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#369 – Paul Rosolie: Amazon Jungle, Uncontacted Tribes, Anacondas, and Ayahuasca

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How Anacondas Can Be Used to Study Mercury in the Ecosystem

Anacondas can be indicative for us of how is mercury moving through this ecosystem. The people in the region are having birth defects from the amount of mercury that's in the water and so we were starting at one point to learn things like these animals actually aren't just ambush predators which is what most of the literature would tell you  that anacondas or ambush predators no they actually go hunting.

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