Kids Who Were Raised By Animals

 Vanya Yudin

At the age of eight, young Vanya Yudin was found in a tiny apartment of Russia with plenty of birds in cages. Treated by his own mother as one of her pets, he turned to his fellow pet birds and learned to mimic the chirps and squawks. Being deprived of human interaction, he was unable to speak a single word when the authorities found him. Though he was never abused or starved by his mother, still the social services removed him from his mother’s custody. And he was sent for rehabilitation. His mother blew off his custody in 2008 and he was placed in a psychological care unit for recovery.