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The Story Of Tippi Degré: The Girl Who Was Raised In The Jungle

A Parent’s Choice

I know many parents would think Tippi’s mother, Sylvie, is insane! However, she had absolutely no regrets about how she decided to raise her child. “It was magical to be able to free in this nature with this child; she was a very lucky little girl – she was born and raised until the age of ten totally in the wild. It was just the three of us living in the wild with animals and not too many humans,” Sylvie told Telegraph.

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She went on to explain that Tippi’s daily life was playing with monkeys and making sure they didn’t steal her bottle. There were also multiple occasions, where as a baby, she would call her mother over and “point to an elephant eating from a palm tree and say ‘mummy, be quiet, we’re going to frighten him.”