When you think of the rain forest, what comes to mind? Learning how to survive in general could be huge and could even help in life situations. One question someone could ask their self, what food am I able to eat? Knowing that some fruit has to be cleaned and processed through. Foods that would be safe for someone to eat would be acai berries, passion fruit, bananas, mangos, papaya, tomatoes, grapefruit, guava figs, avocado, pineapple and coconuts. Its also important to keep water in your system. Now being in the rain forest you won’t really find any clean water unless you clean it yourself. You could boil your water to make sure you can get at least some of the bacteria and dirty particles out. So to make sure random things aren’t in your water, more than likely you’ll want to start a fire to keep warm and to be a signal incase anyone comes to your rescue and with using the fire you could bring your water to a boil to get dirty particles and bacteria out.

Being in the rain forest there are a lot of plants and animals that should just be left alone for your own safety. With some animals being poisonous and some can kill you, you would probably want to know what to stay away from. Major animals to watch out for would be piranhas, boa constrictors, jaguars, and poisonous arrow frogs. Arrow Frogs in particular need to be avoided they usually live on the forest floor and any contact with an arrow frog is deadly. In addition to that you should also try to keep skin covered to avoid insect bites from happening, it would be very difficult to deal with insect bites while stranded with no resources to care for yourself.

Believe it or not there are stories of people actually surviving in the rain forest. Shannon Fraser, who is now 30, went missing on September 21. She was in Australia at the time with her partner.  When she was found she was reported to have lost a lot of weight. She was covered in scratches but surprisingly she was in good sprits once she was found. She lost nearly 17 kilos (37 pounds). Her experiences were really interesting for the world to know of. She came face-to-face with a giant cassowary flightless bird and got chased by a 6 1/2 foot freshwater crocodile, she was so severely sunburnt that she had to repeatedly submerge herself in a stream to cope with the pain. When she was found she was admitted into a hospital, she was reported to be dehydrated and had a few broken bones. She was in the hospital in intensive care for two weeks. She is now with her three children and is doing well. Considering what she has been through she will indeed suffer from being traumatized and will receive free therapy treatments.