00:01In the district of Bulandahar, which is in India, bordering Nepal, there is a rather dense forest
00:07wild. In that forest there is a cave, where a group of hunters went in pursuit
00:13of a pack of wolves. But when they get to the bottom and the animals have already fled, what happens is
00:19they find in front, growling and gnashing his sharp teeth, it is not a little wolf, no, it is a child.
00:26It's a Saturday in February 1897. The hunters catch him with difficulty and take him to the orphanage.
00:33of the mission of Sicandra, where the missionaries give him a name, Sannichar, which in Hindi means
00:39Saturday, exactly, and a nickname, Dina, okay. And then what do we do? Dina is a child, she'll be six, seven
00:48years.
00:49The missionaries try to educate him, but it's not easy. He walks on all fours, can't stand clothes, and
00:54He only eats raw meat, refusing everything else. He doesn't interact with other children and doesn't
01:00He speaks, howls, or growls, precisely, like a wolf. Because at an important moment in his development
01:06cerebral, such as early childhood, when language and behavior are formed
01:12social and environmental experiences have a fundamental importance, Dina did not find himself interacting
01:19with humans, but with wolves. He was probably lost or abandoned. Alone and defenseless.
01:26he integrated into a pack of wolves, who welcomed and protected him and he learned from them how
01:31face
01:31life. He is not the only one of those who are called feral children, the wild boys, who
01:38They survive and thrive in environments far from human communities. The most famous is Victor, made famous by the movies.
01:46by French director François Truffaut in the film The Wild Child. Dina, after much insistence,
01:53he adapts to walking on two legs, even if uncertain, he accepts putting himself on something,
01:58he stops eating only raw meat, but otherwise nothing, he doesn't interact and above all he doesn't speak.
02:06There is a character who is said to be inspired by Dina, the wife of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book,
02:12made even more famous by Disney, as often happens. Here is Mowgli, the man-cub raised
02:18from the wolves, at a certain point he hears the call of human nature and reaches the village from which he had
02:24sent away as a child. This doesn't happen to Dina, he doesn't feel that call and perhaps, seen from a certain
02:32From his point of view, he's not entirely wrong. At the mission, Dina earns a name, learns to walk,
02:39to cover himself, but he also discovers something else, cigarettes. He becomes a heavy smoker and this
02:45contributes to ruin his lungs until he dies of tuberculosis in 1895, at the age of 35. And this
02:54It makes you think, because perhaps his staying like this didn't depend so much on a limitation as on a choice.
03:01Between humans and wolves, Dina, at least at the beginning, had chosen wolves and, given what he has
03:07success,
03:08he wouldn't have been entirely wrong.
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