Second Sekandra wolf boy

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Third Sultanpur wolf boy

Dina Sanichar

Found in a wolves' cave

Dina Sanichar, one of the boys who lived at the Sekandra orphanage, is usually assumed to have been mentally sub-normal. He was removed from a wolves' cave in 1867 when he was about six years old.

Captured by hunters

Dina Sanichar was discovered when hunters in the jungles of Bulandshahr were astonished to see a boy follow a wolf into her den, running on all fours. They smoked out the wolf and her companion and (as usual) shot the wolf.

Dina Sanichar's feral characteristics

Like so many other feral children, he initially exhibited all the habits of a wild animal, tearing off clothes and eating food from the ground. He was eventually weaned off raw meat onto cooked, but never did learn to speak. He apparently became addicted to tobacco. Dina Sanichar died in 1895.

Further reading

Sources include Valentine Ball's Jungle Life in India, and numerous letters, reports and newspaper articles. Much of this material, along with details of almost every recorded pre-1940 case, is in Wolf-Children and Feral Man by Singh and Zingg.