Children survive 40 days in Jungle.
A Cessna single-engine propeller plane was carrying three adults and four children when the engine quit and the pilot sent out a mayday signal. The small aircraft fell off the radar a short time later and a search for survivors began. The wreckage was found by searching soldiers with bodies of the three adults. They did not find any children, but there was some evidence that the children were alive and had walked away from the crash site. The children’s extraordinary survival was questioned for an area where snakes, mosquitoes and other animals abound. The children were members of the indigenous Huitoto people, aged 13, 9 and 4 years and 11 months, and familiar with living in the jungle. Sensing that they could be alive, Colombia’s army stepped up the hunt and flew 150 soldiers with dogs into the area, where mist and thick foliage greatly limited visibility. As the search progressed, soldiers found small clues that led them to believe the children were still alive, including a pair of footprints, a baby bottle, diapers and pieces of fruit that looked like they had been bitten by humans. Dozens of volunteers from Indigenous tribes also joined the search.
Soldiers on helicopters dropped boxes of food into the jungle, hoping that it would help sustain the children. Planes flying over the area fired flares to help search crews on the ground at night, and rescuers used speakers that blasted a message recorded by the siblings’ grandmother telling them to stay in one place. Timing was in the children’s favor “the jungle was in harvest,” the youngsters were able to eat fruit from the trees. Officials praised the courage of oldest of the children, a girl 13, who they said had some knowledge of how to survive in the rainforest and led the children through the ordeal. The children were found 3 miles away from the crash site in a small forest clearing. Rescue teams had passed within 20 to 50 meters of where the children were found on a couple of occasions but had missed them. “The minors were already very weak,” Sanchez said. “And surely their strength was only enough to breathe or reach a small fruit to feed themselves or drink a drop of water in the jungle.” President Petro called the children an “example of survival” and predicted their saga “will remain in history.” “The jungle saved them. They are children of the jungle, and now they are also hero children of Colombia.”
Jocular Jungle Jive
Lions sleep 18 hours a day…
If hard work is the secret to success, then donkeys would have been the kings of jungle!
Pretend you’re in a jungle, what do you do if a tiger is chasing you and catching up to you?
Stop pretending.
A mother asked her son to lose their cat somewhere in the jungle.
The boy obeyed. The boy returned home and reported to his mom.
Son: Mom! I led the cat far into the jungle. I even got lost!!
Mother: How were you able to come back home?
Son: I followed the cat.
An exhausted hunter stumbled into the arms of a fellow hunter: He explained, “Am I glad to see you, I have been wandering in these jungles for two days.”
“Don’t get too excited, friend, I have been lost here myself for a week.”
June 12th Birthdays
1989 – Cody Horn, 1929 – Anne Frank, 1987 – Jessica Keenen Wynn, 1965 Gwen Torrence
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