One morning while we were in Nueva Luz village I took a couple of buckets over to the spring on the other side of the village to get some water. You go by Pookiritzi's house on the way to the spring. He right away wanted to show me what he had shot early this morning just a little ways upriver. He had a wild pig and a woolly monkey. He then told me that he shot two woolly monkeys but a jaguar (or puma) nabbed one of the monkeys before he could get it. Can you imagine? Last December an old jaguar came into the village here and attacked a dog, trying to get it for food. The dog survived, although it lost one eye. Then one of the villagers shot the jaguar. I haven't seen a jaguar while out hunting with, Laureano, an Asheninka believer, yet, but have seen jaguar feces close to the trail.
-Brad
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