Meet Real Life Mowgli: A French Girl Who Spent 10 Years of her Childhood with African Animals

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Till today for us Mowgli was just limited to kids' story books but today we have a real life example, a girl named Tippi Degre who is known as real life Mowgli.

This girl grew up among different animals like elephants, leopards and more. For this little one, growing up with most dangerous animals was her reality for initial years of her life. The girl born in Namibia, lived with her mom and dad as they traveled through Africa. It was since then she started her life surrounded by animals befriending with them! “Her middle name is Okanti which means mongoose or meerkat and also happens to be the only animal to ever have bitten her.” Tippi Benjamine Okanti Degré is presently 27 years old girl and she is pursuing a degree in cinema. Now she is living in her home but by heart is still with animals.

“She missed the animals so much,” said her mom Sylvie...

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For initial years of Tippi Degre’s childhood, African desert was her her playground, "brother" was an elephant and her best friend was a leopard

Her mother says, “It was like having the biggest playground. We lived in a tent, completely in the wild, but she always woke up with the sun shining and her parents around her. She was very lucky.”

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She was born in Namibia

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She is the daughter of French filmmakers and wildlife photographers, Alain Degre and Sylvie Robert

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Tippi Degre’s mother says-
I have no regrets. We had lived with the Meerkats in the Kalahari desert for six years before Tippi was born. It was fantastic to have that to offer to a child compared to what I would be able to offer to one living in a city.