If you are a parent, you will not allow your child to be near wild animals. But Tippi’s case is special, and she had an uncommon upbringing.
She has spent her first 10 years traveling through Africa with her parents, French photographers Sylvie Roert and Alan Degre, and her parents documented her adventures.
A book, titled The Real-Life Mowgli, after Rudyard Kipling’s hero in The Jungle Book, has been re-released, providing an insight inside her amazing first decade.
Tippi, at the age of six, sits with J&B, two tame adult leopards she met in Namibia during her amazing childhood.
Tippi was seen by her mother sipping her bottle amid an elephant herd in Botswana when she was just one and a half years old.
Tipi’s upbringing was remarkable since she traveled widely over Africa with Cindy the baboon when she was six years old in Namibia.
Tippi has been dubbed the “real life Mowgli” on South Africa’s Sea Bird Island, after Rudyard Kipling’s hero from The Jungle Book.
Tippi, a six-year-old elephant, with Abu, a 34-year-old elephant, in Botswana’s Okavango Swamps. After becoming acquainted with the enormous animal, she referred to him as her “brother.”
In this photo, Tippi is 6 years old when her mother photographs her with a meerkat climbing on her in Namibia.
Tippi had an amazing childhood. When she was six, she met a baby cheetah in Namibia, and her parents took her on a lot of trips around Africa.
Tippi was six years old when her mother captured this image of her riding on top of elephant Abu’s head in Botswana.
A six-year-old child plays with two meerkats in a stunning photograph captured in Namibia.
While most youngsters might be terrified by the sight of Abu, a 34-year-old elephant, she seemed completely at ease in Botswana.
Tippi, the daughter of two French photographers, is seen in South Africa riding on the back of Linda, an ostrich that has been tamed.
A little girl, aged six at the time of the photograph, is shown holding a rock python in Namibia.
At the age of six with two members of the San Bushmen in northern Namibia when she was six years old.
Tippi’s first 10 years are chronicled in a book that includes photographs taken by her parents.