Tippi Degre grew up amongst some of the country's most dangerous animals, echoing the adventures of Rudyard Kipling's fictional character in The Jungle Book. For 10 years her "brother" was an elephant, her best friend was a leopard, and her playground was the African desert.
While Mowgli was possibly the son of an Indian woodcutter, and was raised by a pack of wolves, Tippi had a nomadic upbringing, living in tented camps in the African desert. The family spent 10 years travelling in a 4x4 vehicle in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa.
The daughter of French filmmakers and wildlife photographers, Alain Degre and Sylvie Robert, Tippi was named after Tippi Hedren, the actress who starred in Alfred Hitchcock's 'The Birds'.
"She was born and raised until the age of 10 totally in the wild," said her mother.
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