This Frenchman grew up like Mowgli, in African fauna

Tippi Degré, true character of the Jungle Book?

Tippi Degré is a 24-year-old French youth who has not had the same childhood as yours. No, she didn’t have video games, TV, computer or dolls. No, she did not have any friends called Thomas, Peter, Mary or Alexandra. She did not have a difficult childhood or absent parents either. Actually, her childhood was the coolest of all : she grew up until the age of 10 to climb on the back of a five-ton elephant she called “brother”, having fun with a cheetah or squeezing a giant toad as if it were a plush. Tippi’s childhood looks more like a recent version of Mowgli , rather than something real.

This child was born in Namibia from two parents photographers Alain Degré and Sylvie Robert and grew up in Africa. Tippi spent all his childhood in playing with wild animals like lions, a mangost, a snake, a cheetah, a zebra baby, giraffes and crocodiles. The little girl saw nothing unusual about this:

It was thanks to the activity of his parents, photographers, that Tippi was able to live such a childhood. Her mother, Sylvie, says: “It’s wonderful to have inculcated this to this child. She was a very lucky girl because she was born and grew up in wild life until she was 10. She spent more time with animals than with humans. She really thought they were all her friends. She was trying to live under their conditions. »

Her parents released a book entitled Tippi – My Book D’afrique in which they published photos .

What is more amazing in what you see here is the behaviour of young Tippi. This is it insouciance and this demeasured energy which allows him to have contact with animals the most dangerous but also the most inaccessible of the wild African nature. According to her parents, the animals never showed violence, the ostrich even avoiding running as if she were afraid that the child would fall from her back.

This life dreamed Tippi had to abandon her when her parents decided to return to France when she was 10 years old. She went to school every day. As you may doubt, the city is not its element. Tippi was not at his ease in civilized life and found no point in common with what she used to see and do. After two years, her parents decided to take her home courses . Today, 24 years old, Tippi Degré studied cinema at the Sorbonne University and even worked with the tigers of Fort Boyard . She remains discreet about her privacy, but some rumors say that she would have gotten a Namibian passport because she got herself always felt African in the soul thus giving a suite to the "Book of the Jungle" of modern times.

Here are some pictures of Tippi with his friends animals, and in a tribe:

Here is a documentary about the fascinating childhood of today’s Mowgli:

What does Tippi Degré inspire you, this girl who could have inspired the Jungle Book?

Source: Oddity Central