Could a real-life Mowgli exist? The science behind the fiction of The Jungle Book
It's been just five years since Disney's live-action The Jungle Book made nearly $1 billion, but the origin story of Rudyard Kipling's beloved tale hails from much further back in time. The animated film on which Jon Favreau's remake is based is of course much older, having been released in October 1967. And, the book on which that film is loosely based was published in 1894, at a time when tales of children living peacefully with animals seemed a little less unreal. It's a story, or collection of stories, about abandonment and found family, and it tickles the parts of our minds that are sti...