Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja was abandoned aged 7 and survived in the mountains. A wolf pack adopted and fed him and he ate the berried and roots animals did.
A man raised by wolves for 12 years says his life in human society was a failure and he wishes he could go live among the animals again. Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja was adopted by a pack when he was stranded in Spain's Sierra Morena mountain range aged seven.
He was found as a 19-year-old running around only able to communicate by grunting and brought back to civilisation.
'I only wrapped my feet up when they hurt because of the snow. I had such big calluses on my feet that kicking a rock was like kicking a ball,' he told El Pais.
But now the 72-year-old lives in a small, cold house in Rante, Galicia, with only a meager pension after a tough life among humans. Mr Pantoja said even since he was ripped from the cave he called home his life went downhill as he was never fully able to reintegrate.
He claimed to have been cheated and abused, exploited by bosses in the hospitality and construction industries, and left with nothing. He survived by observing which berries and root vegetables animals ate and was eventually fed by a mother wolf who later adopted him.
'After feeding her pups she threw me a piece of meat. I didn't want to touch it because I thought she was going to attack me, but she was pushing the meat with her nose,' he told the BBC in 2013.
Responses to "Man raised by wolves for 12 years wishes he could return to the wild"
I would love to have lived with wolves like that!!!
a movie should be made of this man and his wolves adns perhaps he could use the money to open a reserve to protect them and once again live with them!