PERTH, Australia (AP) — Police say a 62-year-old recreational hunter lost in a hot and arid region of the Australian Outback survived without water for six days by eating ants.

Police Superintendent Andy Greatwood says Reg Foggerdy left a car driven by his brother late Wednesday in pursuit of a camel in the Great Victoria Desert in Western Australia state.

Police trackers found the former miner sitting under a tree on Tuesday morning 15 kilometers (9 miles) from where he became lost.

Greatwood says Foggerdy spent the last two days sitting under a tree eating black ants.

He says Foggerdy “was extremely dehydrated, disoriented and basically delusional.”

Foggerdy was airlifted by the Royal Flying Doctor Service for hospital treatment.