"Miracle Kids Survive 40 Days in Amazon Jungle with Bag of Cassava Flour"

Four Indigenous Huitoto children aged 13, 9, 4, and 11 months survived in the Amazon jungle for nearly six weeks after a plane crash that killed the adults they were with. They survived on a bag of cassava flour and seeds from plants they were familiar with. The eldest child, Lesly Mucutuy, used survival knowledge imparted by her grandmother to build a camp in the wilderness using hair ribbons and find other safe foods for her siblings. The children were found 40 days after the crash, dehydrated and ravaged with bug bites, but otherwise fine.