In a new book, exclusively serialised by The Mail on Sunday from today, Mrs Chapman reveals how a colony of capuchins taught her how to survive after she was abandoned in the rainforest by kidnappers who botched her abduction. She copied the monkeys' eating habits and high-pitched cries and even learned to climb trees, though she slept in a hollowed-out tree trunk at night.
Mrs
Chapman's story – which has echoes of the Tarzan tales – began in the
Fifties when she was drugged and abducted from her Colombian home at the
age of four. Here, she recalls the moment her
young life was torn apart, and the ‘human’ kindness of the apes who
saved her . . .
Wild child: Marina Chapman at home in Bolton
Abbey, North Yorkshire, in 2009, climbing onto a tree-trunk hole,
similar to those in which she would find a bed during her time in the
jungle
Playing on the
vegetable patch at the end of our garden at my home in Colombia, I was
in my own special place, my little world where I loved to spend my
days. It was 1954, or at least I now think it was. Lost in my activity, I
was oblivious to others and everything happened so quickly that fateful
day.
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