Syrian Gazelle Boy: Case Study
Wild Peter
The first really famous feral child Wild peter was described as “a naked, brownish, black creature”. He was captured near Helpenson in Hanover, Germany in 1724, when he was about 12. He climbed trees with ease, lived off plants and seemed incapable of speech. He refused bread, Preferring to strip the bark from green twigs and suck on the sap; but he eventually learnt to eat fruit and vegetables.
He was presented at court in Hanover to George I and was then taken to England, Where he was studied by doctors and psychologist’s. He went on to spend 68 years in society yet never learnt to say anything except “Peter” and “King George”. However his hearing and smell were said to be particularly acute.
The Syrian Gazelle Boy
Jean-Claude
Auger, and anthropologist from the Basque country was travelling alone across the Spanish Sahara(Rio de Oro)in 1960 when he met some Nemadi normand, who told him about a wild child a day’s journey away. The next day Jean followed the nomads’ directions and came across a naked child “galloping in gigantic bounds among a long cavalcade of white gazelles”. The boy walked on all floors, but occasionally stood upright gait, suggesting to Auger that he was abandoned/lost about seven or eight months, having already learnt to stand. He habitatually twitched his muscles, scalp, nose and ears, much like the rest of the heard, in response to the slightest noise. He would eat desert roots with his teeth. He appeared a Herbivore apart from the occasional agama lizard or worm when plant life was lacking. In 1966 and unsuccessful attempt was made to catch the boy in a net suspended from a helicopter; unlike most of the feral children of whom we have records, the gazelle boy was never removed from his wild companions.
Leopard Boy
Unlike most accounts of feral children leopard boy didn’t run away from home he was however stolen from his parents by a leopardess in North Cachar Hills near Assam in about 1912, three years later recovered and identified. “At the time the child ran on all floors almost as fast as an adult man can run, whilst dodging in and out of bushes and other obstacles he was much cleverer and much quicker. His knees had hard callosities on them and his toes were retained upright almost at a right angles to his instep. His hands feet and toes were covered in very tough horny skin. When first caught he bit and fought with everyone and any village fowl such as chickens which came within his reach were seized torn to pieces and eaten with extraordinary rapidity.
The first really famous feral child Wild peter was described as “a naked, brownish, black creature”. He was captured near Helpenson in Hanover, Germany in 1724, when he was about 12. He climbed trees with ease, lived off plants and seemed incapable of speech. He refused bread, Preferring to strip the bark from green twigs and suck on the sap; but he eventually learnt to eat fruit and vegetables.
He was presented at court in Hanover to George I and was then taken to England, Where he was studied by doctors and psychologist’s. He went on to spend 68 years in society yet never learnt to say anything except “Peter” and “King George”. However his hearing and smell were said to be particularly acute.
The Syrian Gazelle Boy
Jean-Claude
Auger, and anthropologist from the Basque country was travelling alone across the Spanish Sahara(Rio de Oro)in 1960 when he met some Nemadi normand, who told him about a wild child a day’s journey away. The next day Jean followed the nomads’ directions and came across a naked child “galloping in gigantic bounds among a long cavalcade of white gazelles”. The boy walked on all floors, but occasionally stood upright gait, suggesting to Auger that he was abandoned/lost about seven or eight months, having already learnt to stand. He habitatually twitched his muscles, scalp, nose and ears, much like the rest of the heard, in response to the slightest noise. He would eat desert roots with his teeth. He appeared a Herbivore apart from the occasional agama lizard or worm when plant life was lacking. In 1966 and unsuccessful attempt was made to catch the boy in a net suspended from a helicopter; unlike most of the feral children of whom we have records, the gazelle boy was never removed from his wild companions.
Leopard Boy
Unlike most accounts of feral children leopard boy didn’t run away from home he was however stolen from his parents by a leopardess in North Cachar Hills near Assam in about 1912, three years later recovered and identified. “At the time the child ran on all floors almost as fast as an adult man can run, whilst dodging in and out of bushes and other obstacles he was much cleverer and much quicker. His knees had hard callosities on them and his toes were retained upright almost at a right angles to his instep. His hands feet and toes were covered in very tough horny skin. When first caught he bit and fought with everyone and any village fowl such as chickens which came within his reach were seized torn to pieces and eaten with extraordinary rapidity.