(AP)Amid a troop of monkeys in the Katraniaghat forest range in northern India roamed a naked human girl, playing with the primates as if she were one of them. When police approached her, the monkeys surrounded the girl, protecting her as one of their own, and attacking an officer as the girl screeched at him, the New Indian Express reported this week. Numerous stories of feral children like the young girl exist both in legend and in documented cases in history. On her website, Ochota wrote about her experiences meeting these former feral children and learning their stories. But these “strange, feral children are also often a source of shame and secrecy within a family or community,” she wrote.

Source: Washington Post April 07, 2017 08:20 UTC