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Sergio and I continue to a sloth shelter, where, waiting for the tour, I sit in a café. Or a mammal. Working with the local jaguar conservancy, he learned that there are 10 or 11 different animals hunting peccaries and other prey at Selva Bananito. He answers: “Maybe the ganja those guys are smoking makes it that strong.”.
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