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Science of Survival: Jungle survival

There are many killers, visible or invisible, in a jungle, but with these tips it'll be much easier to survive.

Mike’s machete is based on a Malaysian type called a parang, and it's favored by special forces like the British SAS.

It has three essential working parts -- The point and front area use for incising and for slicing; the middle part here where bevels out as here, have been left for your chopping and your cutting. And then this fine curve part right here is what we use for carving and whittling.

In the jungle, the machete is the most valuable survival tool. It is so useful Mike can survive with nothing else. No lighter, no water canteens, nothing.

So far, I had all the creature comfort at home for me. It's nice, just me and her. It's getting late. And without this hammock and mosquito net, Mike need to think about a different bed for the night.

Unfortunately, I am still in the low lands, which isn't an ideal for a campsite. But I am running out of daylights, so I have to go ahead and make ourself a hutch. So tonight we are gonna sleep in this swamp bed. All we have is a swamp bed and a frame. A swamp bed simply has 4 little tripods of a about 2-foot-long stick slashed together and then spread out.

You can use jungle vines to tie your tripods together. But Mike uses his boot laces.

Two 6-foot-long pieces of wood for your bed frame and about 20 planks to give you the flat part, for the A-frame all you have to do is four 6-foot pieces in the shape of an A in the front and a shape of an A in the back and then one 6 to 7-foot long piece for your ceiling / structure, lashing together with a simple knot. Lay much palm ground down for your roof. And you will be ready to go. So far, I have everything that we need to survive. And even though the machete is the most important tool out here for survival in the jungle, I want to show you that you can still get by without it.

Everything that I am going to use to make my hutch tonight is going to be the stuff I have found foraging around on the forest floor. That's why it is called the debris hut.

There's still plenty of daylight, but with no tools, Mike knows he needs extra time to build a secure dry shelter to keep him safe from the jungle and its night-time dangers. This tree right here gives me very good shelter on 3 out of 4 sized. So I don't have to worry about any big creatures coming out for me in the middle of the night.

Mike gets close into the tree right under its canopy for add a protection from the notoriously heavy jungle rains.

He makes a sleeping platform from logs to get him off the ground. This should keep him dry if water gathers beneath him.

First, some green stuff down from my bedding. And then just lays some sticks I've found lean about.. upper against..face the tree for kind of like a lean to ... and a big pretty much shelter for the night. It takes some work even though if you just picking stuff off the ground. That is probably why I have to stop to give you some time to make a camp. I am in my next hutch, my debris hut. And it looks pretty good from inside. Little a bit of hole right there. But most of it looks pretty watertight. So you are gonna fit pours down rain...should be pretty good. Now that is not a 5-star hotel night we got at night.

Everyone imagines that they know the dangers of the jungle. But Mike knows that the real killers out here are smaller than you might think.

There was a mosquito heaven out here. So I have to stay covered up. I couldn't even take my boots off. And add a slit quite underneath my scarf just build a breath if they were let fit. The bad thing about mosquitoes is the miserable itch feels they cause. It just all the diseases that they carry. I mean, there are Jaguar, anaconda, Kemen, piranha. It will be a sad thing to survive all that and just to die from some disease.

The bottom line is a tiny mosquito is more likely to kill you than any of the creature in the rain forest.

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在丛林中有许多有形的和无形的杀手，但是按照以下提示，在丛林中求生将更加容易。

Mike的弯刀是马来西亚的帕兰刀，特别受特种部队的喜爱，比如英国特别空勤团。

这种弯刀有三个必要的工作部件——刀尖和刀前部用来切割，刀的中部用来砍或切割。这里弯曲的部位用来雕刻。

在丛林中，弯刀是最有价值的求生工具。即使没有其他任何工具，Mike只用这把弯刀也可以求生。没有打火机，没有水，任何东西都没有。

目前为止，我已经在家中找到了所有安慰。这很好，只有我和她。现在天色已晚。没有吊床和蚊帐，Mike需要再寻找一张床来度过黑夜。

不幸的是，我身处低洼之处，这并不是设置营地的理想之处。但是夜晚已经来临，我只能继续，为我们建造一个容身之处。那么，今晚我们就必须睡在这张沼泽地的床上了。我们仅有一张沼泽床和一个框架。沼泽床仅有四个小的由大约两英尺长的棍子组合在一起的三脚架组成，然后铺开。

你可以用丛林中的藤蔓植物将三脚架绑在一起。但是Mike用了鞋带。

两个六尺长的木板可以构成床的框架部分，二十个木板可以做成平坦的部分，而要制作一个A型的框架，你需要的只是利用四个六尺长的木板在前后各制成一个A型，另外利用一块六至七尺长的木板制成天花板结构，用一个简单的结将其捆在一起。将一些棕榈树枝放在上面作为屋顶。这样就可以住了。目前为止，我已经做好了求生需要的所有工作。虽然弯刀是丛林求生的重要工具，但是，我会向你展示，即使没有弯刀，你也可以求生。

今晚我用来建造帐篷的所有一切都来自在森林里发现的材料。所以我称其为碎片棚屋。

现在仍然还有阳光，天并没有黑，但是由于没有工具，Mike知道自己需要更多的时间来建造一个安全干燥的庇护所来保证自己的安全，躲避夜间的危险。这棵树给我提供了良好的容身之处，我不必担心夜间有大型生物出没。

Mike进入这棵大树，正好躲在天蓬下面，这样就可以躲避臭名昭著的丛林大雨的危害。

他用原木建造了一个睡觉的平台，这样就可以跟地面隔开一些距离。这样，在雨水在地面聚集时，他还可以保持干燥。

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