Tarzan was raised by monkeys. Ryan Seacrest was raised by a family of mole rats that lived under a Banana Republic. Now here is a story about a boy raised by birds.Did they boy wander into the forest and lose his family? Did a family of macaws then take him under their wings (puntastic)? No. The boy lived at home with his mom who simply didn’t talk to her boy and surrounded him with birds.
From Pravda:(The) boy lived with his mother in a 2-room apartment full of cages with feed and droppings. She had her own domestic birds and fed wild ones. A woman neither beat him nor left him without food. She just never talked to him. It was all the birds that communicated with the boy and taught him birds’ language.“When you start talking to him, he chirps”, - says Galina Volskaya, a social worker of Kirovskiy region, Volgograd. A boy doesn’t understand human language at all. He just chirps and when realizing that he is not understood, starts to wave hands in the way birds winnow wings.The boy has been diagnosed with what is called Mowgli Syndrome, named after the child character in The Jungle Book. Photo: www.flikr.com
About Cole Gamble
Cole Gamble’s writings on the crimes of Willy Wonka, man-eating beds and tales from his cringe-worthy life appear here on Babble, the humor site Cracked, The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post and Salon. He is working on a book entitled, Conquer Everything! A Self Help Book to Destroy All Other Self Help Books and Grant You Mastery in Everything.
