Heart-warming pictures of the real life Mowgli, a girl who spent the first ten years of her life growing up in the African bush, have been released for the first time.
The magical images chronicle the life of Tippi Benjamine Okanti Degri, who was brought up with wild animals, just like Rudyard Kipling's hero did in The Jungle Book. Left: Tippi aged six, with young cheetah in Namibia, centre, being taught to use a bow and arrow in Namibia by an Bushmen of northern Namibia and right, playing with two meerkats. Living with her French parents, wildlife photographers Sylvie Robert and Alain Degri, the three of them travelled extensively through Africa on a unique and incredible trip.
The magical images chronicle the life of Tippi Benjamine Okanti Degri, who was brought up with wild animals, just like Rudyard Kipling's hero did in The Jungle Book.
The young child cradles a rock python snake
The images - in the relaunched book - 'Tippi: My Book of Africa' - show the young girl making friends with an elephant, who she calls her brother, and a leopard, her best friend.
Unique start: Tippi, aged one and a half drinking from her bottle among an elephant herd in Okavango Swamps, Botswana
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