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Such children lack the basics of primary and secondary socialization. [1] The term is used to refer to children who have suffered severe abuse or trauma before being abandoned or running away. They are sometimes the subjects of folklore and legends, often portrayed as having been raised by animals. While there are many cases of children being ...
Malaya was born in the village of Nova Blahovishchenka in Hornostaivka Raion, Kherson Oblast, of the Ukrainian SSR.According to doctors and medical records, she was a normal child at birth, [3] but was later neglected by her alcoholic father at age three, and she lived surrounded by dogs.
Genie was the last, and also second surviving, of four children born to parents living in Arcadia, California.Her father worked in a factory as a flight mechanic during World War II and continued in aviation afterward, and her mother, who was around 20 years younger and from an Oklahoma farming family, had come to Southern California as a teenager with family friends who were fleeing the Dust ...
Victor of Aveyron (French: Victor de l'Aveyron; c. 1788 – 1828) was a French feral child who was found around the age of 9. Not only is he considered one of the most famous feral children, but his case is also the most documented case of a feral child. [1]
Feral children, children who have lived from a young age without human contact, appear in mythological and fictional works, usually as human characters who have been raised by animals. Often their dual heritage is a benefit to them, protecting them from the corrupting influence of human society , such as in Tarzan .
Jane Yolen's book, Children of the Wolf, is a fictionalized account of the story for young adult readers. Jane Yolen and Heidi E.Y. Stemple's book, History Mystery: The Wolf Girls, is a children's non-fiction book about the account. Lord Robert Baden-Powell gives a short account of the story in Chapter 6 of his 1940 book, More Sketches of Kenya
Ivan Mishukov was born in Reutov on 6 May 1992. When he was four, he left his home to escape his mother and her alcoholic boyfriend. Ivan gained the dogs' trust by providing them with food, and in return, he was protected by the pack. Eventually, he was made pack leader. [1] [2]
Institute for Primate Studies in Oklahoma, raised by Maurice K. Temerlin and Jane Temerlin Lucy (1964–1987) [ 1 ] was a chimpanzee owned by the Institute for Primate Studies in Oklahoma and raised by Maurice K. Temerlin , a psychotherapist and professor at the University of Oklahoma , and his wife, Jane.