A Bolivian man revealed this Tuesday that he survived a month in the Amazon jungle, feeding on insects and earthworms and collecting drinking water with his boots, while not being forced to drink his own urine due to the absence of rain.
Jhonatan Acosta, 30, who was reported missing by his family in late January after a hunt with four friends in the Amazon rainforest, said he survived because he knew “survival techniques.”
“I had to eat insects, drink my urine, eat worms. I was attacked by animals,” he emphasized to TV channel Unitel on Tuesday.
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Acosta was found by rescue teams on Saturday, exactly 30 days after he accidentally abandoned his group in the Beni Department of northeastern Bolivia.
“I asked God for rain,” he said, adding that “if it hadn’t rained” half the days “I wouldn’t have survived.”
Disoriented, this Bolivian walked about 40 kilometers, but eventually discovered that he was walking in circles.
Other Survival Stories
This story in Bolivia is reminiscent of Iraqi adventurer Yossi Ghinsberg, who survived for three weeks in 1981, and his story inspired the movie “Jungle”, in 2017, starring British actor Daniel Radcliffe.
In early 2021, Antonio Sena survived 38 days in the Brazilian Amazon after his tourist plane crashed.
In March 2022, two brothers, ages 7 and 9, spent 25 days lost in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest.
Members of the Mura ethnic group ate only wild berries before being accidentally found in severe malnutrition and dehydration.
Source: DN
