Sometimes, extraordinary circumstances cause children to become isolated in the wilderness for years without a human caregiver. This is a common subject of legend —Romulus and Remus, Mowgli, Tarzan.

Researchers have often studied the effects of nature versus nurture on human development. But nothing puts those theories to the test like these documented cases of children being raised by animals.

WHEN seven-year-old Oxana was discovered living in a dog kennel, authorities were horrified by the appalling conditions her alcoholic parents had left her to live in. But when the young girl crawled ...

In a remote Ukrainian village in 1983, a girl named Oxana Malaya was born into a life far from ordinary. From the very beginning, her life was marked by tragedy and abandonment. At just three years ...

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The shocking story of an eight-year-old Thai boy who resorted to barking after being raised by dogs recently went viral. The boy, discovered in a squalid hut in Uttaradit province this month, ...

This is 23-year-old Oxana Malaya reverting to behaviour she learnt as a young child when she was brought up by a pack of dogs on a rundown farm in the village of Novaya Blagoveschenka, in the Ukraine.