Bird Boy Found in Russia
TO Russia and meeting with social worker Galina Volskaya who has discovered a boy who can only communicate with birds.
Says Volskaya: “When you start talking to him, he chirps.”
In a two-bedroom apartment in Kirovsky, Volgograd, with bird mess littering the floor, the 7-year-old boy lives surrounded by bird cages.
Pravda reports that authorities believe the boy is suffering from Mowgli syndrome, after the Jungle Book character who is raised by wild animals.
Reports Pravda: “(his mother) had her own domestic birds and fed wild ones. (She) neither beat him nor left him without food. She just never talked to him. It was all the birds that communicated with the boy and taught him birds’ language.
“He just chirps and when realising that he is not understood, and starts to wave hands in the way birds winnow wings.”
And flies?
February 29th, 2008 at 12:38 am
and does children’s parties in exchange for cuttlefish
February 29th, 2008 at 1:25 am
Could come in handy later “Chatting up the birds!”
Remember the TV series ??…………………”BUDGIE”
February 29th, 2008 at 3:06 am
Grande Finale, this is true. “Allo my lovely Polly want a cracker?”
February 29th, 2008 at 5:46 am
I wonder where his father is? He might have been a chirp of the old block as we say in England!
February 29th, 2008 at 6:23 am
Why wouldn’t the mother speak to him? This is cruel and very unusual.
February 29th, 2008 at 9:33 am
A wow at parties for leading the inevetable ‘Birdie Song’ and ‘Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep’.
February 29th, 2008 at 9:43 am
The family of the late Percy Edwards were unavailable for comment
February 29th, 2008 at 10:40 am
5 Sally.
Cat got her tongue.
February 29th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
It astonishes me that this seems to be something people are ready to joke about. It’s clear that the mother must be mentally ill, and the child is now seriously scarred on a psychological level for the rest of his life. Am I missing the punchline here?
March 2nd, 2008 at 9:09 pm
That picture is a joke ^ ^
You shouldn’t expect people brainwashed by modern media and cultural bullcrappo to get the extroardinarity of a situation like this. They’re too busy with bling-bling, psudo-politics, and killing games :p
March 4th, 2008 at 1:32 am
In a world where a crazy bird-lady is abandoned by society, and in turn abandons her own son to such an extent that he attacks his own reflection using an imaginary beak, one can either laugh or cry. And I’m all cried out for the day on the Palestine issue.