Blow Darts
June 29th 2006 Our next trail today we came up the matapalo. It is a strangler fig. Its vines wrap around another tree and ‘strangles’ it until it kills it. Then the vines surround the tree. The tree finally decomposes and the vines become a new tree. We got to go inside the matapalo. Later in the day a few of us asked Ima to show us some of the things the Huaorani use in the jungle. He took us out in the ju
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