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Riding a five-ton elephant, whom she called ‘my brother', chilling with a cheetah or hugging a giant bullfrog as if it were a Teddy bear.
The childhood of a French girl Tippi Degre sounds more like a newer version of Mowgli, rather than something real.
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A white child, she was born in Namibia to French wildlife photographer parents, and grew up in Africa.
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Tippi is now 23 years old, and the only child to wildlife photographer parents Sylvie Robert and Alain Degre, who published her photos in a book called Tippi of Africa.
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Tippi spent her whole childhood playing with wild animals including lion cubs, a mongoose, a snake, a cheetah, baby zebra, giraffes and crocodiles.
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"It was magical to be able to be free in this nature with this child. She was a very lucky little girl -she was born and raised until the age of 10 totally in the wild." said Sylvie.
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The little girl saw nothing unusual about her company.
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"I don't have friends here. Because I never see children. So the animals are my friends," she once said.
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