The Pioneer
The frontier and an appetite for the unknown, goes first.
Paul Rosolie reads as The Pioneer because his leadership happens where maps thin out. A conservationist and Amazon explorer, he goes physically into territory most people will only ever imagine, then returns to make the case for protecting it.
“And so the things in this forest, while they don't want to hurt us, there are things that are heavily defended because, for instance, a giant anteater needs claws to fight off a jaguar.”
“The powerful play But the army ants are so savage. If you step on Army ants, they were all kamikaze and just attack onto your feet and they'll just. Just sacrifice their own life for the good of the thing, and they'll be trying to kill your shoes. There's something funny about that to me.”
“Given the current size of the jungle, I think that the MVP, the pound for pound goat is ocelots. You're talking about like a midsize 40, 40, 50 pound cat that can climb that does, unlike a jaguar, jaguar every time it hunts. It's going after a deer. It catches a deer. The deer could hit it with its antlers.”
“As you have this bird, and so perfectly preserving that specimen. And I think a lot of non scientific people don't realize that every species from blue whale to elephant to blue jay to sparrow, whatever, whatever it is, whatever species we have on record, they're a scientific specimens. And the first people to see them shot them.”
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