An 8-year-old girl was found living with
monkeys in a remote nature reserve in
Bahraich, northern India. The girl has now
been dubbed Mowgli 2.0 because of the
similarity of her story with the story of the
boy in The Jungle Book who was brought up
by wolves. 
The girl was discovered by a group of
woodcutters working in the area who then
alerted government officials and she was
rescued from the region near the Nepal
border. The girl did not seem happy about
being uprooted from the only home she
knows, she then screeched like a monkey,
which it was soon discovered is the only
way she knows how to communicate.
It was also discovered that the girl could not
walk like a human and instead moved on all
fours, the way animals do and she runs
away at the sight of humans. 
Authorities
say she seemed comfortable among the
apes at Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary,
close to the border with Nepal.
It has not been discovered who she is,
where she came from and how long she has
been in the wild but investigations are
ongoing already. Sub-inspector Suresh
Yadav was the one who rescued the girl
while he was on patrol two months ago.
When the girl was found, she was “naked
and was very comfortable in the company of
monkeys. When the woodcutters tried to
rescue the girl, they were chased away by
the monkeys,” Police officer Dinesh Tripathi
said.
Later, another police officer came to try to
rescue her but the monkeys fought for her.
“When he called the girl, the monkeys
attacked him but he was able to
rescue the girl. He sped away with
her in his police car while the
monkeys gave chase,” Tripathi said.
Inspector Ram Avtar Singh, from Motipur
station, in Bahraich, said:
“She was terrified of us, she could
not speak or hear us properly. She
was surrounded by three monkeys.
She had wounds on her body
specifically on her elbow and one on
her leg. She was wearing clothes but
not very dirty, it looks like she was
abandoned by her family. She looked
weak and was very hungry. We gave
her some food to eat. She looked
miserable. If we hadn’t rescued her
she could have been eaten by other
animals.”
Doctors at the government-run hospital she
was taken to say she is still prone to bouts
of anger and violence while she does not
appear to understand any language. She is
also still frightened of humans and though
she has been taught to walk upright, she
still prefers to walk on all fours. However,
there has been an improvement from the
time when she first came in.At the initial
stage, she behaved like an animal, even to
the extent of eating her food off the floor.
Now she is able to eat with her hands.
Video footage of the girl in the hospital
showed her pour her food from the plate in
which she was served onto the mattress
from where she ate, but that’s an
improvement from eating from the floor.
“She is still not able to speak, but
understands whatever you tell her
and even smiles,” said D.K. Singh,
chief medical superintendent of the
hospital.
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