Four kids who spent weeks alone in Colombia's Amazon jungle have been reunited with their families and have started playing again, according to officials.
The siblings, who are 13, 9, 5, and 1 years old, are recovering in a hospital in Bogota, the nation's capital.
According to their grandfather Fidencio Valencia, they are "very weak" but "happy to see their family.".
The military and locals searched for more than a month before discovering the four kids.
After their aircraft crashed on May 1, they vanished without a trace. In the crash, two pilots and their mother perished.
Rescuers found them after spotting footprints and fruit that had been bit into in the jungle, among other clues.
One-year-old baby and five-year-old spent their birthdays in the jungle under the guidance of Lesly, the oldest child, who is 13 years old.
Ivan Velasquez, Colombia's minister of defense, complimented Lesly for caring for her younger siblings while he and President Gustavo Petro visited them on Saturday in the hospital.
"The three others were able to survive because of her care and her knowledge of the jungle," Mr. Velasquez said. "It is thanks to her, her value and her leadership.".
According to the medical reports, the boy and the girls are generally in a respectable condition and are not in any danger. ".
They have "nutritional deficiencies," according to military doctor Carlos Rincon, but they have managed to survive with only "some soft tissue injuries, bites, and skin lesions.".
He continued, "They are not yet able to eat. We will start the process of incorporating food once we have finished the clinical examinations that will be carried out today. If all goes well, they should remain in the hospital for two to three weeks. ".
The Colombian Institute of Family Welfare's general director, Astrid Caceres, claimed that the kids "don't talk as much as we would like them to" and need some downtime.
Two of the kids, however, she claimed, had been playing.
The youngsters are indigenous Huitoto people. General Pedro Sanchez, who oversaw the search effort, gave credit to the Indigenous people who volunteered to assist with the rescue operation.
Miracle, miracle, miracle! We found the kids, he exclaimed to the press.
After their rescue, the grandmother of the kids, Fatima Valencia, said: "I am very grateful, and to mother earth as well, that they were set free. ".
She claimed that the four siblings' ability to care for the other three when their mother was away from home helped them survive in the jungle.
According to Ms. Valencia in video obtained by EVN, "She gave them flour and cassava bread, any fruit in the bush, they know what they must consume.".
The Cessna 206 aircraft the children and their mother were traveling in when it crashed was traveling from Araracuara, in the province of Amazonas, to San José del Guaviare when it issued a mayday alert due to engine failure.
The army discovered the bodies of the three adults at the crash site, but it appeared that the kids had gotten away from the debris and wandered into the rainforest in search of assistance.
The children left behind a makeshift shelter, a child's drinking bottle, a pair of scissors, and a hair tie, which were all found by rescuers in May.
Small footprints were also found, which gave search teams hope that the kids were still alive in the jungle, which is a predatory environment with jaguars, snakes, and other venomous animals.
The children's community members hoped that their familiarity with fruits and their knowledge of jungle survival techniques would increase their chances of surviving.
Native Americans joined the search, and helicopters broadcast a message from the children's grandmother, recorded in Huitoto, pleading with them to stop moving so they would be easier to find.
