What to eat in the jungle when you run out of food

Beetle grubs
The white grubs of wood-infesting beetles are perfectly edible if you split their bodies and toast or fry them. You'll find them in decaying or rotten wood.

Birds
All birds are edible, but stay away from those that eat dead animals – vultures and kites – their flesh tastes terrible.

Termites
You'll need to gather a great many of these tiny insects to make a meal. Some say they taste like peanut butter, others liken the taste to 10-day old curdled milk. But they are a good source of protein.

Frogs
Along with the Chultan edible frog (the kind Chult restaurants use when they serve frogs' legs), there are many other frogs that you can eat. Skin all frogs before you cook them.

Lizards and snakes
For the lizard, the meat from its hindquarters and tail is the best. If you catch a snake, remove the head immediately after killing it (and don't eat this part).

Crickets and grasshoppers
Remove the wings, legs and antennae, then toast them over a fire. You can also eat cicadas, various caterpillars, scorpions and even tarantulas.

Ants
Fry them whole. No shortage here: Chultan biologist and ant expert Otamu Wankerfuss has estimated there are between one thousand trillion to 10 thousand trillion ants crawling around the world at any one time. That's about a million for everyone in the world alive today.