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Hero Monkeys Helped Lost Man Survive for Days in the Amazon
New York Post ^ | March 24, 2017 | Lia Eustachewich

Posted on 03/27/2017 8:47:42 AM PDT by nickcarraway

A Chilean tourist survived for nine days while lost in a dense expanse of Bolivian rainforest — thanks to a troop of hero monkeys who “dropped him fruit and led him to shelter and water every day,” the man claimed.

Maykool Coroseo Acuña, 25, went missing from his Max Adventures tour group at Madidi National Park, a protected rainforest in the northwest part of the South American country, National Geographic reported.

The night before Acuña disappeared, he refused to take part with other tourists in a traditional ceremony that gives thanks to Pachamama, Mother Earth, for allowing them to visit the forest.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Local News; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
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Would he have been saved in two days, if he had Amazon prime?
1 posted on 03/27/2017 8:47:42 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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The night before Acuña disappeared, he refused to take part with other tourists in a traditional ceremony that gives thanks to Pachamama, Mother Earth, for allowing them to visit the forest.

He didn't get lost. Those a-hole liberal environmentalists left him there! Poor guys only "crime" was not worshiping mother gaia earth.

2 posted on 03/27/2017 8:51:29 AM PDT by mc5cents (Pray for America)
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Just ‘cause the monkeys didn’t hit him with the fruit doesn’t mean they weren’t throwing it at him.


3 posted on 03/27/2017 8:54:18 AM PDT by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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The night before Acuña disappeared, he refused to take part with other tourists in a traditional ceremony that gives thanks to Pachamama, Mother Earth, for allowing them to visit the forest.

Like God fed Elijah in the wilderness by having ravens bring him food.....................

4 posted on 03/27/2017 8:56:17 AM PDT by Red Badger (Ending a sentence with a preposition is nothing to be afraid of........)
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God saves man who refused to worship idol!...................


5 posted on 03/27/2017 8:57:33 AM PDT by Red Badger (Ending a sentence with a preposition is nothing to be afraid of........)
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Having competed their study of the specimen, they released him to his natural habitat...


6 posted on 03/27/2017 8:57:53 AM PDT by GreenLanternCorps (Hi! I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts! (TM) Ask about franchise opportunities in your area.)
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For myself and the rangers, this is our culture,” said Madidi Park Director Marcos Uzquiano. “We believe that Duende is real. And we think it’s possible that Maykool was taken by him.”

Shamans told the search party that Acuña was “far away, in a place we can’t reach.”
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Apparently they are smoking the good stuff down in the Amazon.


7 posted on 03/27/2017 9:09:32 AM PDT by bramps (It's the Islam, stupid!)
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To: mc5cents

Yes, but it sounds like the One True God watched over this man that refused to worship a false idol, like God sent ravens to feed Elijah in the desert.


8 posted on 03/27/2017 9:12:40 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: nickcarraway

On one of the reality survival shows, didn’t someone get sicker than heck and had to be evacuated because he ate some fruit that some monkeys had left behind. IIRC, the monkey saliva had some virus in that the man got while finishing up a partially-eaten piece of fruit left behind by the monkeys.


9 posted on 03/27/2017 9:13:45 AM PDT by CommerceComet (Hillary: A unique blend of incompetence and corruption.)
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To: Red Badger; Daffynition
Max Adventures

Not guilty of false advertising at least.

I always wonder about things kinds of stories. How are they even discovered? Fertile imaginations? Who would bother to verify? Who would go down to the Amazon to check it out, and risk being carried off by giant tsetse flies? Wrong continent but you get the idea.

10 posted on 03/27/2017 9:19:07 AM PDT by Ezekiel (All who mourn(ed!) the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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South America I would worry about Bot Flies. Nasty critters...............


11 posted on 03/27/2017 9:22:49 AM PDT by Red Badger (Ending a sentence with a preposition is nothing to be afraid of........)
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I know what you mean, Zeke. I get a whiff of BS with this story.


12 posted on 03/27/2017 9:24:38 AM PDT by D_Idaho ("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...".)
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Yeah, I remember all too well when hero monkeys saved me from the anaconda and nothing to subsist on but food and water because I had inadvertently lost my corkscrew.


13 posted on 03/27/2017 9:27:47 AM PDT by BipolarBob (I've wasted enough time eating mushrooms and conversing with hookah smoking caterpillars.)
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It reminds me of those "man divorces wife because... [insert bizarre reason]" stories out of some obscure village in China.

if Pachamama becomes offended, she’ll send a sprite called Duende – who hides victims in another dimension – to get you, the site reported.

Creative inspiration drawn from the Obama White Hut, more likely.

14 posted on 03/27/2017 9:39:07 AM PDT by Ezekiel (All who mourn(ed!) the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: nickcarraway

Sorry, but if you read through the story, sounds like the guy was losing his mind, I do not believe this story.


15 posted on 03/27/2017 9:40:45 AM PDT by Paradox ("Donald Trump", the biggest Strawman ever created.)
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To: Ezekiel

It’s a mix of Andean and Amazonian beliefs with some made up garbage.


16 posted on 03/27/2017 9:49:35 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("The feelings business is very profitable, and the thinkings business is not.")
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To: nickcarraway

Hero Monkeys Uncover #PizzaGate in Washington DC


17 posted on 03/27/2017 9:51:30 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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Hero Monkeys Uncover #PizzaGate in Washington DC


18 posted on 03/27/2017 9:51:53 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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#PizzaFake

19 posted on 03/27/2017 9:53:34 AM PDT by humblegunner
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Did they get to keep the pizza? Do they make banana pizza?


20 posted on 03/27/2017 9:55:10 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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