{"id":2872,"date":"2023-03-07T10:37:09","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T09:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/defi30jours.fr\/?p=2872"},"modified":"2024-01-10T17:06:30","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T16:06:30","slug":"he-survives-in-the-jungle-for-30-days-by-eating-insects-and-drinking-his-urine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defi30jours.fr\/en\/il-survit-dans-la-jungle-pendant-30-jours-en-mangeant-des-insectes-et-en-buvant-son-urine\/","title":{"rendered":"he survives in the jungle for 30 days by eating insects and drinking his urine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jhonatan Acosta, a 30-year-old Bolivian, got lost in the Amazon rainforest in late January during a hunting trip with friends. He survived by drinking his urine, eating worms and insects, and after having to fight a pig.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>\u00abYou have no idea what I had to endure to survive\u00bb<\/em>. Lying on his hospital bed, his face swollen from insect bites, having lost 17 kilos and visibly still in shock, Jhonatan Acosta is a man who cheated death. <em>\u00ab <\/em><em>I asked God for rain. If it hadn\u2019t rained half the time, I wouldn\u2019t have survived.\u00bb<\/em>\u00a0does he bear witness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2873 size-fusion-400\" src=\"https:\/\/defi30jours.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Jhonatan-Acosta-400x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/defi30jours.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Jhonatan-Acosta-200x150.webp 200w, https:\/\/defi30jours.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Jhonatan-Acosta-300x225.webp 300w, https:\/\/defi30jours.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Jhonatan-Acosta-400x300.webp 400w, https:\/\/defi30jours.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Jhonatan-Acosta-600x450.webp 600w, https:\/\/defi30jours.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Jhonatan-Acosta.webp 661w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After getting lost during a hunting trip he was taking with 4 friends in the Beni department (north-eastern Bolivia), he walked about 40 kilometres but soon discovered that he was going around in circles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The cocoa farmer survived <strong>thanks to survival techniques<\/strong> : <em>\u00abI had to eat insects, drink my urine, eat worms. I was attacked by animals.\u00bb<\/em> Her sister, present at her side, continues the explanation: <em>\u00abHe must have fought with a pig, which is a wild and dangerous animal, while a tiger was prowling nearby.\u00bb<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; margin-bottom: 3%;\"><iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 0px; overflow: hidden;\" title=\"Dailymotion Video Player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/embed\/video\/x8irld8?autoplay=1\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"> <\/iframe><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was rescued by a search team on Saturday 26 February, 30 days after having <strong>lost in the Amazon rainforest<\/strong>, after the authorities called in a specially trained dog named Titan to sniff him out in the jungle.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This story is reminiscent of that of the Iraqi Yossi Ghinsberg, who survived three weeks in the jungle in Bolivia in 1981. His story inspired the film \u00abJungle\u00bb released in 2017, starring actor Daniel Radcliffe.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jhonatan Acosta, un Bolivien de 30 ans s\u2019\u00e9tait perdu dans la for\u00eat amazonienne fin janvier lors d\u2019une partie de chasse avec des amis. Il a surv\u00e9cu en buvant son urine, en mangeant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiration-motivation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defi30jours.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defi30jours.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defi30jours.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defi30jours.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defi30jours.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/defi30jours.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3211,"href":"https:\/\/defi30jours.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872\/revisions\/3211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defi30jours.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defi30jours.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defi30jours.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defi30jours.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2872"}],"curies":[{"name":"well played","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}