REARED BY WOLVES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 171, 21 July 1928, Page 11 (Supplement)

REARED BY WOLVES.

• The old legend that Romulus and Remus were reared by a she-wolf is not no extravaganti a mytli as it appears, judging by the made by a medical man wli© has lived many years in India. "Thchs are quite a ijn ruber of instances,'' he said, "of native children being brought up l>y wolves. Several of these 'wolf children,' as they are called, have -been captured, and in every instance have bepn found to have lost nearly all their human characteristics. In | erne case a 'wolf boy' was discovered and captured by a soldier while riding along the banks of a river in Northern India. The creature ran '©h all fours and was only caught after a stiff chase and a fight. He was kept for several days g village, but- all that eould be got from him were angry snarls and barks. He would rush at other children and attempt to bite them. Ho ate ravenously nrefetred raw meat and crunched bones like a dog. He growled if human beings approached him at meal times, kit would share Ms food with dogs or