4 year old girl survives with Monkeys ?

[Ninurta]

This is a hard to believe story IMO

I tried living in the woods on my own as a grown man ... just to see ... just to test myself. It's one helluva lot harder than most people would expect.

You ever seen those survivor shows? The ones where they're dropped off in some remote wilderness area. They get to take a few tools with them, but all they manage to do is build a shitty little shelter and start slowly starving. Whoever starves-out the slowest is 'the winner'. LMAO

But ... yeah ... it's just about like that. Only a matter of time before nature gets ya. A four-year old out in the jungle? For years? The jungle is one of the most inhospitable environments no one imagines. Yeah ... you might not freeze, but anyone with half a lick of sense can build a fire and keep from freezing. So much can get ya in a jungle. Holy Toledo.

Color me skeptical as well.

Yup, I hear a lot of people say they'd love to cancel the grid and go live in the woods.  I wouldn't mind it myself.  But once you really start thinking about all you need to do to survive, it is daunting, to say the least.  Is that mushroom going to be delicious, or kill me?

Things could actually be going well, and you break a leg.  Then what?

Shelter, food, clothing.  Hunting and gathering.  Knowing how to hunt.  Knowing what you can and can't gather.  I keep meaning to buy one of those books on things you can forage and eat.  That would be your new Bible 

I'm skeptical of this story as well. I can't see a capuchin monkey (that's those tiny organ-grinder monkeys) dragging a girl as big as a 4 or 6 year old human any distance at all.

With that said, I think a kid would stand a better chance of survival in the wilderness than the average adult. Kids minds are still learning, still malleable, and their entire intellect is geared towards learning, because they start out knowing nothing and have to pick EVERYTHING up. Adults learn slower, because their minds are just about already full, mostly of useless stuff for survival in a primitive way. Adults have already learned to survive the modern way, and usually don't have room to re-learn survival in the wilderness. Adults have gotten used to modern conveniences that a child doesn't know about. When you're starting out from scratch, you're more likely to pick up what is most important for your survival given whichever environment you're in.

There is an old axiom about watching what birds eat, but I'm here to tell you that won't work. For example, birds eat poke berries with no ill effect, and they'll kill you dead or at the very least entirely screw up your digestive system for a good long while. Birds cannot taste hot peppers, so watching a bird eat one and then trying it yourself could be a pretty unpleasant surprise.

Monkeys have a more similar physiology to us, so watching what they eat is a safer bet. If all you have ever known is a primitive existence, and all of your formative years have been spent learning how it's done, the I would say you have an advantage over a more "civilized" person trying to eke out an existence in a world they don't know anything about, but you do, because that is what you've learned.

You're not likely to get fat off the land, but you also are less likely to starve entirely to death.

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