VIDEO: This Girl Was Adopted by Monkeys!
Police rescued a girl living among primates in a nature reserve in Uttar Pradesh. The 8-year-old girl was immediately transferred to a hospital. She didn’t know how to speak and she was imitating a primate’s walk.
When they found her, she was surrounded by a group of monkeys, with whom she was playing. Everything seems to indicate that the girl was abandoned by her parents.
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Bhullan Ali said the eight-year-old girl, who was found in a wildlife sanctuary in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, went missing from her home in Jaunpur’s Kamalpur village in March 2016, The Indian Express reported.
Earlier reports suggested the girl had been abandoned by her parents and had allegedly been raised by a colony of monkeys in the jungles of Katerniaghat.
Now officials said it is impossible the child was raised by monkeys for years in a sanctuary which is visited by thousands of people.
The young girl, who has now been named Ehasas, has since been taken in a rehabilitation centre where she is showing considerable improvement in her health, officials said.
She is being treated for having low haemoglobin.
The hospital have refused to hand over Ehasas to Ali until he can prove he is the girl’s uncle
President of the NGO that runs the hospital SS Dhapolo told The Indian Express: “The girl did not respond even a bit on seeing him.
“We will not give her to anyone without a DNA test to confirm their claim.”
Indian officials initially believed the eight-year-old was left in the woods because of her physical and mental disabilities in a heartbreaking story of neglect.
One local women’s right campaigner says the fact she was a girl would have played heavily into the decision to abandon her.
Dr Ranjana Kumari added: “Some families value girls less than boys. They would rather get rid of the girl than spend money on her.”
The young girl was found living with a troop of monkeys and is unable to speak or walk like a human.
She screeches to communicate and walks on all fours, and is said to be terrified of humans, after she was rescued by cops in Bahraich, India.
She was discovered by sub-inspector Suresh Yadav while on routine patrol in Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary, close to the Nepal border, reports the Times of India.
It is not known how long she has been living with the animals, but she was reportedly fully clothed when discovered.
Last year a gran from Bradford told how she had been brought up by monkeys in the jungle in South America after being ditched by child traffickers.
Another girl, Oxana Malaya, was rescued from a dog kennel after six years being raised by dogs – running on all fours and panting with her tongue out.
The story strikes incredible similarities with The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling’s famous tale of young human boy Mowgli who is raised by wolves.
When Yadav tried to rescue the girl, who seemed comfortable living with the monkeys, she and the animals screeched at him.
After much difficulty, cops were able to rescue the girl and she was taken to hospital.