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Marina Chapman was just 4 years old when she was left in the jungle<\/h2>\n

A woman’s story of how she grew up in the jungle and was surrounded by monkeys has revealed how she survived.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 1954, in a remote\u00a0South American<\/a>\u00a0village, 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\u00a0capuchin monkeys<\/a>\u00a0for company.<\/p>\n

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\"Marina<\/div>\n

Marina was abandoned in the jungle at four years old. (UniLad)<\/cite><\/div>\n

Copying everything they did, including how they got food, is how she survived until she was found at ten years old.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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 keep watching where they getting this food and it took me days to find out where they getting the food.<\/p>\n

She continued: “Except one of them was a very good one, He used to go when some Indian people had fallen asleep, and they used to hear the sound of people falling asleep.<\/p>\n

“And he went in their room, very quiet, and he got a lot of foods out of these rooms with huge amounts of fruit. And it used to carry so much that he drop it. And that was the first time I came out and found a banana or other things.<\/p>\n

“And I pick it up quickly, but you better move quickly because if you don’t, they take it away quickly. So I learned to eat as fast as I could, always.”<\/p>\n

During her time with them, she says she learnt to recognise certain noises, as well as finding\u00a0food<\/a>\u00a0to eat, saying, “I had to learn to recognise the sounds.<\/p>\n

“The screechy one, you have to really be careful, you have to hide away.<\/p>\n

“Many sounds mean something. The ‘danger’ one is the louder one, and then the whistle one is the ‘food’ one.<\/p>\n

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\"Marina's<\/div>\n

Marina’s book details her journey from living with monkeys to surviving on the Columbian streets. (Amazon)<\/cite><\/div>\n

“And each sound means different things, but it took me a while to get used to it, I just learned from watching what they were doing every time I heard the sound.”<\/p>\n

Marina’s story doesn’t just describe her exceptional journey of survival at four years old, in her book: ‘The Girl with No Name: The Incredible True Story of a Child Raised by Monkeys’, she also details how she was later found at ten years old by hunters, sold to a brothel, before she later escaped and lived life on the streets of Columbia.<\/p>\n

Her book, which was published in 2013, details her extraordinary upbringing and her remarkable story. From her abduction by two men from a child-trafficking gang, aged just 4, to being dumped in the jungle and left alone to fend for herself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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