Posted on 04/07/2017 4:47:04 PM PDT by JoeProBono
LUCKNOW: Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli came alive in the jungles of Katraniyaghat in Bahraich district, 200 km from Lucknow, when local policemen rescued an eight-year-old girl from a troop of monkeys recently.
The cops had to face resistance from the simians before they could rescue the girl.
Mowgli, the man-cub protagonist of Kipling's ‘The Jungle Book’ was reared by wolves’ pack in 'Seeonee hills', now in MP.
The girl was spotted when a police party of Motinagar range in Bahariach headed by sub-inspector Suresh Yadav was on routine night patrol in the woods of Katarniyaghat.
“We spotted her playing among apes. As we tried to go near the girl, the monkeys surrounded her and some of them pounced on us,” says sub-inspector Yadav. Even the girl also resisted the cops and screeched at them.
The girl, without clothes, was significantly comfortable among the apes. She, however, was finally taken out by the police party and immediately admitted to the district hospital.
There is no lead about the family or parents of the girl who can neither talk nor can comprehend any language.
“She behaves like an ape and screams loudly if doctors try to reach out to her,” says Dr DK Singh, chief medical superintendent, Bahraich District Hospital adding that her behaviour is making her treatment difficult.
However, he says that the girl, who has been in the hospital for over two months now, is showing definite improvement in her medical condition.
The girl’s presence in the district hospital has evoked curiosity among the locals.
“As she sees anyone looking at her even from a distance, she starts growling,” says Shiraz, who is one among those visiting the strange patient in the district hospital regularly.
“When she was brought to the hospital, she had wounds all over her body. Her nails and hair were unkempt like monkeys,” says superintendent of police (City) Dinesh Tripathi.
“From her behaviour, it appears that she had been with the monkeys since birth. I visit her personally time-to-time,” Tripathi adds.
Sharing other details, Dr Singh says that the girl even walks, eats and sits like monkeys.
“Sometimes she walks on feet and suddenly comes down on all four,” says the doctor. Even while eating, the girl spreads the eatables on bed and doesn’t use hands to put them in her mouth. “She uses her mouth to pick the eatables,” says a nurse of Bahraich district hospital.
“The treatment is proving to be a difficult task for the doctors as she does not understand anything and makes noises and faces like monkeys, and attacks the doctors when they approach her,” says a junior doctor.
According to the hospital staff attending to her, the girl gets scared on seeing human beings and gets violent very often on seeing people looking at her.
Poor little thing.
This is going to take some real adjustment.
By the way, Mowgli was raised by wolves, but he spent some time living with the monkeys, too.
Fun story. A hoax no doubt, but fun nonetheless.
Poor little girl.
I remember reading, around 45-50 years ago, reading in EBONY or JET magazine, about a black girl found living with apes in Africa.
One of the men I worked with bought the magazine just for this article.
I remember the last paragraph stating that the girl looked pregnant and they would keep everyone informed as to updates.
Never saw an update.
Yes, it was EBONY or JET magazine.
Maybe they should have left her in place, and several of the police could have joined the simians.
He was raised by the wolves but the monkeys kidnapped him and wouldn’t give him back, but he was much smarter than the monkeys and it didn’t take him long to get away.
At least it was India, and not Chicago.
How have that gotten her to keep clothes on?
My GS has autism, he is 7 and it took 5 years to get him to keep closes on in public. It’s almost impossible to keep them on him at home.
This has to be fake news.
They talk about all her wounds but never menther missing finger.ion
Or someone abandoned a retarded little girl in the forest and she ended up staying with the only creatures that cared for her.
She had to have been with them a while if they defended her.
I must have been raised by a pack of squirrels.
Everyone says I’m nuts.
Well, they did take her away from her family and friends and put her in confinement. She is surely not happy.
It appears to be a case of a neonate being left in the forest because she was not male.
Obviously retarded children in India have value as tools for use by beggars. They will use their own or they will buy them from families. Especially profitable are the microcephalics.
There’s nothing new here.
Many years ago the secularist, humanist, liberal atheists taught a handful of Chimpanzees sign language in an effort to prove they were almost or equal to Man.
They did learn to sign pretty well but to the discomfort of their trainers the chimps had nothing meaningful to say.
They still spent their time hurling their own S88t at everyone.
Nothing new.
“Many years ago the secularist, humanist, liberal atheists taught a handful of Chimpanzees sign language in an effort to prove they were almost or equal to Man.”
I used to see one of those chimps being pushed around in a stroller back in the late 70s. Some wealthy character here in OC had hired post grad psychology students to teach the chimp to sign. I don’t know what ever became of this experiment. The same neighborhood had another family whose daughter owned an elephant. Not sure if the elephant ever learned to sign either...
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