Australia: An Australian man was successfully found by police after surviving for six days in the desert without water and by eating ants.
Reginald Foggerdy, 62-year-old traveled into the Great Victoria Desert whilst hunting along with his brother, but later both lost their way and got departed last Wednesday, sparking a massive police manhunt.
The senior citizen who was wearing only a t-shirt, shorts, and a pair of flip flops at the time he went missing, whilst being subjected to temperatures up to 32 degrees Celsius (90 degrees Fahrenheit).
Police searched the vast landscape on foot and by air, also enlisting the help of Aboriginal trackers to navigate through the barren wilderness.
Footprints of Foggerdy helped the police to track and follow directly to the dehydrated father. He was found on Tuesday 15 km away from his camp, taking shelter beneath the shade of a tree and in desperate need of water.
Police Superintendent Andy Greatwood revealed on the radio that without hydrating the hunter survived by eating as many black ants as he could.
Reginald Foggerdy said, “his last couple of days of survival were achieved by lying down under a tree and eating black ants. That’s the level of survival that Mr. Foggerdy has gone to.”
