The basilisk lizards, which we were seeing at Chan Chich, are also called Jesus Christ lizards because they can walk on water. They go so quickly across water that the water tension holds them up. Then there is the give and take tree with its spines just where one might be likely to touch a tree and the cotton fiber from the inner bark, which stops bleeding from a cut. The heart of the palm can be eaten. Part of the Cecropia can be dried and smoked for a vision, but it makes one sick in the process.
Peccaries are pig-like animals native to the area.
The pseudomyrmex ants protect it. They are given nectar in the stem and protein at the end of the leaves. Shelter is found in the thorns of the tree. Then there is the strangler vine that wraps itself around a tree and so totally encircles it that it eventually becomes a tree, but kills its original host. The wild yam is good for birth control.