Astrid Cáceres, head of the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare, said the youngsters were also able to eat fruit because “the jungle was in harvest.”Īn air force video released Friday showed a helicopter using lines to pull the youngsters up because it couldn’t land in the dense rainforest where they were found. “After the fariña ran out, they began to eat seeds,” Valencia said. Fariña is a cassava flour that people eat in the Amazon region. “When the plane crashed, they took out (of the wreckage) a fariña, and with that, they survived,” the children’s uncle, Fidencio Valencia told reporters outside the hospital. The small aircraft fell off the radar a short time later and a search for survivors began. The Cessna single-engine propeller plane was carrying three adults and the four children when the pilot declared an emergency due to an engine failure. They were travelling with their mother from the Amazonian village of Araracuara to San Jose del Guaviare when the plane crashed in the early hours of May 1. “But in general, the condition of the children is acceptable,” Velásquez said. Defense Minister Iván Velásquez told reporters the children were being rehydrated and cannot eat food yet. The members of the Huitoto people, aged 13, 9 and 4 years and 11 months, are expected to remain for a minimum of two weeks at a hospital receiving treatment after their rescue Friday.įamily members, President Gustavo Petro as well as government and military officials met the children Saturday at the hospital in Bogota, the capital. With her first American comic book appearance in 1938, she was the oldest character to make the list.BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Four Indigenous children survived an Amazon plane crash that killed three adults and then braved the jungle for 40 days before being found alive by Colombian soldiers, bringing a happy ending to a search-and-rescue saga that captivated a nation and forced the usually opposing military and Indigenous people to work together.Ĭassava flour and some familiarity with the rainforest's fruits were key to the children's extraordinary survival in an area where snakes, mosquitoes and other animals abound. Sheena was ranked 59th in Comics Buyer's Guide's 100 Sexiest Women in Comics. In this version Sheena is able to transform into any jungle animal. In the TV Series with the same name (2000-2002) Sheena is played by Gena Lee Nolin. In the movie Sheena (1984) directed by John Guillermin, Sheena is played by Tanya Roberts. Sheena was a 26-episode TV series in 1955/56, with the title role played by model Irish McCalla. Sheena's weapons include spears, bows, and knives. She has no superhuman abilities (unless you count talking to animals), but she is an extremely strong, agile, and athletic woman, having been taught to survive the uncompromising ways of the jungle from an early age. ![]() Sheena can communicate with animals and is a proficient hand-to-hand combatant, who gains the advantage in surprise attacks. Her first appearance was in magazine Wags #1 (1937) in the United Kingdom in the United States, her first appearance was in Jumbo Comics #1 (1938). Sheena was created in 1937 by Will Eisner and Jerry Iger. Sheena was conceived as a female counterpart to Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan and has a very similar origin story. Creator Will Eisner has been quoted as saying that her name was inspired by H. Sheena was the first female comic book character to have her own series which debuted in spring 1942, beating Wonder Woman #1 which came out in summer the same year.
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