Surely you have seen the animated movie ‘The Jungle Book’ which is about a little stray human boy who was adopted by the animals of the Indian jungle. A boy who was treated like one of the pack and soon grew up as part of the family. He became friends with all the other wild animals in the Asian jungle.

There is a boy, also from India, who is very similar to the protagonist of the animated film, Mowgli . The little boy is called Samarth Bangari , he lives in Allapur, Karnataka, and dozens of wild langur monkeys come to visit him every day to play with him.

Samarth and the monkeys’ friendship began when he and his mother went to visit their grandmother in the town of Allapur. For some reason, the baby began to cry and to calm him down, his grandmother fed him jowar roti, a typical local bread that is very similar to Arabic bread because it is made without yeast.

The little boy was outside the house and offered a piece of bread to one of the monkeys that was hanging around the place. Showing the piece of jowar roti, the monkey came down from the tree where he was resting and received the bread. This is how more monkeys came together to receive bread from the baby and a great friendship was created.

“All (the monkeys) think he is special and they communicate with each other, and they can understand what they are saying,” says Malikarjuna Reddy, Samarth’s uncle.

The creature’s uncle has taken it upon himself to take him out of the house in the afternoons so that his nephew can play with his monkey friends, while his parents are working in the fields. The boy looks adorable surrounded by so many monkeys, but the relatives and other villagers have been surprised by the docile behavior of the monkeys with the baby. They are afraid that sooner or later they will hurt the child.

The fear of the adults gradually disappeared when the monkeys became more friendly with the little one. The adult monkeys took the smallest monkeys of the clan to play with the baby and everyone had fun. At no time has Samarth suffered a scratch caused by any of the primates.

Samarth has managed to have a special bond with the monkeys, in fact, the locals go to the house of the little one’s grandparents to see how he plays with the monkeys and take pictures of the unusual friendship.

The neighbors also tried to get another little one to join in the fun, but the monkeys ran away and others became somewhat violent in the presence of the other baby. These langurs really do have a connection to little Samarth.

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We can say that Samarth was integrated into the langur clan as Mowgli was adopted by the animals in the story.

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