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  • A Theraphosa leblondi, the world's largest tarantula, caught by Yanomami youths, roasting on the embers of a fire. Chaurino stuns the leblondi by whacking it with a stick, gathers its legs, and lowers it onto the fire. The spider makes a final hiss as its insides heat up and it shoots out a yard-long spurt of hot juice. Sejal, Venezuela.(Man Eating Bugs page 174 Top)
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  • A live specimen of Theraphosa leblondi, the world's largest tarantula before being fire-roasted, by Yanomami boys, in Sejal village, near the Orinoco River, Venezuela. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • A Yanomami child, clad in a Western T-shirt, takes a break from tarantula hunting to shoot an arrow at a bird high up in the canopy of the rain forest, Sejal, Venezuela. (Man Eating Bugs page 173)
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  • Yanomami children, clad in Western t-shirts, hunt for termites in trees containing the nests, Sejal, Venezuela. (Man Eating Bugs page 172 Top)
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  • Santos Perez, of the indigenous Yanomami people, looks at a freshly captured Theraphosa leblondi, the world's largest tarantula, on the edge of his machete, Sejal, Venezuela. He roasted and ate it. (Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects)
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  • A Yanomami youth named Gregorio Lopez wraps palm worms in palm leaves for transport back to the village, Sejal, Venezuela. (Man Eating Bugs page 172 Bottom)
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  • In the lush forests of the Ssese Islands, a small archipelago in Lake Victoria, a village farmer searches for dead palm trees, a source of masinya, or palm grubs (the larvae of the Capricorn beetle). Lake Victoria, Uganda. (Man Eating Bugs page 142,143)
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  • A group of loggers living in a jungle camp downriver from Sawa Village in the Asmat, a large, steamy hot tidal swamp in Irian Jaya, Indonesia. The people in this camp is logging the forest with hand axes, dragging the huge hardwood logs from deep in the forest over a long path of smaller cross logs. When they get to the river the logs are lashed together in rafts and floated down the river to sell to traders for cash or outboard boat motors. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • One of the many rivers snaking through the Asmat, a large, steamy hot tidal swamp. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Weather: Rainbow over nature preserve researchers Holt and Quizenberry. Waikamoi, island of Maui, Hawaii. Rainbows occur when the observer is facing falling rain or mist but with the sun behind them. White light is reflected inside the raindrops and split into its component colors by refraction. (1984)
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  • A slash-and-burn garden in the forest village of Sejal, Venezuela. (Man Eating Bugs page 168)
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  • The narrow prow of a bongo, a 30 foot-long dugout canoe, pushes up the Orinoco River and deep into the rain forest home of the Yanomami in southeast Venezuela. (Man Eating Bugs page 166,167) .
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  • Venezuelan children on the bank of the Orinoco River watch the approach of a small bongo, (wooden canoe). The village of Sejal is on the border of Yanomami country, an area of great interest to Western anthropologists, and therefore its inhabitants are familiar with visitors of all sorts. Sejal, Venezuela. (Man Eating Bugs page 168,169)
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  • Margarita, a Yanomami who maintains a dedication to the traditions and heritage of her people in the face of increased Western influence, sits in her hut in a hammock, cooking yams over a wood fire. She is in the midst of a village in which many have assumed the traditions of Western visitors who ironically came to study the uninfluenced Yanomami peoples. Sejal, Venezuela. (Man Eating Bugs page 170,171)
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  • Chaurino Perez Andrate, 17, offers a plate-sized sample of roasted Theraphosa leblondi, the world's largest tarantula in his village of Sejal, Venezuela. Chaurino stuns the leblondi by whacking it with a stick, gathers its legs, and lowers it onto the fire. The spider makes a final hiss as its insides heat up and it shoots out a yard-long spurt of hot juice. After it is roasted for about seven minutes, its charred hairs are rubbed away and the legs pulled off. When we crack them open, there's white meat.(Man Eating Bugs page 175)
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  • A group of loggers living in a jungle camp downriver from Sawa Village in the Asmat, a large, steamy hot tidal swamp in Irian Jaya, Indonesia. This group is logging the forest with hand axes, dragging the huge hardwood logs from deep in the forest over a long path of smaller cross logs. When they get to the river the logs are lashed together in rafts and floated down the river to sell to traders for cash or outboard boat motors. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • A live specimen of Theraphosa leblondi, the world's biggest tarantula before being fire-roasted, by Yanomami boys, in Sejal village, near the Orinoco River, Venezuela. (Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects)
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Biosphere 2 Project undertaken by Space Biosphere Ventures, a private ecological research firm funded by Edward P. Bass of Texas.  Carl Hodges, Director of the Environmental Research Lab at the University of Arizona, and consultant on the project inside the rainforest biome of Biosphere 2. Biosphere 2 was a privately funded experiment, designed to investigate the way in which humans interact with a small self-sufficient ecological environment, and to look at possibilities for future planetary colonization. The $30 million Biosphere covers 2.5 acres near Tucson, Arizona, and was entirely self- contained. The eight ‘Biospherian’s’ shared their air- and water-tight world with 3,800 species of plant and animal life. The project had problems with oxygen levels and food supply, and has been criticized over its scientific validity. MODEL RELEASED 1990
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  • Rainforest "weedbusters" chop & apply herbicide to invasive weeds. The ?weedbusters? of Volcanoes National Park on the island of Hawaii defend the park from the most vexatious invasive plants (Chris Zimmer and Lowell Thomas, rear; Kim Tavares and Bob Mattos, front). They are National Park employees who use machetes and weed killing chemicals to rid sections of forest of non-native invasive plants such as Kahili Ginger, Banana Poka, and Kikuyu (African grass)..Volcano National Park, Big Island, Hawaii. USA. MODEL RELEASED..
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  • Rainforest "weedbuster" Bob Mattos chopping & applying herbicide to invasive weeds; Kahili Ginger. Volcano National Park Big Island, Hawaii. USA. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Biosphere 2 Project undertaken by Space Biosphere Ventures, a private ecological research firm funded by Edward P. Bass of Texas.  The Rainforest Biome inside Biosphere 2, with sprinklers running.  Biosphere 2 was a privately funded experiment, designed to investigate the way in which humans interact with a small self-sufficient ecological environment, and to look at possibilities for future planetary colonization. 1991
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Peter Menzel Photography

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