Real Life "Mowgli-Girl" Was Raised by the Wild Animals of Africa

Bitten Once

After ten years of living amongst the African animals, you would think that Tippi would have an array of scars and stories. But amazingly, Tippi only had one bite encounter in all her time in Africa, and it was from an unexpected animal. Her first and only bite came from a meerkat. It is ironic because the meerkat is one of the smallest animals that she ever encountered, but also because Tippi’s middle name Okanti, which actually means meerkat…

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