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  • does anyone know about or have a link to an interview or something recent with Tippi??

  • I love you, TIPPI♥

  • I wish somebody would publish this documentary on youtube!

  • When I was her age I had a Nintendo.

  • People who care for and interact with exotics in America are criticized. Throw a little girl into the wild wrestling a leopard and yanking a monkey's tail and all of the sudden it's sooo incredible and magical to all these dumb fucks.

  • This child is gifted ....event the parents can see it ...its rare but its real

  • I would like to be Tippi! Amazing!

  • The song is: Porcelain by Moby

  • In Icelandic "Tippi" Means Penis :p

  • @XundoHD

    Well, the dutch word "kunt" means can in dutch.

    Kunt in English.

    So with a language filter I can't type "kunt" when talking dutch :p.

  • @XundoHD Wow. The first word Icelanders thought about when they looked on their penises was "tippi"? Now I finally understand why I heard so many jokes about Iceland and compensation the last time.. Well, at least they have their own "tippi" museum...

  • @buxxi90 lol it is pretty much what kids say well the original word is Limur :)

  • ... y el becerro y el leoncillo crinado y el animal bien alimentado todos juntos, y un simple mucha chito sera guía de ellos Isaias 11:6

  • She's awesome! :)

  • Jesus fucking christ. Amazing.

  • como se llama la cancion

  • I think the music is from Moby. I am not 100% certain though.

  • @Wendy6012 yes it is. Moby rules!

  • from whome is the background music ? I like this song. Tippi is really a person who loves Africa with its nature and animals... respect for this kind of life.

  • Tippi is a Wonderful example of Love & Respect 2wards all Kingdoms on Earth (Mineral - Vegetal- Animal- Human..)

    HER MESSAGE OF AWARENESS : Disconnect from FAKE VIRTUAL Materialistic Selfish ABUSED MATRIX...

    RECONNECT WITH TRUTH: ONLY THE GENUINE WITH OPEN HEART CAN OPEN MAGICAL GATES +Dimensions & Connections with SPIRIT OF NATURE..& healthyly Flow with their own Nature!;)))

    TO LOVE &THE GENUINE BE THE GLORY!;)*

  • HaHa Tippi Means a Penis on icelandic haha penis and cheeetah hahaha

  • truly soul-churning. brings tears of reverence to my eyes, as i KNOW i can relate, in

    EVERY WAY, and there's not one person on this planet who is any different at the core of their beings, and yet, look at our world... peace

  • She was so sweet!!

    Her life was so facinating!!

  • such a beautiful soul

  • 14 Klingons

  • when i first looked at some pictures, i thought they were photoshopped. but this is truly amazing.

  • what a beautiful example of kindness and consciousness with the world. being able to connect with animals like that is a gift!

  • our very own real life female tarzan..

  • wowwwww :)

  • Are the animals completely wild?...

    they look cute but the leopard ...

    anyway Tippi is really brave..

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  • Disclaimer: No African parent would ever let their kid near a wild animal. Even those African tribes that kept their traditional ways of life don't frolic around with wild animals, and never did. This is a purely Western (read "white") thing to do. And there's nothing 'African' about it at all. So this whole documentary/movie is a load of bull crap. "Bridging a gap"? WTF is that supposed to mean?

    That being said, it's amazing that she was able to live with wild animals...that is all.

  • @myuzeefreak What he/she said.

  • @myuzeefreak Where in the trailer does it say this is a traditional African lifestyle? It's about a girl raised by French parents in an African setting. Maybe some youtube viewers have some misconceptions about the film and leave ridiculous comments, but I'm not sure how the film itself is entirely bullshit because of their stupidity.

  • @MyNameIsBret Maybe you should listen to the words in the trailer again, or read the comments below. Apparently Tippi "rediscovers Africa". Now unless Namibia encompasses all 54 African countries, I don't see how she was able to do that. And rediscovering implies previous discovery. She wasn't the first person to ever set foot on the African continent, so there is no way she could have discovered Africa in the first place. Also, by writing "African setting", you justify my comment.

  • @myuzeefreak - It is referring to her own personal rediscovering of Africa. Never said anything about her being the first person to set foot in Africa. Why must you twist things? SInce I discovered a pond at the back my new property, it doesn't imply I am the first one to ever see the pond. Please...go look up the word discover, hopefully you can understand it's meaning without twisting it to suit your sense of all-knowing superiority.

  • @MyNameIsBret There are so many things wrong with this documentary it's hard to know where to even start criticizing it. If you can't see them, then you still have your "Africa-the-Dark-Continent" goggles on and there's no way you will understand anything unless you take them off.

    If so many viewers have misconceptions about the film, what does that say about the film itself? Ruminate on that.

  • @myuzeefreak Okay, you're taking the trailer's words way too literally. Of course it's not traditional African living-style. OF COURSE most mothers wouldn't allow their children to take that risk, the point is is that Tippi had a very unique life style there and it made her aware in other ways most people never become. It's supposed to portray her as kind, gentle, and close to nature... None of which you seem to be or understand.

  • @rachaelswiftt My post was in response to the many people who left comments on here who seemed completely clueless, i.e the kind of person you are describing me as, which I am not. This was also a response to some of the stereotypes that the documentary does not bluntly state, but are REALLY obvious to any African who has ever come into contact with ignorant white people. And if you speak French, you will notice the slight discrepancies between what the narrator says and what Tippi herself says.

  • where can i purchase this documentary?

  • wtf happened with that panther at 1:24 ???

  • @FlashFWD it's just playing. My cat does that all the time, lots of cats do. Of course, my cat couldn't tear me to shreds on a whim, though they say that all cats, no matter how small, think themselves tigers.

  • @FlashFWD it's a leoppard

  • @DakarNorth really? I thought just an elephant

    gdfa

  • ohhh já svo nice tippi

  • Love it

  • Love&Respect  ♥

  • this is beautiful.

  • @lisypoo12

    That's a very stupid thing to say. I own the book she wrote, when she was 10, and she explained cleasrly that her parents had complete confidence in the animals, and that she was aware it could be dangerous. She is sure to have a gift to speak to animals. She was raised surrounded by a variety of different things thatn you probably were, that is all. You should respect that.

  • @groovychick25 Wow, all a trailer needs to do is play some 'whimsical' music and your brain just shuts the hell down. Yet, if this girl's parents were in the news for having their girl killed for some romantic photography op, you'd want her head on a spike. People piss me off for not being able to think for themselves. You should learn to respect people who can.

  • @lisypoo12 Yeah your right, she should be playing violent play station games instead and watching the brain numbing idiot box for a dose of more violent. How stupid can some people be...ooh...I'm not taking about Tipp's mother, I'm taking about you.

  • Excepcional, memorável, fantástica.

  • The Unamazing Jimmy: If such purity and simplicity to you is discarded as appealing only to "old" men - you are just another lost person (without a soul) barging headlong through life ... without any connection to our Beloved Mother Earth ...

  • I Love-Love-Love Tippi ... a true "African Gem" ...

  • @kykdaar

    I am a Tippi fan too..

    Hi from Hungary,europe:)

  • Divine

  • only old men watch this. WEEEEIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRDD!!!!!­!

  • @ImAsianIchigo Are you an old man? I'm not, WEEEIIIRRRD!!!

    I came across this on a raw vegan forum, never knew this person existed, very interesting.

  • @TheAmazingJimmy No im not an old man.

  • LOVE tippi ! who loves the animals !

  • please for the song and thanks to all urgent

  • @UnLock94 Moby: Porcelain

  • mhh i see this video has been posted 3 years ago.. But I couldnt find anything related to this movie (Tippi - Bridging the gap to africa from philip selkirk) .. so.. what about the actual film/documentary? someone knows? does it even exist?

  • gr8  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!

  • ferukt

    des mädchen

  • ij,ik heb nog nooit zoon wonder gezien.

    groet jelle reneman smile

  • I thought the movie Sheena was purely fictional, then I see this...

    O_o

  • That is amazing

  • Tippy is wonderful

  • She's so small!

  • the cheetah could kill her within a second.

  • It is actually a leopard..cheetah is not a dangerous animal.

  • Typical westerners,they will go to the most remote area of other countries to look and fell better about themselves,I think ther should be a LAW that prosecutes misrepresentation of an area because that has a real economical effect on the people.

  • Does anyone know the name of the music/musician playing in the background ?  I think I even have it somewhere on CD and can't seem to recall the title!! Thanks :)

  • its Moby - Procelain

  • 1. agree with psikidpower

    2. What exactly is her mission. It better not be to try and give charities to those people. They've lived many years perfectly fine the way the do. I hope the don't spread their technology, and other garbage there, and destroy those people's culture.

  • @yotapact

    the himba who she is pictured with are one of the few perhaps only tribe in nambia they have remained completely faithful to their traditions/way of life.They are a massive tourist drawcard because they are proud of their traditions and retain them.I have ancestry from a neighbouring tribe the damara who have not retained that way of life as much.

  • I'm jealous....i'd rather live freely without any possessions then live in this technology filled world full of laziness. grrr

  • @PsiKidPower: I suggest that you use this "natural" need and live times without all the complications and disturbances of postmodern life. thats what i do and i give now courses in primitive survival so that others too can deeply immerge into the real world which in my oppinnion is that we all are essentiallly the same: that means to me nothing and everything.

  • @PsiKidPower Would you really? What's stopping you?

  • @hummer myself. lol

  • @PsiKidPower And YouTube probably. And Facebook. And computers. And toilets. Face it, you don't really. It's just a romantic idea. Those who would really rather get out of this world would just do it instead of daydreaming about it.

  • @hummer ehhhh At this point, i could care less. I love life regardless. :)

  • @PsiKidPower Don't misunderstand me, I'm not criticizing you for that. Not many people born into the world of technology can just abandon everything and choose to live in the wild like that and that's still okay. I just thought your comment was a little careless. :/

  • @PsiKidPower Right on....grrrr

  • Too commercial, too fake!

  • Пример судьбы неповторимой, уникальной, волшебной.

    Такое впечатление, что у девочки внутри звезда.

  • I really hate the french you have become liberal scum Napoleon and de Gaulle are rolling over in their grave may your country become a Islamic homeland you are screwed up

  • dude, chill, who care's? the kid's cute.

  • why is this kid filthy trash? what is your fucking problem?

  • I would never have my young daughter that close to no cheetah, you don't see African parents doing that shit....

  • I guess some parents found another way here to merchandise their own child. This is no fairytale - it`s one more sad story about human narcissism.

  • You are so right !!! "Narcissism' is the right word.

    "Her mission..." is it a sect or some sectarian group she belongs to ?

  • ROFL. ^-^

  • yoo that Jaguar and Elephant thing was sickkk!

  • krass...ich habe die Bücher früher geliebt...so idyllisch !

  • Wow! Reminds me of Anastasia of Ringing Cedars.

    Such inspirational books! She lives totally naturally and the bear and the wolf take care of her child. The eagle carries her baby high into the sky to give him 'a bird's eye view' on the world.

    Series of 9 books to heal our Earth. Please read Anastasia. We can turn it all around simply by reconnecting to nature and finding our true place in it all.

    Magically Wondrous.

    Peace to All. (Thank you beautiful Tippi)

  • lol yes Anastasia is amazing

  • nice thought but not possible.we fucked up to much.but than agian one day we will start over again

  • OMG....this is great

  • Check out when she's digging like a mongoose at 0:29 that's amazing!! This is beautiful, go Tippi!

  • :) cool

  • Tippi a tout compris !

  • Tippi a tout compris !

  • I give praise and thanks to Tippi's Mother, for it was her mother who made the ultimate choice to allow her daughter to express this part of herself. If more mothers on earth could trust the divine power of the female spirit, which is the closest to the animal spirit. So I praise her Mother and now Tippi if she becomes a mother can see what inner strength her matriarchal ancestral line is made of for her own future daughters to help the earth.

  • whoa.. thats deep  *sob* i love how you said that, so true

  • @SHAMANDREAMKEEPER

    Blah blah blah,

    sounds like some form of this feminism-esoteric crap.

    Stop making up spiritual traditions as you girls see fit.

    At least follow a "real" form of shamanism if you wish to call yourself so.

  • @Zerkezhi I am a guy, you only pick on females i see.... that makes you weak man.

  • @DeathShamans

    That's because there's no guy here talking about ancient cultures and spiritual male power.

    And I'm not picking on the females here, but a person who belongs to the New Age Esoteric stuff,

    that she is a she is only of secondary importance. (and that is,

    that a lot of the New Age Esoteric crap-movement is female, and that many of them find ideas of spiritual superiority to men appealing)

    Raping of spiritual traditions I call it

    You're doing great for the equality cause, by the way.

  • @DeathShamans

    But now that I started, I don't want to disappoint you.

    So I'll start picking on the complete New Age movement if you wish.

    According to your channel and name I take the liberty of categorizing you in that group as well.

    Most of that Esoteric crap is something I like to call "Creation of New Religion" or "Yo man, I pick pieces of traditional paths because I'm bored and because I like single stuff and not the whole stuff so I build my own mix together"

    fyi I'm an atheist.

  • @DeathShamans

    I mean it's like your whole group thinks that the ultimate secret to life and the universe has to be to their liking and so they can just pick whatever they like, ripping it apart from completely everything else from where the idea originated from.

    Comparable to that whole christian crap.

    Taking the stuff they like and ignoring the rest of the bible.

    You guys and those guys are making even less sense than the whole senseless area of spirituality and religion.

  • @SHAMANDREAMKEEPER I wish I could do this for my daughter:)

  • no one's gonna believe me but i used to know that girl actually when we were younger!:)

    k im telling u, when i was like 5 or 4, i went to Madagascar, because of my dad's work and she also went to madagascar for a photoshoot and then, we met and i think my parents are still friends with hers...

    i bible that i'm not lying.

    and we went to the restaurant and she started to climb like in the trees and it was really awkward

  • wow really? what was it like meeting her? I knew about her show back in 2004 when i was 14. I was a big and touched by her great love for animals

  • Well actually she was pretty fun, when she first came at my house, there's was a wall, like it's hard to explain but our dog was behind the wall, and she climbed and it was really funny, my mom was freaked out, haha and she told a secret to my sister and she didn't want to tell me about it... But i found out the secret actually haha

  • lol i love climbing all sorts of things too; walls, trees, ancient sites...

    so whats the secret?

    XD

  • LOL idk about the secret, my sister didn't tell me.

  • but you said you found out about it XD nevermind. nice story, hopefully you get to meet her again someday

  • Well, yes, actually I found out about it, but without my sister, she's not the one who told me :)

  • I was crying when I look at this. I knew her several years ago and her friendship with Africa and wild animals are so touching!

  • Fantastic

  • Bravo Tippi! Tu es source d'inspiration.

    Thank you Tippi! You are source of inspiration.

  • the music is by Moby, "the beach" soundtrack.

  • Those aren't wild animals right? That's impossible.

  • cool what is the song(s) used in this vid can someone tell me?:P

  • thank u tippi

  • how is her now?

  • she's like 17 or 16, i guess, i used to know her when i was younger! no lie

  • This is amazing, very touching. It gives me the creeps to read that there are too many people out there that watch too much US TV. You have a higher chance getting shot at a 7-11 than getting eaten by a wild animal, as long as you respect their presence. I wish we were all a little more in touch with nature.

  • Thank you Tippi,

    God bless you

    and God bless Africa !

  • GREAT!

  • beautiful.....

  • Am I the only one a mite disturbed by jungle cats playing with her like a tasty morsel?

  • eeehm.. yes?.....

  • Anyway what other may think she give me a good feeling.

  • wow...so impressive...I liked the girl...very special...

  • why suddenly is this girl getting all this attention? the story is genuine, it is documented. But we never see Tippi, there are only images of her as a child...seems like someone's exploiting her story to sell the book.

  • I think there's an even bigger gap. The one that separates nature from man.

  • @ewout007 So ignorant you are....

    Really, how do you have enough braincell to even figure out how to turn on your computer?

  • vet

  • she's cool :D

  • it's an albino

  • lol lol lol lol lol lo lol lol lol

  • This is very dangerous. Humans are not animals like this. It allways will get out of control in one moment. Humans can't even succesfully communicate whit other humans..

  • There is probably hunderds of black children like this, but as a white girl she gets the attention. Very sad.

  • Typically dutch comment....always looking for the negative side of things!!! If you could understand what they say you would hear that she could be a link between europe and africa, help us understand africa.... for a young black kid from Africa it would be more difficult as there might be a culture gap...thats why the movie is called BRIDGING the gap to Africa!! So before you give your negative Telegraaf-style nagging comment try to listen well and appreciate this short movie instead!

  • Let's look at the positives untill the child gets eaten alive like the men that lived with the bears. I'm sure the child will link a bridge between Africa and Europe. "NOT"

  • IS THERE A GAP MISSING TO AFRICA? hahhahaa nice dude

  • Saw Tippi on a documentary appearing to be a pretty disturbed person, unintegrated into the temporal world.  A solitary childhood, plus fame in France did not make for a happy girl. I personally dislike children being "lab rats" for adult experiments. It almost always turns out badly as the children grow. Youngsters WANT to please their caregivers, but people pleasing can stymie personal happiness. Self actualization is a tricky thing for the average child, let alone one in the spotlight.

  • I'd love to see this!!!! Anyone knows where could I get it? Thanks!!

  • it just looks so beautifully filmed.

  • IS THERE A GAP MISSING TO AFRICA?

  • Very interesting.

  • E' stupendo!

  • Si ho gia visto questo alla TV, molto publicità

  • I heard of a series on Animal Planet she was in a while back, but never got myself to see it. Very interesting story. But Africa's problems are essentially due to the people not being able to come together, where latent individual greed manifests itself so viciously should the opportunity arise, and where plenty of common ground can be found ,but none ever is.

    And no, Tippi is not the lost illegitimate child of Sarah Palin...I am. My name's Tupper, illegally adopted son of Michael Ware.

  • Somebody tell me where found the DVD! Please!

  • i think this would be a cool documentary on national geographic channel... since this girls fathers are wildlife photographers, that would be the coolest thing...

  • hey my name is Tippi also! :)

  • wow she luckey to have a life like this

  • This film is really about how we as humanity should live in the nature, instead of hiding away from, dwelling in the boring cities. Who wouldn't want a life like hers, in the nature! with raw elements of pure creation

  • I once saw a documentary baout here waaaay back.she was living in paris and didn't like it much and was constanly crying most of the time on camera.missing africa

  • I'd be crying also if I had to live in Paris ;) I think she has big enough presence in the media to become financially independent and go back to live Africa. I think it's good that she had a perspective of living in city against living in the nature, it will only make her stronger and even more appreciative of raw life in the nature.

  • In fact... if I were that girl, I'd superimpose that and make a documentary film about how people need to return back to more elemental life. Superimpose city life against nature life.

  • i AGREE. BE NO FUN LIVING IN PARIS when you could live in africa

  • Is this on DVD?

  • how old is she now??

  • she's 17 now

  • She's an amazing girl! Have the film about her when she was a little girl!

  • Date: 04.06.08

    Tippi have today Birthday.

    You a Cool Girl

    Best wishes for your 18th Birthday from africanjungle52.

  • I must say...there are some pretty negative comments here...but most seem positive. Thanks for sharing the experiences. What a beautiful project.

  • You know here in California some parents with large families put one or more of their kids at risk its called "taking one for the team, LOL!" Poor Tippi's parents seem determined that she will be a star or die trying -- either way, they make out like bandits -- and some poor underfed wild creatures get a snack!

  • COOL!!!!

  • Whites have alot to learn about truely living.