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Four children found alive in Amazon 40 days after plane crash
- 11235813213455 3y agoThere's much food around in a forest, from fruit, insects, plants. What's important is to figure which one are edible, and avoid injuries
- kramerger 3y agoFinally since good news :) Surprised that a 13 years old was able to take care of 3 small children in a jungle full of snakes and jaguars for 40 days. How was he able to keep the toddler alive? What do you feed someone that young in a jungle??
- the_mitsuhiko 3y agoA one year old eats almost anything you give to them.
- gdcbe 3y agoThey’ll put anything you want in their mouth, but they’re just as well masters in spitting it out. Feeding 1 year olds is fun though, I give you that :P
- mysterydip 3y agoAnd several things you don't :)
- bombcar 3y agoThe cheetah is well known for its speed but the fastest land mammal is a toddler that was just asked “what is in your mouth?”
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- pm3003 3y agoThey found the baby bottle quite late. Maybe they managed to salvage some milk or formula from the plane.
- biorach 3y agoIt looks like it's a place where plants fruit all year round, plus the BBC article said that they are members of a local indigenous group and might have known what was edible.
- Gualdrapo 3y agoAlso the rescue mission and the air force was leaving humanitarian packs here and there with food and essentials, but am not sure if they found anything of that while they were lost
- BasedAnon 3y agoYou shouldn't be, 13 year olds have complex reasoning and the physical capability. 14 year olds used to be expected to fight wars.
- furyofantares 3y agoI'd be surprised if a 30yo could keep a 1, 4, and 9 alive in the jungle for 40 days.
- dahfizz 3y agoA 30yo with no experience in the outdoors, maybe
- briga 3y agoBig difference between a 30 year old westerner who’s never been more than 500m from a paved highway and is afraid of spiders and a 13-year-old indigenous child who grew up in the jungle
- furyofantares 3y agoI do believe we are in agreement, yes
- fennecfoxy 3y agoAh yes, our species has always lived in air conditioned houses
- runsWphotons 3y agoA few 14 year olds have always fought in wars but when was this common or expected?
- the_lonely_road 3y agoHere is a good historical reference from a western viewpoint. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_children_in_the_military https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_children_in_the_m... I am less familiar with other regions of the world but understand it to be common place in some of them to this day.
- sveme 3y agoSHE. The two elder sisters kept the two younger ones alive. They knew what to eat in the jungle and used some of the randomly dropped emergency kits.
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- ayhanfuat 3y agoShe*
- smallerfish 3y ago> Surprised that a 13 years old was able to take care of 3 small children in a jungle full of snakes and jaguars for 40 days FTA: "The children belong to the Huitoto indigenous group." I.e. they're used to living on the land. Snakes are a concern if you're unwary in the jungle, but if you are somewhat aware of your surroundings you'll be OK. Jaguars are probably a different story, but I guess luckily they weren't in the territory of any animals.
- looofooo 3y agoWell Jaguars are very limited in numbers. So of falling risk to be eaten by one of them is low. If it would be high, then there are to many and hence they would decline due to lack of food soon. Plus human is not in their hunting scheme and rather offsetting smell.
- jlg23 3y ago> She said the eldest of the four siblings was used to looking after the other three when their mother was at work, and that this helped them survive in the jungle. > "She gave them flour and cassava bread, any fruit in the bush, they know what they must consume," Ms Valencia said in footage obtained by EVN.
- ncpa-cpl 3y agoThe children belong to the Huitoto indigenous group, who inhabit Colombia's Amazon región. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witoto https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witoto
- dfawcus 3y agoWhy? In English common law, traditionally 7 is the age of reason, 14 the age of an adult, and 21 the age of majority. We'd have 14 year olds off to sea, etc. I suspect (but haven't checked) this comes from some biblical rules. Remember that people can generally breed by 14 (even now, some girls go through pubity around 10 or 11), though a lot of western cultures now outlaw it.
- gfarah 3y agoOne thing I feel is missing from the article is how brutal the conditions (for the kids and the rescue team) must have been. Extreme heat and humidity are no joke.
- B1FF_PSUVM 3y ago> Extreme heat and humidity are no joke. I don't think that applies - actually they probably had close to ideal conditions for survival, it is possible to live naked without discomfort, and some tribes do. In what we call "temperate" climates they might have died of exposure.
- anjel 3y agoAlso the emotional headwinds of mourning the death of their mother.
- gossamer 3y agoI don't know about extreme heat. I have been to Colombia and there are very different climates. I am not sure exactly where they were, but it is probable that the temperature there was more warm with lots of rain.
- ufo 3y agoI hope they can still find Wilson, the rescue dog. Its tracks led the rescuers to the children. https://www.elpais.com.co/colombia/el-perro-wilson-se-mantiene-zozobra-por-desaparicion-del-canino-no-se-le-vio-junto-a-los-ninos-indigenas-en-la-selva-del-guaviare-0949.html https://www.elpais.com.co/colombia/el-perro-wilson-se-mantie...
- Solvency 3y agoI was vaguely tracking this through Reddit for a while, and I thought the consensus was that they falsely claimed they found the children and it turned out to be a big political lie. Glad to hear it finally happened.
- jeromegv 3y agoWho’s they? Surely if politicians claimed they found them, I’d be in the news?
- meowzor 3y agoThey had claimed they were found before this, but they retracted it. This time they did find them. Edit: I believe the president is the one that tweeted it the first time, and he retracted.
- Kalkaline 3y ago"The president came under criticism last month when a tweet published on his account mistakenly announced that the children had been found. He erased the tweet the next day saying that the information - which his office had been given by Colombia's child welfare agency - could not be confirmed." quote from the article this thread is about.
- flashback2199 3y agoFrom reading this article, it sounded like they found the general area where they were, but it took a while to actually find them because they kept moving
- chrisbrandow 3y agoIf true, this is a great demonstration of the advice to stay put when lost in the wilderness.
- karaterobot 3y agoThere's another article linked at the bottom of that article that talks about how the president had mistakenly claimed they'd been found a month ago, and had to retract it. Maybe that's what you're remembering.
- gossamer 3y agoA child was abandoned in the colombian jungle at the age of 4 and lived in the jungle, raised by monkeys, for 5 years. https://allthatsinteresting.com/marina-chapman https://allthatsinteresting.com/marina-chapman
- therealdrag0 3y agoNote the skepticism of experts.
- therealdrag0 3y ago> The bodies of the three adults were found at the crash site by the army, but it appeared that the children had escaped the wreckage and wandered into the rainforest to find help. PSA I’m no expert but as a kid I was taught to stay where you were if you got lost. And this seems to demonstrate that.
- therealdrag0 3y agoAnyone find out how far the children wandered from the crash site?
- BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 3y agoAs far as indigenous people are concerned,the jungle is a grocery store and a 13 year old would know what's in season an where to look for it. I don't think the kids had anything to hunt with; so, no meat.