But despite showing almost no human traits, he managed to make a human friend. Apparently, in the orphanage, there was another feral child who also grew up with animals. Since both boys grew up in wildlife, they had a difficult time relating to humans and that probably was the reason why they managed to form this distinct bond between one another. Father Erhardt noted that “a strange bond of sympathy attached these two boys together, and the elder one first taught the younger to drink out of a cup.”