A Bolivian man, Jhonatan Acosta, has claimed that he survived being lost in the Amazon rainforest alone for a month by consuming insects and worms, which he washed down with his own urine.
Acosta said he turned to these survival techniques as a last resort after becoming lost on a hunting trip with friends on January 25. He also claimed to have been attacked by various animals and had to fight with a pig while a tiger lurked nearby.
He said he had hiked about 25 miles in search of shelter but soon discovered he was walking in circles. Acosta said he survived because it rained for about half of the time he was lost, and he asked God for rain.
According to CBS News, Acosta was rescued by a search team last Saturday after officials enlisted a specially trained dog named Titan to sniff him out of the jungle.
His unconfirmed ordeal would make him one of the only people to survive in the Amazon for so long. In 1981, Israeli adventurer Yossi Ghinsberg survived for three weeks in the jungle, and pilot Antonio Sena fended for himself over 38 days after crashing his plane there in 2001. In 2002, two boys aged 7 and 9 reportedly survived 25 days alone in a Brazilian section of the rainforest on nothing but rainwater.
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