WOMAN RAISED BY MONKEYS IN THE JUNGLE

WOMAN WHO WAS RAISED BY MONKEYS IN THE JUNGLE OPENS UP ABOUT HER UPBRINGING 

In 1954, in a remote South America village, a four year old girl was abducted and then abandoned deep in the Colombian rainforest. She managed to survive despite spending several years alone in the jungle, alongside a troop of Capuchin Monkeys for company.

Copying everything they did, including how they got food, is how she survived untill she was found at ten years old. Speaking to UNILAD, Marina told her story as she revealed what it was like growing up with the monkeys and how she learned to survive by getting fruit and food for them.

She explained: "I didn't know what to eat except the water. And I noticed the monkeys used to eat things. They kept eating something and I used watching where they were getting this food which took me days to find out where they get the food from 

One of the monkeys used to go to Indian people homes when fallen asleep, and enter their rooms very quietly and pick some foods out of these rooms with a huge amount of fruits. He used to eat quickly and give me a sign of eating quickly as we run away not to be found. So I learned to eat as quickly as I could, always.

She learned to recognise certain noises, as well as finding food to eat. " The screechy one, you have to really be careful, you have to hide away. " Many sounds means something like danger". One is the louder one, and the whistle one is the food one.'  .

It took her a while to get used to it,  she just learned from watching what they were doing every time she heard the sound.

Marina's story doesn't just describe her exceptional journey of survival at four years old, but also how she was found at ten years old by hunters, sold to a brothel, before she later escaped and lived Life on the streets of Columbia. 

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https://www.unilad.com/news/animals/woman-raised-by-monkeys-describes-wildlife-childhood-in-jungle-727008-20240523