Crianças selvagens casos de torção mental de crianças levantadas por animais

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Crianças selvagens: casos de torção mental de crianças
levantadas por animais
Muitas vezes ouvimos falar de animais selvagens, mas com que frequência você ouve sobre crianças
selvagens? As crianças selvagens foram isoladas do contato humano desde muito jovem e crescem
selvagens, às vezes sendo cuidadas por animais. Em outros casos, crianças selvagens foram
confinadas por pessoas (geralmente seus próprios pais), mas aqui só discutiremos alguns casos de
crianças criadas por animais na natureza.
Esteja preparado para algumas histórias incríveis e bizarras.
Marina Chapman – Vendida, Abandonada e Criada pelos Macacos
Imagem via Terra em Transição.
Marina Chapman é autora de um livro popular e atualmente vive em Bradford, Inglaterra. Se você não
soubesse nada sobre o passado dela, diria que ela é uma pessoa bastante normal, vivendo uma vida
normal. Mas seu livro, que é uma autobiografia, é tão incrível que a maioria dos editores se recusou a
publicá-lo, pensando que era uma mentira. Marina foi sequestrada com apenas cinco anos de idade,
provavelmente por resgate, mas foi abandonada na selva colombiana.
Ela teve a sorte de ser adotada por um grupo de macacos-prego, que são conhecidos por aceitar
crianças humanas em seus grupos. Os animais ensinaram a jovem Marina a pegar pássaros e coelhos
com as próprias mãos para que ela pudesse sobreviver e cuidar de si mesma. Depois de cinco anos, ela
foi “resgatada” por caçadores, que a encontraram e venderam-na para um bordel. Nesse ponto, ela não
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tinha capacidades de linguagem humana. Ela fugiu do bordel, viveu nas ruas e tornou-se escrava de
uma família da máfia. Através de algumas conexões que ela fez e alguma pura sorte, ela conseguiu
chegar a Bradford como babá, onde conheceu seu futuro marido e estabeleceu uma família.
A história é tão incrível que muitas pessoas duvidaram disso. No entanto, Carlos Conde, professor na
Colômbia, afirmou que fez um teste usando as reações de Chapman a fotos de sua família adotiva e
fotos de macacos-prego que provaram que Chapman estava dizendo a verdade. Além disso, outro
estudo científico sobre raios-X dos ossos das pernas de Marina mostrou claramente as linhas de Harris;
essas linhas indicam que ela sofria de desnutrição grave quando criança, provavelmente durante o
tempo de permanência com os capuchinhos, quando sua dieta era muito limitada. A National Geographic
criou o documentário Woman Raised By Monkeys em 2013.
Ostrich Boy – Cuidados com os pássaros
Sidi Mohamed, o “menino de ostrich”, contou sua incrível história em 1945. Aos cinco ou seis anos, ele
se afastou de sua família norte-africana, encontrou um ninho de avestruz com filhotes e fez amizade
com os avestruzes-mãe. Eles cuidaram dele, ensinando-o a correr rápido e o abrigando, cada um
estendendo uma asa sobre ele. Aos 12 anos, ele foi levado de volta para seus pais por caçadores de
avestruz montados. Casou-se e teve filhos. Durante seu tempo com os avestruzes, ele estava comendo
principalmente grama.
Uma criança mantida viva por gatos
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Resgatada: A criança é levada pela policial Alicia Lorena Lindgvist.
A polícia argentina descobriu um menino abandonado de 1 ano cercado por oito gatos selvagens em
2008. Eles observaram que, à medida que se aproximavam da criança, os gatos se tornaram muito
protetores e até agressivos. A polícia descobriu que os gatos estavam mantendo a criança viva durante
o inverno rigoroso, constantemente lambendo-o e ficando em cima dele, como um cobertor vivo.
Para tornar as coisas ainda mais tocantes, até lhe trouxeram pedaços de comida, que não comeriam e
salvariam para ele. Se não fosse pelos gatos, a criança não teria passado pelo inverno. O menino, que
estava morando com os gatos por “vários dias”, aparentemente se separou de seu pai sem-teto,
enquanto o último estava coletando restos para vender do que outras pessoas jogaram fora. Mais tarde,
o homem disse à polícia que os gatos sempre tinham sido protetores de seu filho. Eu não conseguia
descobrir nada sobre seu paradeiro atual, mas espero que eles pelo menos tenham um teto sobre suas
cabeças.
O simples fato de que esses gatos selvagens eram capazes de conceder compaixão a um membro de
uma espécie não relacionada deve levantar alguns grandes pontos de interrogação para aqueles que
defendem a matança de populações selvagens.
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O cão do Chile
Talvez uma história ainda mais triste seja a de “Dog Boy”, que agora tem 24 anos. Abandolado por sua
mãe de 16 anos, ele passou algum tempo no sistema, mas quando tinha 10 ou 11 anos, foi adotado por
um grupo de cães que vivem em uma caverna perto de um porto chileno. Os cães eram como sua
família – ele sugava leite de uma cadela na mochila e procuravam comida juntos, principalmente de
lixeiras no porto.
Quando a polícia o encontrou, ele tentou correr, pulando desesperadamente na água. Um policial pulou
e o recuperou. O menino sofria de depressão intensa, ele era muito agressivo e latiu – não mostrando
sinais de comunicação humana, embora mais tarde tenha sido revelado que ele conhecia alguns
espanhóis. Ele também podia desenhar e aparentemente estava ciente de que ele era humano, mas
ainda queria se reunir com sua família canina. Eu nem tenho certeza se eles o ajudaram, tirando-o da
matilha.
Ng Chhaidy – 38 anos vivendo na selva
Ng Chhaidy (em inglês). Imagem via A1.
Talvez um dos casos mais espetaculares de crianças selvagens – e adultos – seja Ng Chhaidy. Ela
desapareceu na selva aos 4 anos e só foi vista após 38 anos, em 2012. As comunidades locais estavam
ouvindo rumores sobre uma garota da selva há anos, mas sempre descartavam isso como fofoca. Ela
desapareceu na índia, perto da fronteira com Mianmar, e mais tarde foi encontrada em Mianmar, vivendo
nua em um cemitério.
But what’s perhaps even more remarkable is that, for someone who lived in the jungle for basically all her
life, she’s very human-like. She can talk (in a simple fashion), she can learn new words, and she is not
particularly shy about human interaction. Her family hasn’t allowed any medical or psychological
attention, so there is no clear evaluation of her state.
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Lyokha The Wolf Boy of Moscow
In December 2007, Russian authorities brought in a boy who was living with wolves. He looked to be
around 10 but may have actually been much older. He didn’t appear to speak any Russian and exhibited
wolf-like behavior. Some villagers found him in a lair made from leaves in freezing temperatures, fairly
close to Moscow. The authorities brought him in, gave him a shower, and cut his nails, but he escaped
from the facility in 24 hours. Nothing is known of his whereabouts presently.
Andrei Tolstyk – Raised by a Guard Dog
Andrei Tolstyk was born with hearing and speaking deficiencies. This was enough for his parents to
abandon him in a remote area of Siberia, close to Lake Baikal. However, he was lucky enough to be
adopted by a guard dog who taught him how to survive… like a guard dog. Tolstyk had strong teeth,
sniffed the food before eating it, was afraid of people and generally behaved very erratically. It took him
two weeks before he began to walk on two legs.
Saturday Mthiyane – A Monkey More Than a Man
A boy of around five was found after spending about a year in the company of monkeys in Kwazulu-
Natal, South Africa, in 1987.In 2005, at the age of 17, he was still behaving like a monkey. He didn’t talk
at all, walked like a monkey, refused to eat cooked food and never played with other children, though he
still exhibited affection towards monkeys.
I actually wonder if leaving him with the monkeys would have been the better choice, here.
The Baby Hospital – Again, More Monkey Than Man
This seven-year-old girl was named Baby Hospital by an Italian missionary who found her in Sierra
Leone. She had apparently been brought up by apes or monkeys. She was never really able to integrate
into society and continued to act like a monkey. She spent a great deal of time crying and was overall
very depressed. Again, although I’m clearly not experienced in this topic, maybe trying to integrate her
into human society wasn’t the best idea.
Ivan Mishukov – The 6-Year-Old Alpha Dog
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/wolf-boy-found-in-russian_n_77922
https://www.zmescience.com/science/exploring-baikal-the-worlds-deepest-and-oldest-lake/
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/abandoned-boy-said-to-have-been-raised-by-a-dog/YMPNKXXVEYTQWL5TW7YKOF2W54/
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Ivan. Image via Our Hen House.
Born in 1992, Ivan Mishukov lived with wolves between the age of 4 and 6 years old. He ran away from
home to escape his mother’s alcoholic and abusive boyfriend and entered the ranks of a feral dog
pack. 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.
He was taken in by the police three times and subsequently escaped. He was ultimately arrested after he
left a lot of food outside of a restaurant. He relearned Russian fairly quickly.
But the thing is, it was pointless to try to explain to him that human society is better than living in the dog
pack – because clearly for him, it wasn’t. He was living in a dog pack, where they loved and appreciated
him – and he clearly felt that. The winters in Moscow are extremely harsh, and the dogs helped him get
through the severe weather and difficult conditions. But the most extraordinary part of this case is that the
dogs must have taught him love and emotional support – arguably, it means they civilized him.
Ramachandra – The Human Amphibian
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In yet another tragic case, Ramachandra was born sometime around 1960, in India. He was first reported
in 1973 and was “rescued” in 1979. He was living an amphibian-like lifestyle, literally living in crocodile-
infested rivers where he caught and ate raw fish. He was only partially able to adapt to a human lifestyle,
preferring to eat raw food and hang out along rivers.
In 1982, he approached a woman, probably sexually aroused and unaware of the human taboos. The
woman felt threatened by him and threw boiling water on him, ultimately killing him.
Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja – A Life as a Wolf, a Life as a Man
Image via BBC.
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Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja is a noted feral child. He was reportedly sold to a hermetic goat herder at the
age of seven but soon found himself alone in the mountains. Having suffered years of beatings from his
stepmother, he preferred the solitude of the mountains to human company. His story is a very special
one, not only because he lived for 12 years in the wild with the wolves and other animals, but also
because he spent a lot of time trying to integrate back into society (he is over 70 years old today), and
was only partly successful.
“The animals guided me as to what to eat. Whatever they ate, I ate,” he says. “The wild boars
ate tubers buried under the soil. They found them because they smelled them. When they
were digging the soil looking for them, I threw a stone at them – they would run away and
then I would steal the tubers.”
He started to establish a special relationship with some animals, especially with a family of wolves.
“One day I went into a cave and started to play with wolf cubs that lived there and I fell
asleep. Later, the mother brought food for them and I woke up. She saw me and looked
fiercely at me. The wolf started to rip the meat apart. A cub got close to me and I tried to steal
his food, because I was hungry as well. The mother pawed at me. I backed off. After feeding
her pups she threw me a piece of meat. I didn’t want to touch it because I thought she was
going to attack me, but she was pushing the meat with her nose. I took it, ate it, and thought
she was going to bite me, but she put her tongue out, and started to lick me. After that, I was
one of the family.”
He also had a snake as a companion that followed him around and shared food with him. Bit by bit,
sounds and growls replaced his words, and he only felt good when he was surrounded by other
animals. He can still reproduce the sound of the deer, the fox, the aguililla (booted eagle) and several
other animals.
“Once they answered, I would be able to sleep because I knew they hadn’t abandoned me,”
he says.
Gabriel Janer Manila went on to write a Ph.D. thesis and a book about him. Marcos told Gabriel that the
scariest moment of his life was when he returned to society.
“Once he rented a small apartment and he showed it to me,” says Janer Manila. “The
bedroom had no bed or furniture, there were blankets all over the floor along with lots of
wrinkled sheets of magazine and newspapers, as if there had been an animal there. When I
saw that, I asked him if he wouldn’t be better sleeping in a bed? And he said: ‘No.'”
But the biggest problem was the noise – the ever-present noise we don’t even notice anymore in the city
was hell for Marcos.
Now, he seems happy – or at least content – with his place in society. He plays the harmonica and likes
his neighbors.
“Now I am accustomed to it, I’ll remain where I am.”
A few words…
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There are many cases of feral children being raised by or with animals, and more often than not it’s hard
to know the actual truth of what happened. Here, I’ve tried to present a few of the most representative
cases that have verifiable facts. There are many hoaxes floating around the internet – I’ve found at least
two hoaxes regarding “gazelle boys”, and there is also the famous hoax of Amala and Kamala, who were
used to raise funds for an orphanage.
It’s also important to note that all of these children found it hard to integrate into society, and it’s easy to
understand why. There is a critical age in which human language and interactions are developed, after
which it becomes much harder to develop these skills. Also, some of these individuals were never
actually able to re-integrate, and locking them up in a mental facility is not a solution – maybe we have to
look at other, alternative ways of developing a life for them.
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