Shock as Eight- year- old Girl Raised by Monkeys is Rescued from the Forest ( Photo)

A teenage girl brought up by monkeys , acts and
behaves like an animal has been rescued from a forest
in India.
Indian police are reviewing reports of missing children
to try to identify a girl who was found living in a forest
with a group of monkeys , AFP reports.
The little girl is said to be between 8 to 12 years old,
was unable to speak , was wearing no clothes and was
emaciated when she was discovered in January and
taken to a hospital in Bahraich, a town in Uttar Pradesh
state in northern India.
It was also gathered that the girl behaves like an
animal. Not only that , she runs on her arms and legs
and eating food off the floor with her mouth, said D . K .
Singh, chief medical superintendent of the government -
run hospital .
After treatment , she has begun walking normally and
eating with her hands .
“She is still not able to speak , but understands
whatever you tell her and even smiles , ” Singh said.
Some woodcutters spotted the girl roaming with
monkeys, police officer Dinesh Tripathi told The
Associated Press on Thursday . They alerted police.
“They said the girl was neykked and was very
comfortable in the company of monkeys. When they
tried to rescue the girl, they were chased away by the
monkeys, ” the officer said.
She was rescued later by a police officer in the
Katarniya Ghat forest range . “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.
He said police are trying to determine how the girl got
into the forest and who her parents are . She will be
sent to a home for juveniles until she is identified ,
Singh said .