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My name is Gordon Buchanan. I'm a wildlife cameraman.
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I've filmed some of the most dangerous
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and misunderstood animals on the planet.
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Oh, my God!
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But what's it like to actually live alongside terrifying predators?
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And raise your children with neighbours that might just eat you?
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To find out, I'm going to live with three extraordinary tribal families.
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They'll teach me to see
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these creatures from a totally new perspective.
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(Whoa, look, look, look!)
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IN OWN LANGUAGE:
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In the Amazon, I'll discover the secrets of the giant anaconda.
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It is just simply a monster!
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In Africa, I'll learn to stand up to wild lions.
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(My heart is in my mouth!)
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And in Papua New Guinea, I'll enter the mysterious world
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of the crocodile.
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I didn't realise it was that big.
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Spending time with these tribes will be a life-changing experience,
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one that will transform my understanding
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of the animals we fear the most.
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I am travelling to one of the most spectacular
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and challenging wild places on the planet, the Amazon rainforest.
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I'm here to learn from the masters of this environment,
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the last Waorani Indians of Ecuador.
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Back in the 1990s, I spent over two years living and working
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in the Amazon, and in all that time never once did I actually view
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this place through the eyes of the people that know it best,
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the people who are truly part of this world.
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So, for the next two weeks, I'll be living with the Waorani Indians,
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in the hope that I can gain a new understanding
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of the Amazon's iconic animals.
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And there's one animal in particular
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that they have a special relationship with, the biggest snake
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on the planet, the green anaconda.
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I've heard that the Waorani actually catch and then release these giants
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with their bare hands.
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I'm hoping I'll be brave enough to join them.
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The Waorani live in a remote part of Eastern Ecuador
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in one of the most biologically rich jungles on Earth.
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They have an incredible relationship with the wildlife here,
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one that's developed over thousands of years.
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The group I'm meeting came into contact with the outside world
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in the 1980s, but still live traditionally
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and they're fighting for it to remain that way.
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Hello.
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I'm going to fall.
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I'm Gordon, what's your name?
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Penti, good to meet you, Penti.
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Bai, Bai, good to meet you, Bai.
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So you're brothers?
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Ah, OK.
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Tepena. Gordon. OK.
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Hello, thank you.
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It's good to be here, thank you.
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Waponi.
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This is great, what a welcome.
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This village is called Bameno.
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It's home to around 150 people.
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Some now have electricity and mobile phones,
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but they still rely on their incredible knowledge
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of the forest to survive.
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I think, when you arrive somewhere new, I always feel a little bit,
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I don't know, a bit nervous,
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but as soon as you see happy smiling faces,
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it doesn't really matter where you are, who you're meeting -
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all you need is a warm welcome and a smile,
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and I certainly got that here.
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Penti, the leader of the village, shows me to his house.
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Ah-hah!
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Thank you.
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It's like a woolly monkey.
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A sloth?
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I was thinking I was more like a strong jaguar, but OK.
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I've come from a long, long way away, far away.
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Do you have beliefs about all of the animals
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that live in the forest?
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Green anacondas are constrictors.
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They can eat wild pigs, caiman and even humans.
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But because the Waorani believe that they're descended from anacondas,
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they don't kill them.
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Instead, they ritually catch and release these giants
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to demonstrate their bravery and acquire spiritual power
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and it's this extraordinary feat that I want to see
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more than anything else.
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But it's not just the anaconda that's important to them.
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Many forest animals live in the village as pets.
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BIRD CHIRPS
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But I wasn't expecting to see
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one of the Amazon's most elusive species here.
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This is the most remarkable thing I have ever seen.
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It's a tapir,
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but it's a wild, completely wild tapir
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that has come out...
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from the forest.
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I'm out of food. It is an extraordinary-looking creature.
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It's kind of distantly related to horses and rhinoceros.
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It is quite horse-like, it's got a little mane like a horse.
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Feet are very different, it's got feet like a hippo.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, you can see that, scratch marks there.
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Now, that is... That's a big, old meal for a jaguar
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and it is lovely, you know, it's lovely to think that no-one
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in the village has said, "Let's eat it,"
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they're quite happy, really like having it around as a pet.
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Oh, right.
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This is great!
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The Waorani are taking me to see their forest -
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maybe we'll even find an anaconda.
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Having lived in these lands for thousands of years,
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they have an intimate knowledge of the rainforest's animals.
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I want to learn all I can from these people.
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What's this place?
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OK, do you want me to go first?
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LOUD BIRD CRY Is that the toucan?
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Ah, OK.
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This forest has more kinds of animal than anywhere else
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in South America, and possibly the world.
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It's home to the powerful jaguar,
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great flocks of macaws,
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herds of peccary
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and at least ten different species of monkey.
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I'm excited to be learning about these animals from
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the true masters of the jungle.
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I've never felt particularly at home in jungles, despite the amount
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of time that I've spent there, whereas actually seeing these men,
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how much at home they are
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and just how proud they are of this place,
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of their world.
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Every single sound,
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every single tree has got a name,
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everyone knows what it is.
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It's like being...
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Yeah, it's just like having the ultimate forest tour guides.
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Yeah.
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Every now and again, I keep seeing movement up in the trees
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and there's squirrel monkeys, they're fairly small.
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The men are taking me to a place
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where a particularly large anaconda is sometimes seen.
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Anacondas spend much of their time underwater,
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holding their breath for up to eight hours.
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They can mate and give birth in the water,
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but they have to come out to warm up in the sun.
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You can see just a little tunnel in there where the anaconda's
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come out of the water and just sloped off through the grass.
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What's that? Oh, wow.
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So that's a single scale from the underside of the snake.
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So it's huge. How big, do you think?
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This size?
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GORDON LAUGHS
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That thick.
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Is that more skin there?
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'The largest published record of a live anaconda is just over
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'five metres - that's 17 feet.
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'This one could be even bigger.'
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It is exciting to know that somewhere close by is going to be
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the owner of this skin, a very, very large anaconda.
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With the wet season still a month away,
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Penti thinks that our presence has brought on this sudden rain shower.
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The thought of a nice storm in the tropics is great, but the thought
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of that being down to an angry anaconda I'm not that sure of,
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I don't think I'd like to even contemplate an enormous angry snake.
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OK, OK.
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For now, the anaconda has eluded us.
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To be honest, I'm relieved.
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Back near the village,
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I've joined the women to help with the washing up and to hear what
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it's like raising your family alongside these monsters.
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Do you not worry, with your children when they're young,
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with animals like anaconda?
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You know, it's interesting, the Waorani live alongside these
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huge snakes and they know that they're a threat,
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but yet they actually don't go out and kill them,
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there's a respect for this animal.
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So Tepena, he's a brave boy.
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I'd love to see an anaconda, really love to see one,
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but to actually approach it
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and try and pick it up,
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no, I don't really fancy that.
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As evening falls, I head to Penti's house.
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I'll be living here with his family for the next two weeks.
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SHE SINGS:
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It is very nice.
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I do feel... I feel ridiculously at home here, despite the fact
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that I haven't even been here for half a day yet.
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Yes, please. Thank you.
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'This drink is called chicha,
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'it's made from a vegetable they grow in the forest.'
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Mmm.
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'It's the staple meal for the Waorani...'
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Very good.
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'..and it's my dinner this evening.'
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I believe you.
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I'm slightly tired, so I think I'm just going to close my eyes
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and dream of giant anacondas.
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Giant angry anacondas.
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ROOSTER CROWS
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I had a very nice sleep, actually,
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but at one point I woke up and hadn't a clue where I was,
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and then sort of I could see a pig skull hanging up above me
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and I was like, "Where the hell is this? Oh, yeah, I remember."
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'It's chicha again for breakfast.
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'It seems that this drink is all we've got,
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'but there are signs that today could be good for hunting.'
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Those birds that fly over at night-time,
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"bo-bo-bo-bo, bo-bo-bo-bo."
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Yeah.
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Penti doesn't want to miss this opportunity to feed his family,
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so our search for the anaconda is put on hold.
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The men have been hunting in this vast forest
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since they were children.
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From here, you could walk for two weeks before hitting a road,
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so getting lost could be fatal.
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Penti wants to explain what to do if we get separated during the hunt.
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REVERBERATING THUMPING Wow.
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- ECHOING:
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LOW THUMPING Hang on, I need to get a better...
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ECHOING: Hooooo!
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Bai, Penti, Tepena,
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I'm lost!
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That is good to know.
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Yeah, let's go.
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'The Waorani are some of the greatest hunters in the Amazon,
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'and it's not long before they pick up a trail.'
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We've just found some fresh tracks of peccaries, wild pigs, off in
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this direction and we're going to try and follow them, so we're
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leaving the blowpipes here and we're going to try and follow the trails.
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You can actually get these wafts and you can smell the peccaries
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and everyone's got quite excited about that.
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The men still hunt peccaries in the traditional way,
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using sharpened sticks as spears.
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I'll need to be on my guard.
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Peccaries live in large groups and can be dangerous.
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They've been known to kill people with their tusks,
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so I've got to stay near to the men to be safe.
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The signs of these wild pigs are everywhere
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and it's all really fresh,
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and it's all very...
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slightly odd, being with a group of men whose sole intention is
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to kill an animal, and I think you kind of...
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you get swept along in that,
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you kind of get signed up to it, I suppose,
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because I do believe that inside every human being,
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every man particularly, the hunter is not that far beneath the surface
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and I think that excitement,
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that thrill,
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that promise of something to eat, is very powerful.
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But these guys are so fast.
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You can see that their whole physical design
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of the Waorani is perfect for this environment.
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They're small, they're strong, they can just duck under branches
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that I have to climb over and they can move quick and silently.
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I can't say that about myself.
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'I'm struggling to keep up and I've lost all sense
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'of where we are.'
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We're just kind of walking,
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I'm not sure if we've doubled backed on ourselves, whether we're going
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in a straight line, whether this is the same swamp as the last one.
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Oh, God, I'm sinking deeper.
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Oh, man.
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(OK, I've been told to be quiet.)
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(We might have some pigs up ahead.)
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LOW GRUNTING
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LOUD SQUEALING
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(Listen to that!)
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MEN YELL
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SILENCE
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I have lost everyone else.
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Everyone else sprinted off.
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ANIMAL SCREECHES IN DISTANCE
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Right...
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I am completely alone.
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I can hear voices over there.
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Ah, jeez, this isn't good.
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DISTANT YELLING:
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I'm only by myself for a moment, but it's enough to scare me.
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I don't know what the shouting is about.
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I wonder if they've got one.
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Soon I have my answer.
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An injured peccary will be very dangerous.
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The pig's run off with the spear still in it,
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so we've got to spread out, see if we can find it.
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HE YELLS IN OWN LANGUAGE
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OTHER HUNTERS SHOUT
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OK, he's got it, he's got it, he's got it.
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The hunt it over.
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I can't think of any
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proper way to describe that, other than just, er...
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..a thing of...
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..a thing of wonder and a thing of...
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I think a thing of beauty as well,
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which is strange, considering it's ended in the, you know,
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death of a wild animal, but to see the men working together in a place
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that is just incredibly challenging, just, I mean, beyond belief.
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And I think these men make it look really beautiful, in a way,
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through their ability to survive here.
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And part of that survival, you know, is about killing,
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killing things, killing things to eat, to survive.
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There is something vividly primal about this,
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just following a man with a dead pig strapped to his back
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through a swamp that looks like it could be from another time.
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It's all very quite peculiar but sort of, in some ways,
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almost familiar.
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Maybe these primal instincts,
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instincts that just mean that you can survive in some of the most
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inhospitable places on Earth,
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are not as hidden as we think.
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After half an hour, it's my turn to carry the peccary.
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I've come here to learn about wildlife
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from the Waorani's point of view.
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They've taught me about animals they revere and animals they eat,
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both critical for survival.
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I'm good with ducking.
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Ah, I'm stuck.
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I'm literally like a stuck pig.
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Come on. Oh!
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There you go.
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Upriver.
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It's heavy.
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Penti carried it, then Penti got tired and then I carried it.
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We're just burning the hair off it,
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but the smell of burning hair is...
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pretty acrid.
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I do think that if everyone that likes to eat meat
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had to do this, I think there would be a lot more
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vegetarians in the world.
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We are all eagerly awaiting dinner.
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The Waorani eat meat when they catch it, once a week if they're lucky.
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This pig will be shared amongst Penti's extended family
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and neighbours, about 20 people, so it'll only last a day.
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Very good.
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It feels like a real honour to be sitting with the hunters
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and to be eating the kind of choice cuts, cuts that are reserved
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for the hunters and I think for me, at this stage,
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it's an important thing, I think it's a bonding thing.
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The balls. That's testicle.
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Yeah.
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With full bellies, we can continue our search for the anaconda.
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The Waorani now have several motorised canoes,
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thanks to government grants.
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It means that they can travel easily around their territory.
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It's early morning, the sun's not yet properly up
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and the men are taking me down the river
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and what we're going to do is just scan the banks and then kind of
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look into this dark stuff and hope that I can an anaconda.
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And there's every chance, you know,
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every chance that we could see something.
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'It's not long before Tepena spots an animal that they all love.'
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HE SPEAKS IN OWN LANGUAGE
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Oh, a dolphin.
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'Pink river dolphins...'
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Oh, coming straight towards us.
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'..thriving here 3,000 miles from the Atlantic Ocean.'
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Oh, wow!
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Quite possibly the most mysterious animal in the Amazon.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, there we go.
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Yeah, wow.
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Oh, three, there's three of them.
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These Amazonian dolphins are just very unlike any dolphin
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you'd find in the ocean.
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ENGINE STARTS
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The Waorani know every bend in this river
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and the best spots to see animals...
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..but sometimes even they're surprised.
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Hey, fella. You're lovely, I've never seen that before.
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A tapir swimming across the river.
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Oh, it's a good size.
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It's a caiman, it's a South American alligator.
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Ah, you beauty, look at you.
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So, one of the main food sources for anacondas.
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So an anaconda would just grab a caiman like that
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and instantly coil around it and that would be game over for
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the caiman, just squeeze the life out of it and then consume it.
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Oops, in he goes.
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Two hours later,
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Penti stops at a place they've seen a huge anaconda before.
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Oh, yeah, yeah!
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There's a trail here that comes from the lagoon
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out of the water through all this thick vegetation and off through
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the grass, literally snaking off through the grass.
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There's a massive big hole down in here.
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Look at that.
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This place is every bit like the secret lair of some giant monster.
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This is slightly sinister, it's dark, it's mysterious,
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just like the animal itself.
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You can actually see this entire trunk,
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all the moss has been worn off it.
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That's because some enormous snake has been sunning itself in here.
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It's one of the few clearings above me,
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so, on a sunny day, this huge serpent comes out
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and stretches along...
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..this branch, warming up in the sun.
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Not by myself!
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With you, yes, maybe...
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One, two, three, four...
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Four of us,
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but by myself, no way, no, no, no.
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Yeah, it does make sense.
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I suppose the Waorani, they have to have an outlet
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to demonstrate that they are still fearless warriors,
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that they're prepared to do the things that others wouldn't.
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Brave man.
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ROOSTER CROWS I've been here for over a week
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and the family haven't had any meat since the peccary,
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so the men are keen to go hunting again.
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Before we head out, Daboto wants me to see her manioc
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and plantain garden, on the edge of the forest.
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With pleasure! Ah-ya!
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00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:29,600
It's the women who grow these staple crops
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and, in this tropical climate,
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they grow all year round, so it's a full-time job.
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Planting the plantains, the manioc, is as important as the hunting,
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because hunts aren't always successful,
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so this work is as essential as anything that the men do
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and, to be honest, it feels actually a lot harder.
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I leave the ladies to their work and join the hunting party.
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For this hunt, they're armed with blowpipes and poison-tip darts.
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00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:03,760
We're heading to a clay lick,
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a place where animals gather to find essential minerals in the mud.
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00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:20,600
Jaguar? Wow, look, yeah, yeah, look at that.
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00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:28,400
Gosh, that is very, very rare that you actually find
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evidence of these big cats in the forest.
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00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:33,880
You know that they're around,
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00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:37,400
but you never hear them and you very rarely see them
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and every once in a while you come across these scratch marks.
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So this is just a jaguar marking its territory,
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sharpening its claws.
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When do you think this was?
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OK, let's go.
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00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:01,880
I want to bump into this jaguar, that would be great.
430
00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:10,520
A few hundred metres back from the clay lick, we hear signs of life.
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LOUD CAWING
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Oh, gosh, maybe 20 macaws!
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00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:30,080
The macaws are absolutely stunning.
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00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:32,840
So are the flocks of parakeets.
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00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:35,000
But, as we're all looking up,
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Bai spots something just a few metres to the side.
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What did you see?
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Oh, God, I'd love to have seen that with my own eyes.
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A jaguar 20, less, 15 metres away.
440
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:02,280
It's amazing the way these men can just melt into the forest,
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but a jaguar takes that to a new level.
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They are practically invisible.
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00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:15,520
Good eyes, good eyes, Bai.
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00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:22,920
'As we reach the clay lick, any animals that may have
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00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:25,000
'been here have scattered.'
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00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:26,320
Oh, there you go, look.
447
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:32,040
Penti and his family have shown me so much about this forest,
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00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:35,440
now I'd like to see if I can show them something new.
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00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:36,920
OK.
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What I'm going to do is set up a camera trap,
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cos what I'd like to show the men is lots of different animals,
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00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:44,480
I think they would love to see that.
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OK, we will put this here.
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With no animals to hunt at the clay lick, we start to head home,
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00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:04,640
but then we hear the call of an animal the Waorani love to eat.
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SCREECHING
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Spider monkeys.
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Before I know it, we're on a monkey hunt.
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00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:43,880
That's the weirdest thing.
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I feel quite ashamed to say that I'm not...
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It's not that I'm not opposed to it, it's, er...
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I don't know, this is just their way of life, this is how they survive
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and who am I to come in and tell them that it's wrong?
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Because it's not wrong, it really isn't.
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00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:06,160
Yeah, I suppose... How I live my life, there's so many wrong things
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00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:10,760
about that that these people could point the finger at, you know.
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00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:14,080
For me, they live a very simple existence, they live, you know,
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an existence just taking what they need from the forest.
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00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:20,640
It just happens that monkeys are one of those things that they take.
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With the monkeys moving fast, lining up a clear shot seems impossible.
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00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:45,680
Hunting these monkeys 30 metres up in the tree tops
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requires formidable fire power.
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00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:51,120
The Waorani use three-metre long blowpipes,
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a design honed over thousands of years.
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The darts are tipped with poison,
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which will first paralyse and then kill the monkey.
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Getting a dart in is proving difficult.
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I think what they're trying to do is scare the monkeys,
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make them panic, kind of isolate them, get them out
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onto the open branches and they can get a clear shot of them.
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00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:50,960
They definitely do have a dart in the monkey,
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I just saw it move and that little white bit of cotton moving.
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Almost immediately, that poison's going to start working.
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Its muscles become paralysed, it'll freeze, maybe drop from the tree.
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It's on quite a broad branch, and if it dies up there,
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I don't think we're going to get it, it's not going to fall out.
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00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:38,680
Bai's climbing up the tree, but I can't believe he's going to
488
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climb all the way up there, it's over 100 feet.
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I just thought that that was it
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and then Bai starts climbing up,
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just hand over hand, he's got a vine wrapped round his feet,
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just to give him a bit of extra grip.
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You know, you think...
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00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:02,000
If we want to eat something, you go to a shop,
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00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:05,960
you hand over a piece of plastic and off you go, you take your food home.
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He is literally risking his life for the sake of a meal for his family.
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It is unbelievably impressive,
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just the skill and...
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..the bravery of these men.
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It is the most incredible thing I've ever, ever seen, it really is.
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OK.
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00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:34,520
OK, he's got it, he's got it, Bai has got it.
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Oh, here it comes. LOUD CRASHING
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Holy moley.
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Poor fella.
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OK.
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It's not even a big meal, I'm sure the four of us could
508
00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:01,720
finish this monkey in one sitting, but I suppose that is survival
509
00:39:01,720 --> 00:39:05,320
in the rainforest - everything you eat is hard-won.
510
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:15,240
That's skill, bravery bordering on madness. Hey!
511
00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:21,520
Well done.
512
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:30,000
That was good, that was very good.
513
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:34,160
By the way, Bai is...
514
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:37,120
I think he's, like, a year, two years older than me.
515
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:40,760
No way! No way.
516
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:43,960
I'd get maybe three metres off the ground, run out of energy
517
00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:46,720
and then I'd get scared and then slide back down.
518
00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:55,640
Something has really changed in me out here.
519
00:39:56,640 --> 00:40:00,600
The men have taught me not only how to feel comfortable in the forest,
520
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:03,400
but how life here depends on sharing what the rainforest
521
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:05,160
has to offer with respect.
522
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:15,360
Not far from here is a growing threat to the Waorani's way of life.
523
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:19,640
Oil companies are drilling in the area
524
00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:23,600
and the Waorani are deeply concerned about the impact on their world.
525
00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:50,560
Already they've lost two thirds of their ancestral land.
526
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:53,800
They're determined to fight to protect what's left.
527
00:40:56,440 --> 00:40:59,920
These huge snakes could help them in this struggle.
528
00:40:59,920 --> 00:41:01,800
The Waorani and the anaconda
529
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:05,880
would both be at risk from any oil pollutants,
530
00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:09,400
so Penti and his family are working with a scientist
531
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:11,520
to tag and monitor these snakes.
532
00:41:13,240 --> 00:41:15,040
Skin samples are taken to find out
533
00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:17,440
the impact of the oil on these animals.
534
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:21,760
What affects the anaconda may also affect these people.
535
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:48,280
It might seem quite a peculiar partnership,
536
00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:50,760
tribal people working with researchers,
537
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:53,880
but it's perfect, you're using all of this knowledge and expertise
538
00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:58,280
to find out what is happening in these rivers, what is happening
539
00:41:58,280 --> 00:42:01,800
to this ecosystem and I think it's not just for themselves,
540
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:04,280
it's not just for the species that live in the forest,
541
00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:05,680
the protection of the Amazon
542
00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:10,080
is for the betterment of all of mankind, I really believe that.
543
00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:15,920
ROOSTER CROWS
544
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:19,160
The next morning, I have a treat for the tribe.
545
00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:29,680
This is the one opportunity that I have to show the Waorani something,
546
00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:31,680
rather than them showing me.
547
00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:35,280
It's all of the footage from the camera traps that have been out
548
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:38,440
in the forest and it is very exciting because I haven't
549
00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:43,480
seen a single one and I don't know which animals are on there.
550
00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:45,240
Right, are we all ready?
551
00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:49,120
OK, here goes.
552
00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:50,680
Oh, look at that!
553
00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:54,680
My goodness, how many are there?
554
00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:02,320
That's breakfast, lunch and dinner right there.
555
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:07,760
Ooh, there.
556
00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:12,360
It must be amazing actually to...
557
00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:15,920
I suppose, whenever they see pigs, they see maybe just a glimpse
558
00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:18,720
through the forest or when they're hunting them.
559
00:43:19,720 --> 00:43:20,760
So many of them.
560
00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:23,200
Ah, fabulous.
561
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:30,520
I'd love to have been there sitting quietly
562
00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:33,520
and actually seen that with my own eyes.
563
00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:35,360
OK, next one.
564
00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:36,400
Oh-ho.
565
00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:40,280
What do you call it?
566
00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:44,040
Sunbittern.
567
00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:45,680
Off he goes.
568
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:46,960
OK, next.
569
00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:52,840
Did you know the spider monkeys come down to the salt lick?
570
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:04,040
It looks like the salt lick's the place to be.
571
00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:07,880
It's amazing the congregation of animal at this one site,
572
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:10,440
you can't help but wonder, where are the predators?
573
00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:14,080
Every image that I see, I expect to see everything just scatter
574
00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:16,520
and for a cat to walk through.
575
00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:18,080
There we go, look, oh, wow!
576
00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:22,920
Ocelots. Fabulous. Wow.
577
00:44:24,720 --> 00:44:27,920
These are solitary...solitary cats.
578
00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:32,360
Wow, that is a really rare glimpse of an incredibly elusive creature.
579
00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:38,040
OK, show's over.
580
00:44:38,040 --> 00:44:40,840
Ah, it's very nice to be able to show them
581
00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:43,320
some of the animals that live in the forest.
582
00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:46,520
I suppose, for the younger kids, maybe someone this size,
583
00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:50,000
has never been into the forest and actually seen a pig,
584
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:52,480
has never seen a macaw up close.
585
00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:55,160
It's great.
586
00:44:57,520 --> 00:45:00,680
It's not just the wildlife here that's remarkable,
587
00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:02,720
but also the Waorani themselves.
588
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:08,120
Hearing about the encroaching oil companies worries me greatly.
589
00:45:10,720 --> 00:45:12,480
This way of life...
590
00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:15,840
I think the simplicity of it is really something to be envied
591
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:18,920
and, you know, I do wonder and I worry what these kids
592
00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:20,480
are going to be doing.
593
00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:24,720
When they reach the age of Penti, are they going to be living
594
00:45:24,720 --> 00:45:27,680
in this way, in this village, are they going to be hunting
595
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:30,880
with spears and blowpipes?
596
00:45:30,880 --> 00:45:34,200
I would love to think that they would be, that enough of that
597
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:37,240
sort of importance of their heritage, their tradition,
598
00:45:37,240 --> 00:45:40,000
their way of life, the Waorani way of life, is passed on to them
599
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:43,320
and they want to hold on to the things that make them different,
600
00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:47,000
the things that make these kids unique, and they are unique.
601
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:48,520
They're Waorani.
602
00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:53,840
GORDON CHUCKLES
603
00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:07,400
I've experienced so much with Penti and his family,
604
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:10,680
but there's still one thing I'd love to see.
605
00:46:13,240 --> 00:46:16,440
How do these men capture huge snakes?
606
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:21,880
Time is running out...
607
00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:25,720
..but perhaps today I'll get my chance.
608
00:46:36,240 --> 00:46:37,720
Sounds like a plan.
609
00:46:37,720 --> 00:46:40,840
It's the one thing that's missing for me, I think, you know,
610
00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:43,640
coming to this forest and to hear the stories
611
00:46:43,640 --> 00:46:48,360
and the beliefs about these huge snakes and I think I really do
612
00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:50,600
need to see one, and I think I really do
613
00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:52,320
need to sort of, you know...
614
00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:57,400
..stay part of this group and do what these men are doing,
615
00:46:57,400 --> 00:47:01,600
even if it is catching the biggest snake that I've ever seen.
616
00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:06,000
Yeah, I'm ready.
617
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:11,480
The anaconda that lives in the lagoon has just been spotted.
618
00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:15,000
We're hoping it'll still be there.
619
00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:41,600
Yeah, we can do it together, the four of us.
620
00:47:43,760 --> 00:47:45,120
I'm scared.
621
00:47:52,800 --> 00:47:55,680
We can do it, we can do it.
622
00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:25,160
I keep on looking out across this lagoon expecting to see
623
00:48:25,160 --> 00:48:28,200
something that will resemble the Loch Ness Monster.
624
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:32,520
It feels very, very much like the right place
625
00:48:32,520 --> 00:48:35,200
to look for a huge snake.
626
00:48:46,920 --> 00:48:51,120
Tepena has just spotted some signs of
627
00:48:51,120 --> 00:48:54,360
an anaconda having moved through the side of the lagoon.
628
00:48:57,400 --> 00:49:01,240
(Tepena, the snake?)
629
00:49:01,240 --> 00:49:03,720
(OK, the snake's there.)
630
00:49:29,120 --> 00:49:32,160
(OK, I can see it, just its head,
631
00:49:32,160 --> 00:49:35,360
(it is absolutely enormous.)
632
00:49:39,760 --> 00:49:42,520
It is without a doubt the biggest snake I have ever seen.
633
00:49:42,520 --> 00:49:46,840
I don't think there's any way that we can try and catch this safely.
634
00:49:55,720 --> 00:49:57,760
MEN YELL
635
00:50:12,720 --> 00:50:15,720
I've got no idea what's going on, I just see hands, the snake,
636
00:50:15,720 --> 00:50:18,520
they're trying to get it out, but...
637
00:50:18,520 --> 00:50:21,400
'It's important for these men that they don't harm the snake
638
00:50:21,400 --> 00:50:22,840
'when they catch it.'
639
00:50:30,680 --> 00:50:32,440
What an absolute monster.
640
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:34,080
Ah, OK, I think it's coming.
641
00:50:45,160 --> 00:50:50,080
OK, we've got it disentangled from the roots
642
00:50:50,080 --> 00:50:54,160
and it just keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger,
643
00:50:54,160 --> 00:50:56,920
it is just simply a monster,
644
00:50:56,920 --> 00:50:59,240
a beautiful monster.
645
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:07,120
OK, one more, you got it, you got it?
646
00:51:11,960 --> 00:51:14,080
It's almost hard to tell how big it is,
647
00:51:14,080 --> 00:51:16,760
but, you know, it must be pushing five metres.
648
00:51:16,760 --> 00:51:19,480
The head is absolutely enormous.
649
00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:22,360
The girth of it is incredible.
650
00:51:22,360 --> 00:51:26,080
Looking at it you could think, "Oh, I could easily fit inside that,
651
00:51:26,080 --> 00:51:28,280
"any one of us could."
652
00:51:28,280 --> 00:51:31,480
Underneath the bulk of its weight,
653
00:51:31,480 --> 00:51:35,720
you can just feel just rippling muscle, rippling power.
654
00:51:35,720 --> 00:51:37,440
It is incredible.
655
00:51:49,680 --> 00:51:51,400
OK.
656
00:51:51,400 --> 00:51:53,520
Overcoming all sorts of things here.
657
00:51:53,520 --> 00:51:55,400
LOW HISS
658
00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:58,440
Oh, gosh, you are a beauty.
659
00:51:58,440 --> 00:52:04,480
Its size just is beyond belief, it really is.
660
00:52:04,480 --> 00:52:08,520
If catching a snake of this size is about proving that you are brave
661
00:52:08,520 --> 00:52:13,240
and that you're fearless, OK, I get it, you are.
662
00:52:13,240 --> 00:52:15,840
I suppose it's all about kind of trying to match
663
00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:18,520
the power of this snake with their own power...
664
00:52:20,360 --> 00:52:23,040
..and they've done it.
665
00:52:23,040 --> 00:52:26,000
I don't know, I haven't done it without fear.
666
00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:31,080
You know, even now, holding its head in my hands, I'm just worried
667
00:52:31,080 --> 00:52:35,160
it's going to get out of my grip, it's going to grab a hold of me
668
00:52:35,160 --> 00:52:38,600
and take me with it back into its lagoon.
669
00:52:40,200 --> 00:52:44,040
'Catching the snake is spiritually important to the men,
670
00:52:44,040 --> 00:52:48,360
'but now science is, too, and they take a small skin sample
671
00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:51,120
'to test for toxins caused by oil pollution.'
672
00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:01,840
The Amazon needs to be protected
673
00:53:01,840 --> 00:53:04,960
and these are the people that actually are doing it,
674
00:53:04,960 --> 00:53:07,920
they're right there at the sharp edge, at the coal face.
675
00:53:38,600 --> 00:53:42,880
OK, I'm going to let it slide down, OK, I'm letting my end go.
676
00:53:42,880 --> 00:53:47,320
'This snake is bigger than any live anaconda ever recorded
677
00:53:47,320 --> 00:53:48,920
'in scientific journals.'
678
00:53:51,960 --> 00:53:54,120
Beauty and power.
679
00:53:54,120 --> 00:53:58,840
Despite the differences between giant anaconda and the Waorani,
680
00:53:58,840 --> 00:54:04,440
their fates are linked and maybe the future for them all,
681
00:54:04,440 --> 00:54:09,600
the future for this forest lies in the hands of these people.
682
00:54:09,600 --> 00:54:12,520
Good luck, snake. What a beauty.
683
00:54:20,840 --> 00:54:23,120
Daboto, the heroes return!
684
00:54:31,560 --> 00:54:33,120
Look at this.
685
00:54:45,640 --> 00:54:47,720
Huge, absolutely huge.
686
00:55:27,160 --> 00:55:29,880
I'm sure this design on my arm or design of the anaconda
687
00:55:29,880 --> 00:55:33,240
is going to fade over the next couple of weeks,
688
00:55:33,240 --> 00:55:36,520
but my memory of this place,
689
00:55:36,520 --> 00:55:39,880
the times that I've shared with these people...
690
00:55:39,880 --> 00:55:43,120
Yeah, it's going to remain with me for the rest of my life.
691
00:55:50,360 --> 00:55:53,560
MEN CHANT AND SING
692
00:56:36,400 --> 00:56:42,400
It's been an amazing, incredible experience spending time
693
00:56:42,400 --> 00:56:48,240
with the Waorani and I've met lots of people around the world
694
00:56:48,240 --> 00:56:54,480
and you have inspired me more than any, so for that I thank you.
695
00:57:15,360 --> 00:57:16,880
Keep up the fight.
696
00:57:16,880 --> 00:57:18,080
Daboto.
697
00:57:27,600 --> 00:57:29,560
Waponi. Thank you.
698
00:57:33,320 --> 00:57:34,360
Good luck.
699
00:57:40,280 --> 00:57:43,960
I arrived and they're smiling, I'm leaving and they're smiling.
700
00:57:43,960 --> 00:57:45,800
They are a happy, happy people
701
00:57:45,800 --> 00:57:49,120
and just long may that continue, whatever the future holds for them.
702
00:57:49,120 --> 00:57:50,720
OK. Waponi.
703
00:57:58,000 --> 00:58:00,800
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