The Mamey is a jungle peach and is edible raw or cooked. If one knows the Sandbox, the Manzanillo, the Cowitch and the Strychnos, one is unlikely to eat a poisonous plant in the jungle. The mosquito is a person's worse enemy in the jungle. A good coating of spit will cause ticks to release themselves off you. A coating of oil will bring botfly maggots to the surface of the skin.
Most jungles have at least one group of people who are cannibals.
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