Bird Boy Found in Russian Apartment

In Volograd, Russia authorites found a 7 year old boy whose mother had raised him on par with her 100's of domestic birds.
She did not physically or emotionally abuse the boy, but rather treated him exactly as though he were one of her winged pets.
However, she did not speak to him and the boy, having spent the majority of his life with the twitting sounds of many birds has apparently learned their language.
“When you start talking to him, he chirps”, says Galina Volskaya, a social worker in Volgograd.

When the boy realizes his human visitors cannot understand him, he flails his arms much in the manner that a bird would wave his wings.

He has spent most of his life living in a 2 room apartment full of cages and bird feces.

Authorites took the boy from his mother, who gave him up willingly, and he is now in a Russian asylum. He will soon be transferred to a center focusing on psychological care.
He is one of many children suffering from "Mowgli syndrome" taken from the a character in the Rudyard Kipling book, The Jungle Book. The story of a infant raised by wolves.

In recent times, however, children have been discovered living in the wild all across the world.

In the US, 2 girls were found having been raised by a pack of monkeys. Again in Russia, a 9 year old leads the head of a Wild Dog Tribe, and in Cambodia a 27 year old "Wild Woman" was found naked, living in the jungle.

*above photo by Timothy Cummings