally concluded that it might have happened.

John Ssebunya in Uganda in 1991

John Ssebunya fled his home in 1988 when he was 3 years old, after seeing his father kill his mother. The boy fled into the forest and lived with the monkeys. He was found in 1991, about 6 years old and brought into an orphanage. At that time, the boy was bottle-filled with all his knees due to walking like a monkey. John learned to speak and then joined the children's choir of African Gems.

Madina in Russia in 2013

Madina has been living with dogs since birth until she was 3 years old. She shared food, played with the dogs and slept with them when it was cold in the winter. When the social protection workers found Madina in 2013, she was in a naked state, walking with all four limbs and growling like a dog.

"Madina's father left shortly after the daughter was born. Her mother, 23, then became an alcoholic, often drunk and not enough to take care of her . Mother The child even sat at the dining table while the daughter nibbled on the bone on the floor with the dogs, "photographer Fullerton-Batten said.

Madina was later included in the social protection center. The doctors discovered, she was completely healthy physically and mentally despite what she had been through.

Sujit Kumar in Fiji in 1978

According to Fullerton-Batten, the Sujit boy was about 8 years old when he was found clattering, flapping his arms and behaving like a chicken in the middle of the road in Fiji in 1978. The boy used his mouth to pick up food, lying down. crouched on a chicken-like chair to sleep and always use your tongue to make clattering sounds. Sujit's parents locked the children in a chicken coop. Her mother committed suicide, while her father was killed. Sujit's grandfather took responsibility for raising him but still locked him in the chicken coop.

Kumar is currently raised by Elizabeth Clayton, who rescues her grandfather's home, in a humanitarian center for children.

Ivan Mishukov in Russia in 1998

Ivan left home at age 4, collecting food pieces for a pack of wild dogs and eventually became their leader. The boy lived on the street for 2 years, before being discovered and taken to an orphanage.