Boliviano survives in the Amazon jungle for a month by eating insects and drinking their urine.
A 30-year-old man recounted this Tuesday that for a month he survived alone in the Bolivian Amazon jungle, feeding on insects, drinking rainwater and even consuming their urine.
Source: AFP
“Knowing about survival helped me a lot: I had to eat insects, drink my urine, I have eaten worms, I was attacked by wild animals”, stated Jhonatan Acosta, interviewed by the private television channel Unitel.
At the end of January, the version appeared in the local media that Acosta had been lost since the 25th of that month in the Amazon jungle.
He went hunting with four friends in the province of Baures, in the department of Beni (northeast), but he became separated from the group and was never able to find him again.
Since then, his relatives have gone to the media almost daily to ask that the search by local firefighters and rescuers not stop, who finally They found it last Saturday, February 25.
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The man reported that while he was lost it rained almost half the time and he was able to use his rubber boots to store the liquid, but that when it cleared up he had to resort to drinking his urine.
“I asked God for rain. From all this stay in the jungle it would have rained in about 15 days, if it had not happened [sucedido los chubascos] I would not have survived, because water is paramount,” he said.
He says that, confused, He walked about 40 kilometers hoping to contact civilization again, but that he went back through the same places where he was before.
Without protection at night, he mentioned that He was bitten by various types of animals and now his concern is to check his health and “go through a detoxification phase”, because “what bugs have bitten me”.
In 2021, pilot Antonio Sena survived 38 days after crashing in the Brazilian Amazon jungle.
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Two brothers, ages seven and nine, were rescued in March last year after wandering lost for 25 days, feeding only on wild fruits, also on the Brazilian side of the Amazon.
One of the most remembered cases in Bolivia was that of the Israeli businessman Yossi Ghinsberg, who was lost for three weeks in the jungle of the South American country in 1981. His case inspired the film “Jungle”, played by British actor Daniel Radcliffe.
