Piece of News THE SUN (newspaper)

The birth of these twins have been printed and shown by many newspapers. Here you can see what was said about these brothers who were born.

Their names are Ryan and Leo and when they arrived they were an extra surprise for their parents.

For one twin to be black and one to be white is so rare that is thought to be a one in a million event. Anyway, it hasn't been the first time the world has lived something like this.

Her mother, Florence, hails from Ghana (West Africa) while their father, Stephan, is German. They said that the most important thing is they were healthy and the different colouring of the babies was surprising, one more reason to smile and be happy.

As you can imagine, the children caused a sensation at the Hospital, the doctor who treated children and mother confirmed that in twenty years of practice it was the first time he saw something like this.

People says the babies have revealed different personalities. The white one (Ryan) is defined as "spirit" while his twin brother (Leo) is calm.

They have got an eighteen-year-old brother.

Questionnaire:

1. Have you heard about this event?

2. Is "race" an obvious factor (think they are twin brothers!) in those children?

THE WOLF GIRLS of Midnapore (West Bengal, India)

One of the most famous cases of wild children is, at the same time, an exception. Amala and Kamala were two girls found in Midnapore, in West Bengal (India) in 1920. They were living in a wolves's den when a missioner called J.A.L. Singh was informed by a native who was terrified about the existence of a "kind of gosht" in the forest and it needed an exorcism. When he Singh was trying to solve the mystery, he found two starving girls. the mother wolf defended them as if they were her own wolf cub. The wolf was killed by native people and the two girls, Amala and Kamala (3 and 6 years old) were taken to civilization.
It was supposed they were not real sisters (because of the difference of age), and there is one hypothesis which says that the wolf took them from anywhere at different times.
They didn't feel like humans and didn't allow other humans to touch, caress or just be near them.

They both were absolutely aggresive: they yelped, bit everything and everyone... and seemed to feel no human emotions, as they didn't smile, cry or give out any understandable sound in any human language.

Physically, their bodies, seemed to have suffered a sort of adaptation. for example, they had strong jaws and sharped teeth. The girls had their sight adapted to darkness and there was a frightening bright in their eyes.

They were sent to an orphanage and the other girls who lived there were really frightened of them. They couldn't developed the language or any communicative skills. Only one year after, the little Amala died, and it is said that her "big" sister cried for the first time. Her expression of pain was howling and howling, and the situation was really frustrating for the people who lived with her.

After this chapter, Kamala started a slight progression in communicative skills. She had a little notion of quantity and she learnt about forty words referring to objects of daily life of vital importance. Anyway, whe could never develop a language properly.

In 1929 she died because of the typhoid fever. She was buried with her sister.