In Origins, Lena believes she spent her early years in the jungle being
raised by apes, which begs the question, are there any real cases of children being raised by animals?
The basics:
Raised by apes — but now living as a civilized British aristocrat — Lord Greystoke (Skarsgard) returns to his roots (and vines) when the ape - man's jungle home is threatened by colonial exploitation.
So being
raised by apes, becoming the king of the jungle, that's all in the past.
To wide - eyed Westerners in the mid-20th century, it was an exciting, exotic tale of a muscle - bound British lord
raised by apes to tame the jungle that is now dreadfully antiquated, a relic born of naïve British imperialism and lionized tales of the white man's burden.
Disney animates the classic story penned by Edgar Rice Burroughs, bringing to life the boy who was
raised by apes.
Chicago born author Edgar Rice Burroughs, in reading pulp magazines circa early 1900's, felt he could easily produce better material and subsequently came up with a story of a white orphan boy,
raised by apes, who grows up to become king of the jungle.
He was
raised by apes in the jungle, or more specifically a female ape by the name of Kala.
Not exact matches
Later on we also see Clayton as a young boy being
raised by the female
ape that found him and saved him from being killed
by the male
apes, or one specific
ape that is racist towards human beings it seems.
He is taken in
by a female
ape and
raised somewhat as one of their own.
In that film, Caesar was
raised by a circus owner (Ricardo Montalban) and became the Che Guevara / Malcom X / Black Panther-esque leader of
apes who were turned into slaves
by humans.
That's because he was
raised in captivity
by Davis Okoye (Dwayne Johnson), an
ape - whisperer stationed in Rwanda where he heads an anti-poaching unit dedicated to the preservation of endangered species.
Adapted from Edgar Rice Burroughs» popular stories, it is the story of human child orphaned in the jungles of Africa and found and
raised by a family of
apes.
Meeting Chief Mbonga (Djimon Hounsou) after a massive loss of life to his own men, Rom is spared death and promised the diamonds on condition that he bring the Chief a gift — Tarzan, a man who was
raised from a baby
by apes in the jungles of the Congo.