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Kamala and Amala

Feral Case Study

Prognosis

Should they have been taken out of their environment?

No, they shouldn't have been taken out of their environment.

  • Kamala lived too long with wolves to be able to easily adapt to human society
  • Amala is younger and would've been able to adapt better because she isn't fully developed and is very impressionable at 18 months old
  • However, she succumbed to disease one year after being captured and could have possible survived longer with the wolves

Amala

  • Became sick with diarrhoea and dysentry, died in September 1921
  • Died before being able to develop speech

Kamala

  • Became sick with typhoid and died in 1929
  • Had the mind of a 3 and a half year old at age 16
  • Was able to learn some language (40 words)

The recovery for both children was unsuccessful.

Background

Conditions and Appearance

Behaviours

The End

Skills and Language Learned

  • They were believed to be found by wolves or abandoned
  • Lived in wolf pack lair
  • Had matted hair, hunched over on four legs
  • Appeared to be lithe and healthy

Kamala

  • Taught how to walk
  • Was housetrained
  • Developed a vocabulary of 40 words by age 16 (9 years of training)
  • Would only partially say words instead of saying the entire word
  • Could form short sentences

Amala

  • Was able to make babbling and cooing noises
  • Couldn't speak a language and couldn't communicate in words
  • Frightened kids by showing teeth
  • Refused to wear clothing and tore up any clothing put on them
  • Would only eat raw mean
  • Slept curled up together; growled and twitched in their sleep
  • Woke up after the moon rose
  • Howled
  • Walked on all fours
  • Never smiled or showed interest in human company
  • Senses were wolf-like (sharp eyes, smelling meat)
  • Sharp Hearing
  • Two girls named Kamala and Amala who were raised by wolves
  • Kamala was 8 years old and Amala was 1 and a half years old
  • They were found by a man named Joseph Singh in India in the year 1920
  • He first saw them living in a cage by a local orphanage
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