Kind-of like The Jungle Book,
but sad: a 7-year-old boy in Russia who was recently taken into the
custody of social workers can only communicate in chirps, because his
mother raised him among her pet birds and never spoke to him.
Reports
in Russian media claim the child, suffering from "Mowgli syndrome", was
found in a tiny two-room apartment that appeared to double as an
aviary, filled with cages containing dozens of birds, bird feed and
bird droppings.
Social worker Galina Volskaya, who helped rescue
the "bird-boy" from his home in Kirovsky, Volgograd, told Russian
newspaper Pravda that he was treated like another pet by his
31-year-old mother.
Because she never spoke to him, Ms Volskaya explained, the boy's only communication was with the birds he was surrounded by.
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