The Russian Bird-Boy


Age: 7
Date: 2008
Location: Kirovsky, Volgograd, Russia
Animals: Raised as a pet bird.



Apparently this boy was raised by his mother in a tiny-two room apartment surrounded by bird cages. Confined in this apartment since birth, he never learned to speak. Instead, he chirps like a bird.

The boy was fed and cared for by his mother, but was never spoken to. After being rescued from his home in Kirovsky, Volgograd, Russia by social workers, he was taken into care.