Camilla Mills
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According to officials in Zimbabwe, eight-year-old Tino Tenda, he wandered away from his home in Kariba and found himself all of a sudden in this national park up in the north of the country in Kariba. So there's just a wealth of wildlife there. It's very thick, dense bush. You also have Lake Kariba, which is the biggest man-made lake in the world. and it is infested with crocodiles.
According to officials in Zimbabwe, eight-year-old Tino Tenda, he wandered away from his home in Kariba and found himself all of a sudden in this national park up in the north of the country in Kariba. So there's just a wealth of wildlife there. It's very thick, dense bush. You also have Lake Kariba, which is the biggest man-made lake in the world. and it is infested with crocodiles.
According to officials in Zimbabwe, eight-year-old Tino Tenda, he wandered away from his home in Kariba and found himself all of a sudden in this national park up in the north of the country in Kariba. So there's just a wealth of wildlife there. It's very thick, dense bush. You also have Lake Kariba, which is the biggest man-made lake in the world. and it is infested with crocodiles.
So he had a lot to fend himself against. So he wandered off and found himself trying to survive in the wild. For the days that he was there, apparently, he slept on rocky mounds to avoid nighttime predators. And in the day, he went foraging for wild fruit. And then he also dug mounds in the dry riverbed to try and find water.
So he had a lot to fend himself against. So he wandered off and found himself trying to survive in the wild. For the days that he was there, apparently, he slept on rocky mounds to avoid nighttime predators. And in the day, he went foraging for wild fruit. And then he also dug mounds in the dry riverbed to try and find water.
So he had a lot to fend himself against. So he wandered off and found himself trying to survive in the wild. For the days that he was there, apparently, he slept on rocky mounds to avoid nighttime predators. And in the day, he went foraging for wild fruit. And then he also dug mounds in the dry riverbed to try and find water.
Yeah, so growing up in that kind of community, so it's called the Nyami Nyamis, the local community up there, you would have to have these survival skills. You live in the bush and you have to know how to live alongside this wildlife. So he would have grown up learning all of this and it would just be second nature to him, literally. Yeah.
Yeah, so growing up in that kind of community, so it's called the Nyami Nyamis, the local community up there, you would have to have these survival skills. You live in the bush and you have to know how to live alongside this wildlife. So he would have grown up learning all of this and it would just be second nature to him, literally. Yeah.
Yeah, so growing up in that kind of community, so it's called the Nyami Nyamis, the local community up there, you would have to have these survival skills. You live in the bush and you have to know how to live alongside this wildlife. So he would have grown up learning all of this and it would just be second nature to him, literally. Yeah.
Yeah, so he would have had to contend with buffalo, which are incredibly dangerous, probably the most dangerous animals that he would have come across, lions and also elephants. We're not even thinking then about the snakes and the spiders and all of the other things. I mean, he was literally living in amongst the wild.
Yeah, so he would have had to contend with buffalo, which are incredibly dangerous, probably the most dangerous animals that he would have come across, lions and also elephants. We're not even thinking then about the snakes and the spiders and all of the other things. I mean, he was literally living in amongst the wild.
Yeah, so he would have had to contend with buffalo, which are incredibly dangerous, probably the most dangerous animals that he would have come across, lions and also elephants. We're not even thinking then about the snakes and the spiders and all of the other things. I mean, he was literally living in amongst the wild.
No, I think everyone there is pretty amazed that he was able to do this at the age of eight. Apparently he had heard rangers in the region and he tried to run after their truck and they drove off. And he then went back into the bushes and they came back along the same route and they saw his little human footprints and they were able to find him.
No, I think everyone there is pretty amazed that he was able to do this at the age of eight. Apparently he had heard rangers in the region and he tried to run after their truck and they drove off. And he then went back into the bushes and they came back along the same route and they saw his little human footprints and they were able to find him.
No, I think everyone there is pretty amazed that he was able to do this at the age of eight. Apparently he had heard rangers in the region and he tried to run after their truck and they drove off. And he then went back into the bushes and they came back along the same route and they saw his little human footprints and they were able to find him.
And the rangers said that after five days living in the wild, they don't actually think he would have survived for another day. So it's amazing that they found him then.
And the rangers said that after five days living in the wild, they don't actually think he would have survived for another day. So it's amazing that they found him then.
And the rangers said that after five days living in the wild, they don't actually think he would have survived for another day. So it's amazing that they found him then.