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Nov 2018
28m 24s

Feral Children and the True Story Behind...

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What inspired Rudyard Kipling to write The Jungle Book? Join the guys as they explore the real-life, tragic stories of feral children abandoned by their human parents, adopted by animals and raised in the wild.

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