Paul Rosolie

Again, during that period where it got friendly, he was leaving and he had the machete and he was playing with the machete and like swinging it at butterflies.

And

One of my friends, this guy Bacho, he goes, oh, he goes, they help me machete.

He's like, you know, drop the machete.

And the guy just looked at him and was like, yeah, come and get it.

You know, I was like, yeah, you cross the river and see what happens.

Do you think he figured out or they later figured out how to use a machete?

Oh, they know machete.

They understand machete.

Yeah, yeah.

They do raids for machetes.

Okay.

Yeah.

They understand the power of a sharpened metal.

I mean, it's a, it's a Excalibur sword to them, you know?

But yeah, that, that one, that one has stuck with me because I go, what were they carrying in there?

So they obviously know how to fake animal calls.

Yeah, they speak in, they can use animal calls with enough complexity that they can do basic commands.

So they can speak in Capuchin, they use Tindamu calls.

Some of our rangers were upriver a few months ago.