[Angie10]

Surrounded by dangerous animals like lions and elephants, he managed to survive by eating wild fruit and digging for water.
A young boy who went missing in a rainforest reserve in northern Zimbabwe, home to dangerous animals like lions and elephants, reportedly survived for five days by eating fruit and finding water by digging wells.

According to The Metro, Tinotenda Pundu had wandered away from his village in northern Zimbabwe on December 27 and got lost. He was found around 30 miles (50 km) away five days later, in Matusadona National Park, weak and dehydrated but alive. Tinotenda used sticks to dig into a riverbank for water, a skill taught in the drought-prone area, and ate a wild fruit known as tsvanzva.

Describing the story of the 8-year-old Tinotenda Pudu, local member of parliament P Mutsa Murombedzi wrote,
"He wandered away, lost direction and unknowingly headed into the perilous Matusadonha game park. After 5 long, harrowing days in the jungle near a river, the boy has been found alive by the incredible rangers from Matusadona Africa Parks. His ordeal, wandering 23 km from home, sleeping on a rocky perch amidst roaring lions, passing elephants, eating wild fruits, and just the unforgiving wild, is too much for an 8-year-old."

Zimbabwe’s Matusadona game park has about 40 lions. At one point, it had one of the highest lion population densities in Africa, according to African Parks.

For the complete article: https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/how-an-8-y ... ve-7398728
Image credit: Alexas_Fotos @Pixabay

[Netherrealmer]

Mostly Lions attack humans when they see humans as a threat(especially the moms). They dont really like human meat if there are thousands of gazelles available

[Jem Smith]

That's impressive. I reckon most city kids wouldn't survive more than a day or two on their own in the wilderness like that.

Mostly Lions attack humans when they see humans as a threat(especially the moms). They dont really like human meat if there are thousands of gazelles available

Yep, I would think they would mostly consider us too much trouble unless we get close to them. They might even recognise that a child was a young one and might have parents around who would hurt them, the way some other animals stay away from baby elephants because they don't want to meet the angry mother elephant.

[Angie10]

Mostly Lions attack humans when they see humans as a threat(especially the moms). They dont really like human meat if there are thousands of gazelles available

Yes, I've heard they don't like human flesh, too. However, it never stops them tearing people it encounter from limb to limb. I remember an incident that happened years ago at a luxury safari lodge here. A member of staff got drunk and decided to walk to his room unaccompanied by the guides. Before he got far, a pack of lions decended on him and tore him apart right before the guests! These lions however, left nothing but his head.

Sadly, they had to be put down because apparently it only takes one bite for them to develop a taste for human flesh and start hunting them down.

--- 05 Jan 2025, 17:43 ---

That's impressive. I reckon most city kids wouldn't survive more than a day or two on their own in the wilderness like that.

Mostly Lions attack humans when they see humans as a threat(especially the moms). They dont really like human meat if there are thousands of gazelles available

Yep, I would think they would mostly consider us too much trouble unless we get close to them. They might even recognise that a child was a young one and might have parents around who would hurt them, the way some other animals stay away from baby elephants because they don't want to meet the angry mother elephant.

I know, right! I don't know if I would have survived I think I would have died from the sheer fear of being in the middle of nowhere, not knowing where I was and being aware of all the wild animals within the park!

[Netherrealmer]

One thing for sure. I WILL avoid any animal moms' even chickens peck me if I wannanget the eggs they incubate