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In the Amazon Rainforest, hunter-gatherers (i.e. those who rely
primarily upon hunting game and gathering wild plants for their subsistence) are
generally classified as secondary hunter-gatherers. This means that at one
time they were primarily semi-sedentary horticulturalists, but abandoned their
crops for a more mobile lifestyle. As might be expected, these
hunter-gatherers would tend to be more warlike and "raid" horticultural
gardens of other tribes. In addition to hunting, they use a fish poison
known as "huaca" in order to fish. Huaca is really a biodegradable
method of stunning fish by depleting oxygen in the water rather than an actual
toxin. There are thousand of different species of fish in the Amazon River
Basin and almost all of them are edible. |