Men, women and children who have lived alone in the jungle PETER FORMENKOMichael Peter Formenko - believed to be the son of a Russian princess - shunned the trappings of a decadent lifestyle at the age of 24 and opted to reside in an Australian rain forest. Formenko, now in his 80s, spent four decades spearing crocodiles and strangling wild boar.He travelled up and down rivers in a canoe he fashioned from a cedar log. Formenko claims to have been saved by a group of indigenous locals when he first moved to the forest. He returned to society in 1964 when he was arrested for vagrancy.story_article_left1THE FERAL CHILD OF BORNEOMalaysian authorities captured a child raised by orangutans in 2014. The Feral Boy of Borneo, as he became known, was taken into care following a furious face-off between the authorities and the boy - three orangutans had to be tranquilised by darts.The boy was said to be between four and seven years old with little or no signs of malnutrition and is still undergoing rehabilitation.MARINA CHAPMANA middle-aged grandmother from Bradford, Yorkshire, has written extensively of the five years that she says she spent living with a family of monkeys in a Colombian rain forest.Marina Chapman claims she was adopted by a family of capuchin monkeys after being left for dead in the jungle, aged five, after being kidnapped.A couple eventually found the 10-year-old, naked and with no knowledge of English, living with her monkey family. She is now in her 60s.DEWET DU TOITFormer South African security guard DeWet du Toit turned himself into a convincing real-life rope-swinger in an attempt to get movie work. The unemployed bodybuilder hoped his buffed-up physique, and three days a week spent living as Tarzan in the Garden Route forests, would help land him a role in a Tarzan movie.JOHN SSEBUNYAIt is believed that John Ssebunya (pictured below) spent three years living in the Ugandan forests, from the age of just two, after fleeing his home following his mother's murder (carried out by his father).Ssebunya claims to have been cared for by a troop of vervet monkeys and his entire body was covered in hair when he was discovered hiding in a tree in 1991 by a local tribeswoman. She was at first repelled by both the boy and his monkey friends, but Ssebunya has now re-entered human society. He joined a touring children's choir.THE HO VAN FAMILYA father and son spent 40 years in the Vietnamese jungle after taking flight during the war with the US. Former soldier Ho Van Thanh, 81, and his son Ho Van Lang, 41, were discovered in 2013 by a local journalist."When I met them it was exactly like meeting Tarzan," the journalist said. "They were naked, wearing a loincloth like Tarzan and their hair was long and dirty. They looked dazed."..