Tippi, a Mogli de verdade. / The real Mowgli

A garota Tippi Degre, nascida e criada na África, junto a animais selvagens, foi apelidada de a "Mogli da vida real."

Seu 'irmão" era um elefante, o melhor amigo um leopeardo, e seu playground a selva africana.

Nascida em Windhoek, Namíbia, wm 1990, Tippi Benjamine Okanti Degre viveu com seus pais franceses, os fotógrafos da Natureza Sylvie Robert e Alain Degre.

Os três viajaram por toda a África em uma experiência única.

"Ela tem uma ligação especial com animais", diz a mãe, e conviveu com estes enormes bichos sem medo; usando sua imaginação e inocência, conquistou a amizade do grande elefante africano "Abu". Agora com 18 anos, Tippi está estudando na França, numa selva de concreto.

Her "brother" was an elephant, her best friend a leopard and her playground the African bush. Tippi Degre has been labelled the 'real-life Mowgli' .

Born in Windhoek, Namibia in 1990, Tippi Benjamine Okanti Degre lived with her French parents, wildlife photographers Sylvie Robert and Alain Degre. The three of them travelled extensively through Africa on a unique and incredible adventure .

She showed an unusual bond between man and beast. Sylvie, Tippi's mother, explains: "She was in the mindset of these animals. She believed the animals were her size and her friends.

She was using her imagination to live in these different conditions" Using her innocence and imagination, the young 'Mowgli' befriended one of the giants of the animal kingdom, Abu the African elephant.

Now aged 18, Tippi passed her Baccalaureate and entered La Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris where she'll spend two years of cinema studies at the Lyceum.

Tippi is facing a different jungle; the concrete kind She had no fear," says Sylvie. "She did not realise she was not the same size as Abu the elephant. She would look into its eyes and speak to him"