The 'Wolf Boy of Sierra Morena' Dies at Age 80, Who Lived 12 Years Among Animals
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At the age of 6 his father sold him to an angry man, who taught him to survive on the mountain; he lived with wolves and had a complicated process of integration into conventional life until finding his place in a village in Ourense Read
He spent his childhood and adolescence isolated in Sierra Morena, where he learned to survive alongside a pack of wolves.
Abandoned by his family, he grew up without human contact until he was found by the Civil Guard and forcibly reintegrated into society.
The man, known as the «wolf child», lived more than a decade isolated in the Sierra de Córdoba next to a pack of wolves
Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja, known as the 'wolf child of Sierra Morena' has died at 80 years of age in Ourense, province where he had found his home in Rante (San Cibrao das Viñas).Andaluz de Añora (Córdoba), spent more than 12 years of his childhood and youth living in the bush, among wild animals.His story was marked by a very hard childhood since after his mother's death, his father left with another woman and, when Marcos was 6 years old, sold …
His father sold him to a 6-year-old goatherd, lived with wild animals, and his story took him to both literature and cinema.
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