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Naked and Afraid XL: 40 Days Falling Apart

Posted on 08/24/2015 by Elizabeth in Naked And Afraid and General News

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By Ashley Thompson

 

30 days in and things are getting ugly. All of the survivalists are at Piranha Lake but they're not necessarily "together".

Jeff and EJ are a quarter mile from the other larger group and have successfully hunted and gathered their area for over a week. They are strong mentally and physically because of their successes and are able to expend more calories in search of food. The average adult needs 1500 calories a day to survive but the group of 7 have eaten less than 200 daily calories each. For breakfast they have locusts and a tarantula, equal to 80-100 calories. Meanwhile Dani is maintaining a strict vegetarian diet and has two cashews. She has a handful of other fruits and veggies but is saving them for extraction. The 7 find a dead squirrel (not killed) and try to cook it up even though it could possibly be carrying rabies that could cause paralysis. In order to avoid things like rabies they don't eat the brain or spine. Except when Luke does eat the spinal cord... but he seems to know the risks.

Alana, Laura and Chris go hunting and make a stingray kill. The sharp hooks and venom under the stingrays tail can cause muscle cramps and extreme nausea but the trio gets away with their health. While roasting it up EJ comes along but the group doesn't share, even after knowing that Jeff and EJ have shared two eel. When Jeff kills another eel he voices that it is a team kill insinuating that he will not share. Jeff ultimately apologizes to the 7 and does share the massive eel.

While each member of the group has their own idea of survival, Danielle goes off on her own searches... leaving the remaining members to talk shit about how she's not part of the group. Living with 7 people day in and day out cannot be easy so her little journeys are her way of keeping sane. Chris approaches Danielle about not helping with the fire during her trip to the river for water (looks like she is helping the group by getting water). After their chat she apologizes to the group but Alana (always Alana) jumps in to criticize. Danielle vows to try harder. She also finds it appealing to join with other groups, however Jeff an EJ aren't looking for a trio. They do give her the utmost respect in her journey. Once Danielle overhears Dani, Alana and Eva talking bad about her, calling her a sociopath, pathological liar, and hoping she'll tap out, she questions her experience. She calls out the group that night at the fire and walks away. After finding a frog that had the skin ripped off the arm by a snake and comes to the conclusion that it's eat or be eaten. Taking it as a sign, Danielle taps out.

EJ and Jeff's XLR has gone up to 8.5. The 7's XLR has gone down to 7.1 due to social conflict.

 

Photo credit: Discovery Channel


  


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