#50: The Real-Life “Mowgli”
In 1867, hunters in India encountered a 6-year-old boy living among wolves. The child couldn’t speak, walk upright, or communicate like a human — he barked, growled, and moved on all fours. His early years had been shaped entirely by the animals that adopted him.
Rudyard Kipling later drew inspiration from these accounts when writing The Jungle Book. While the story is fictionalized, its roots lie in real historical cases of feral children — rare, haunting, and tragic glimpses into what happens when human development unfolds outside society.
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