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Tribes, Predators & MeSeries 1, Anaconda People of the AmazonIn pictures...

Gordon Buchanan joins a Waorani tribe in the Amazon as they search for giant anacondas.

  • Waorani warriors and the tapir
  • Daboto and her friends explain the dangers of living with the green anaconda
  • Kemperi, the Waorani jaguar shaman, who is 75
  • Hunter, Bai, shows Gordon how to prepare poison darts by tipping them with curare
  • Waorani chief, Penti, shows Gordon how they hunt with 3m long blowpipes and poison darts
  • Hunting success for Gordon, Bai and the rest of the Waorani
  • Cooking up dinner - Penti and his wife Daboto prepare wild peccary that they've hunted to feed the tribe
  • Gordon, Penti, Bai and Tepeña ritually catch and the release a green anaconda (Eunectes murinus)
  • Outside the house of Penti - the chief of Bameno village

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