The children cut off from the outside world from birth by their father developed an animal-like language of growling and cooing as their mother tried to give them a "normal" upbringing.
Yesterday, for the first time, a picture was emerging of day-to-day life in the cellar which showed the remarkable protective efforts Elisabeth Fritzl went to in raising the children fathered by her own father, 73-year-old Josef Fritzl.
Yesterday police revealed how Stefan and Felix communicate in a bizarre dialect which is baffling psychologists and doctors who have been monitoring them since their release at the weekend.
They said some of the sounds they made were "animal-like".
Police chief Leopold Etz said: "It is only half true that they can speak. They communicate with noises that are a mixture of growling and cooing. Full story...
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