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  1. “Ever hold a human skull, it'll give you It'll weigh on you for a second because you look into the hollow eyes of this face and suddenly you go, you feel your own cheat, you feel your own skull and you go, holy shit. You go, what is going on? It's like taking acid. You just go, oh boy, I forgot that I'm a ghost inhabiting a meat vehicle on a floating rock.”

    2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “Transfer off of ourselves if we go Yeah, the rivers are filled with trash and yeah extinction is happening but we have to be an interplanetary species anyway because at any moment this could all end from an asteroid and like everything's going to shit anyway and so it's like we're fucking up this planet It's like that's that's we're just being angry teenagers who are you know going goth for a while and it's like what if you just rolled up your sleeves and said holy shit wait a second You know, we can pretty much do whatever we want. We can fly all over the world. We can do heart transplants. We can watch Netflix and the Amazon if we wanted to. Like we could do all this amazing stuff. We can capture on video or adventures and go back and watch them again and again and again there's so much incredible opportunity that technology has allowed us to do and we're the richest in history. I mean we could do everything. We could cross the whole planet in a second. And it's like, that's an amazing time to be alive. And if we just don't fuck up the ecosystems.”

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  3. “There's a skull on the table. Now, a skull in my hand of a monkey with a bullet in its head that I found on the floor of an indigenous community where they eat monkeys, I didn't kill the monkey, so save your comments. But, you know, in terms of... Of the animals, I think that when I see space, my feeling, and I'm not requiring anybody else to have this feeling, but because we know, because it's the only place that we know that there's life and we have no idea how it started. I just think it's so important to protect it. And for me, it's just as much about our children as it is about the little spider monkeys and the little baby Caiman that are in the river right now because life is so beautiful. And I think that there's a huge amount of intellectual responsibility that we can.”

    2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “Okay, Lex, I love you. All right, so wouldn't it be interesting? It would be really fascinating to me. If we found out that there were aliens living among us and we couldn't see them, what some of the people were calling aliens, the scientists, the religious people were calling angels, and then everybody had this realization that whether you call them aliens or angels, there are these... There is way more to the universe than we're realizing. I just for me. The fact that there's”

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  5. “Operating that way, we don't. And there's so many gigantic, powerful. Cosmic entities out there that we detect. Sometimes can't detect dark matter, dark energy, but it's out there. We know it exists, but we can't explain why and what the fuck it is. We give it names, black holes and dark energy and dark matter, but those are all names for things that mathematical equations predict, but we don't understand. And so All of that is just to say that aliens could be here in ways that are for now and maybe for a long time going to be impossible for humans to understand. So aliens in the strict biological sense like horseshoe crabs. We agree that we haven't found physical aliens. The only way I can imagine finding physical aliens is”

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  6. “They operate in the space of ideas, for example, that ideas could be aliens. Feelings could be aliens. Consciousness itself could be aliens. So we can't restrict our understanding of what is a life form to a thing that is a biological creature that operates via natural selection on this particular planet. It could be much, much, much more sophisticated. It could be in the space of computation, for example, as we in the 21st century are developing increasingly sophisticated computational systems with artificial intelligence that could be operating on some other level that we can't even imagine. It could be operating on a level of physics that we have not even begun to understand. We barely understand quantum mechanics. We use it. Quantum mechanics is a way we used to make very accurate predictions, but to understand why.”

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  7. “You're telling me no one found one wing nut of a ship in all, like the Egyptians up until right now. No one in Russia saw like a crash ship took a picture, tweeted that shit real quick. And, you know. I think there's no Bigfoot. There's no trivial manifestations of aliens. I think if they're here, they're here in ways that are not comprehensible by humans because they're far more advanced than humans. They're far more advanced than any life forms on Earth. So even if it's just their probes, which cannot just even comprehend it Think it's possible that”

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  8. “Not like 100%, but there's a good percentage. I don't understand how it's possible for there not to be a very large number of alien civilization throughout just our galaxy. But that's different than saying that they're living among us. If you tell me that there's aliens living five galaxies over and that they're just out there somewhere, I'm kind of more on your side than that they're here. Because just like Bigfoot, like we have camera traps. We have DNA sequencing through water now. Like we can.”

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  9. “I like Mike Tom with a little drop of poison from Tom Wace is a necessary perturbation of the system of our thinking to sort of say, hey, we don't know what the fuck's going on around here, sure. And aliens is a nice way to say, okay, the mystery all around us is immense. Because to me, likely, aliens are living among us, not in a trivial sense, little green men. But the force that created life. I think permeates the entirety of the universe that there is a force that's creative. Now, the force that created life is a big one. And then the other thing is, what do you mean by that there's aliens living? You mean extraterrestrials? Yes. Living among us. Yes. You believe that?”

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  10. “That's a humbling way. That's an intellectual humility with which to approach the study of like, what the hell is going on here? This is truly incredible. Are the animals we've met over the last few days conscious? What is the nature of their intelligence? What is the nature of their consciousness? What motivates them? Are they individual creatures or are they actually part of the large system? And how large is the system? Is Earth one big system? And humans are just little fingertips of that system? Or are each of the individual... Animals really are the key actors, and everything else is in the emerging complexity of the system. So I think thinking about aliens is a necessary”

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  11. “We are special. We are the most intelligent animal. So one, I agree with you. There's some degree to which when you imagine aliens You forget if for a moment how special and important life is here on earth. Yes. But it's also a way to Reach Through curiosity in trying to understand what intelligence is, what is consciousness, what is exactly the thing that makes life unearth special. Another way of doing that, and I see the jungle, and that same way, is basically treating the animals all around us, the life forms all around us as kinds of aliens.”

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  12. “But we have this incredible thing where there are fish in the ocean and in the rivers. They come standard with life on Earth and we're harming the ability of Earth's ecosystems to provide for that life. And we are the generation that's going to decide if those systems continue to provide life to all the people on Earth and all the generations. And by the way, all the other animals that exist for their own reasons, other consciousnesses that we're just beginning to understand, elephants, humpback whales, whatever, families of giant river otters. Not everything can be seen from a human perspective. These are other species that have their own stories. And so I'm more biocentric than anthropocentric in that I think that nature is important, but I also believe that we are.”

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  13. “Not only do we have a responsibility to each other and to our children to protect this incredible gift that is our entire reality seems kind of weird too. At some point, conservation seems kind of ridiculous. Like you're begging people to not pollute the things that keep them alive. It's almost kind of silly at a point.”

    2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  14. “Not again, if they showed up tomorrow, great. Let's study them. But right now, we have this very simple threat going on where we can't stop killing each other and are living environment. And so while some people can specialize in looking to the stars and to other planets and talk about being an interplanetary species, I'm very much concerned with the fact that here in our home turf, our living environment where the air is good and the rivers are clean and the trees are big and there's macaws flying through the sky and salmon in the rivers.”

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  15. “Maybe we are the first. Maybe life originated here. Maybe God, the universe, whatever, maybe maybe this is it. This is the testing ground for something bigger and this complexity and this diversity of life and this life that we have is that important. And I think that part of what we do when we go, oh yeah, but there's other planets where, first of all, we're taking an assumption into reality without, I mean, you know, aliens right now are about as real as Santa Claus. We think they're out there, but we're not sure. Maybe a little more real because, you know, it could make sense. No one has an alien. No one's seen an alien. No one's even seen cellular life. And so...”

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  16. “You can write down a calculation on a napkin, you can cite different Hollywood movies, you can point up to the pieces of light in the stars, but if you talk about show me a single cell that's not from this planet. It's still not possible. And so I agree with you that the likelihood is there. All indications point to it. It would be fascinating, especially if it was done, especially, you know, imagine finding a planet of alternative life forms, not necessarily even intelligent. Imagine just a planet of butterflies, whatever, you know, something else. Would be amazing I'm concerned with the reality that we have in front of us is that this is the spaceship. This is life. And so right now, given that reality, maybe that's the case. Maybe there are other planets”

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  17. “Beautiful I love that. And so the rainforests to me are the greatest celebration of life and probably the greatest challenge for us as a global society because if we can't protect the crown jewel, the best thing, you know, the most beautiful part, then we're really, really missing the point.”

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  18. “And given that the fact that there are still these tropical, towering, complex ecosystems that we barely understand, crawling and full of the most incredible life is just, to me, it's so wonderful. It's so incredible. The waterfalls and the birds and the macaws and the jaguars, it's barely believable. Like if you were to theoretically tell a hypothetical alien, I live on this planet and there's just these places where everything is interconnected. Everything means something to something else. And the whole thing is this system that keeps us alive. And each tree is pumping air into the river. And there's an invisible river above the actual river. And the whole thing goes into stabilizing our global climate. And each little tiny leaf cutter ant somehow contributes to this giant biotic orchestra that keeps us alive and makes our environment possible. That is.”

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  19. “Carl Sagan's pale blue dot. Resonated with a lot of people, that everything you've ever heard of, all the heroes, all the villains, all of your ancestors, every achievement, tragedy, triumph, everything has happened on that one spot, this one tiny, tiny little rock that has life on it, and to me the rainforests represent the crown jewel of that, as far as we know into the best of our knowledge, and with our shrewd scientific brains at their fullest capacity, this is still the only place that we know that has life.”

    2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  20. “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. There's something kind of reassuring again, unless, unless, imagine if you're going through the jungle and you slip and you fall and you twist your knee. And you fall in just the right way, but you can't get up. You can't. You're stuck there. And then Army ants find you. They will take you apart. There are records of horses that have been tied up and Armyands come. And they'll take out the whole horse.”

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  21. “Like, as you said, just leaf cutter ants in this jungle. That's forgetting. All the other hundreds of species of ants that are in this jungle, but just the leaf cutters, apparently. Digest roughly 17% of the total biomass of the forest. Everything, all these giant trees, all that leaf litter, seventeen percent of that, almost a fifth of this forest cycles through leaf cutter colonies. So they're constantly regenerating the forest. They're a huge source of the driver of this ecosystem. And so to me, when you see them working, it's, again, like I said, you see your friends as you go through the jungle. You see all the K-pok trees, you see kinea tree. You see, there's leaf cutter and it's doing what they're supposed to do. And it's just so beautiful. I find them very beautiful. Army ants, they're so tough. They're so ready to fight. They have this huge mandibles. They're just ready to, they're transporting their eggs. They're moving from here to there. Anything that's in the way is getting eaten. They're just savage. And they're kind of cute for that.”

    2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  22. “It's just amazing because they live inside the tree. The tree comes standard with holes in it that allow the ants to move and to exist safe and Protects their eggs, and they protect the tree. And so we saw that spot where there was a perfect circle around the trees because the ants had Excavated the other vegetation so that those trees could have no competition to grow. The incredible calculation of how ants know to come programs to garden that tree and the tree somehow has been genetically informed to have ant habitat within itself. It's mind-blowing and it actually is the foundation of a lot of existential confusion for me because how the hell is this possible?”

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  23. “You actually, when you remember, we put our backpacks down at that one spot, and it was like the Anscott on your backpack, and I said, Oh, shit, this is that tree. Did you actually get bitten by one of those? Because they're incredibly painful.”

    2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  24. “The act, the sacred act of eating that, of the fish, of the competition with the fish. And we spent the morning fishing. We got three pacos, three huge giant vegetarian piranha. And I just remember touching them with so much reverence thinking about the incredible history and how that before these rivers existed, those pacos were... Swimming through the water and trying to survive through history, through history, through history, until we took just a few. And we did it respectfully and we did it when we needed it most, not at a time when it was just for fun. And it was really, really special.”

    2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  25. “I just thought wow, the strongest of this species for millions of years have been swimming in this river, and suddenly we've through this incredible combination of the boat and the cord and the hook, none of which we made, and the skill that he had from knowing how to fish apo, because otherwise there's no chance that you're getting that fish. They hide their very, very suspicious of what you're doing. We had gotten this fish onto the boat and plume you hammer it like a caveman boom. Doesn't die. Boom! You have to crush its skull. And now you have this fish and you're holding this genetic material, this sustenance for your life that has been developing since the dinosaur times. It's so beautiful.”

    2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  26. “Just letting it smack against the water. And I'm going, and we're floating down the river. And I'm going, this is not going to work. And we're floating and we're floating, and a half hour passes, and I'm going, it's dawn. I want to go back to sleep. I'm such, I'm just not a morning person. And all of a sudden a fish hits that line, almost pulls this man off of his feet, and he swings the thing in, the fish comes on the boat, and then I realize he's got a big metal mallet on the boat so that you could try to shut that fish off. And it's this huge ore-shaped... Thick muscular paco. And as soon as I saw that fish”

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  27. “And in the morning, Victor's wife was canoeing with the paddle. Dead quiet. Don't let the paddle touch the wooden boat. Nikita was balanced in the middle of the thing. Victor's on the front with this huge fishing rod, and I'm sitting there, and he goes, I'll catch the first one, you catch the second one. And he's got this huge fishing rod and a piece of half rotten meat from the day before. And he's smacking it against the wall, 6 a”

    2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  28. “Amazing. It's delicious, full of nutrients. You could tell it makes you healthy. I feel like we had better work out. We can go harder in the jungle. And so a few months ago, in August, when the river was down, there was a day that the river was clear. And a friend of mine, Victor, who's married to a native girl, he said, It's time to go paco fishing. And at the time, we were stuck out here and we had no resupply. Everybody was busy. And so everyone was demoralized. The staff was hungry. We were hungry. And it really became this thing of like, hey, go catch us some paco. They were working on the trails. They were installing the solar. We were working hard and we didn't have food. And so we went out to the river. And what we did was we went upriver. We camped on the beach.”

    2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  29. “But humans are brutal too. That story we heard about that guy the other day who caught a stingray on a fishing hook, chopped its tail off to make it safe for humans, cut a piece of the stingray off so he could use it for bait and then threw the live fish back in the river. To me that is incomprehensible amounts of cruelty. With flawed logic in every direction. If you're going to use the thing as bait, use it as bait. If you're going to remove its tail, well, then just kill it all together. Or if you want to save the animal and not kill it, then don't maim it before you return it to its. It was such a weird.”

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  30. “They are serious predators. I found a baby black cayman not that long ago, and he was missing all of his toes. The piranhas had eaten them off. It was really sad. He just had these stumps and he was swimming around the water. And I was like, You are not going to make it. He was like eight inches. And he was such a cute little puppy. He had those big eyes. And I was just like, man, you already are missing all your toes. I was like, just a matter of time. Now he can't get away. So some big Agami heron's going to come and just nail him. pop him down his throat that's the end of that for the caiman”

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  31. “They can rotate around and just shred you apart. So they're really cool fighters. Piranha fish, fish, I don't identify with fish in terms like that. I think living out here has made me think of fish as... Kind of rapid food that can or can't be gotten like to me a piranha is just is when I see a piranha I think about how I want to how I want it to taste”

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  32. “Yeah, not in the mammalian way though. Piranhas are in large schools, but fish are so different. Like if I can talk to you all about all the time. How much I'd love to be an otter also going back to the fighting thing. Otters and weasels muscle a day tend to be very loose in their skin. So if you grab an otter, it can still rotate around to bite you. So it's like if I grab you by the back, you're stuck. You grab them by the skin.”

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  33. “We're so social. And so to me, Riverada is like having a big Italian family. You're like constantly eating. You're freaking out. You know, just like causing problems with the black caiman.”

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  34. “And being so solitary, and just marching along a fifteen mile route and making sure there's no other cats coming in on your territory and marking that territory. It seems very solo and very. Cat like”

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  35. “And so they sort of occupy this perfect niche where they can hunt small prey in high quantity without taking on big risks. And so if you had to choose an animal to be, it would probably be like an ocelot or I would say giant river otters, which are so damn cool because the locals call them lobos de rio river wolves because they're so tough and they're so social and they're so like us because they're intensely familial groups. They live in holes by the sides of lakes and they swim through the water and they catch fish all day long Puranas they eat them just like the scales go flying as they eat these piranhas and they're so joyous in the way they swim and they have friends and they have family and they I think it would be I think we could relate to being a river out of really because I can't picture being a cat”

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  36. “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. It could tear it with its hooves. It's risking its life. For that meal. An ocelot. Ocelots walk around at night and they climb a tree, eat a whole bunch of eggs, eat the motherbird too, kill a snake, maybe mess around and eat a baby cane and they can have whatever they like. And they're sleek enough and smart enough to get away from predators so they don't really have predators.”

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  37. “One of the most interesting limits that I heard somebody talking about recently was the reason that dinosaurs didn't get bigger, even bigger, because the conditions on Earth were favorable towards it, was that at some point their eggs reached this physical limits, that their eggs reached a size that the eggs were so big that eggs need to breathe for the embryo to survive, and their eggs reached a limit where In order to have a shell that could hold the mass of the liquid and the young dinosaur, if they got bigger, it wouldn't be permeable anymore. And I thought that was so interesting because the entire size of physical creatures was determined by how thick shell can be before it breaks or before it can't pass. Air through it”

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  38. “Their comparable size. Same size. I don't know, man. I never thought about it. I mean, Bullett has these giant. Giant mandibles that could probably grab the Black Caiman and then at that amount of venom, you're talking about a bucket of venom going into that black caiman. Black caiman's going to get paralyzed immediately.”

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  39. “So, everyone is pound for pound ratio Efficiency, so you have basically like a six foot bullet ant versus a huge black Cayman versus an Anaconda versus ocelots or the size of jaguars versus.”

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  40. “Or aguaje palms, and it's difficult to find the right hole in a tree. There's only so much Macaulay real estate, and so they need to use those holes. And each one of those ancient trees, it's usually 500 years or more, is a valuable macaw generating site in the forest. And so if those trees go down, you lose exponential amounts of macaws, and that's how you get endangered species. And so that's why we're trying to protect the ironwood trees.”

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  41. “It's all interesting. I mean, there's the anti monogamy crew who's like, you know, we were never meant to be monogamous. We're supposed to just be animals. And then there's the other side of the crew that's like, we were meant to be monogamous. We are monogamous creatures. That's what God wanted between a man and a woman. And then other people like, yeah, but I know about these two gay penguins. And so that's natural too. And so everyone tries to draw their Their identity, they're trying to justify their identity off of the laws of nature. So the fact that macaws are monogamous really doesn't have anything to do with anybody except for that it's beneficial for them to work together to raise chicks. It's difficult. They rely on ironwood trees.”

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  42. “The threat of violence. Yeah. I mean, howler monkeys in the morning are letting other groups know this is where we're at. We're going to be foraging over here. You better stay away. And so it's a little bit respectful as well. There is order in the chaos.”

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  43. “Yeah. I mean, when you wake up in the canopy in the morning in the Amazon rainforest, as soon as that the darkness lifts, as soon as that purple comes in the east in the morning, the howler monkeys start up. And then the parrots start up, and then the Tinamus start going, and then the macaws start going, and pretty soon everybody's going, and the spider monkey groups are all calling to each other, and it's just the whole Dawn chorus starts, and it's so exciting”

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  44. “Saying we saw the snake inside a crevice on that tree in the strangler fig, and we don't know what it is. It's just people haven't been up there”

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  45. “Float over the canopy of the Amazon and then lay these big nets over the broccoli of the trees. And the nets were dense enough that humans could walk on the nets and then reach through and pull cactuses and lizards and snakes, whatever, just take specimens from the canopy. That's how difficult it is that scientists have resorted to using hot air balloons. And so having a treehouse, having canopy platforms, it's starting to get, there's starting to be more and more access to the rainforest canopy. And so we're beginning to log more data. We've even observed in our treehouse, which is supposed to be the tallest in the world, we're seeing. Lizards that we don't see on the ground, lizards that have never been documented on this river. Like we're seeing snakes where”

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  46. “Yeah, absolutely. I mean, certainly in the canopy, 50% of the life in a rainforest is in the canopy. And we've had very limited access to the canopy for all of history. You know, if you wanted to get up into the rainforest canopy, you basically have to climb a vine. Or what scientists when I was a kid, I always used to see them with like the slingshots or the bow and arrows. They would shoot a piece of paracord over a branch, pull the rope up, and then do the ascension thing. And then you're up in this tree getting swarmed by sweat bees, getting stung by wasps. You're trying to do science up there in that environment. It's incredibly hostile. And so having canopy platforms, I actually met a guy at a French film festival who had used hot air balloons.”

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  47. “We have pictures of all these butterflies. Somebody went out with a butterfly net and caught these butterflies, took a picture of it, gave it a name, put it in a butterfly book. What do we know? What host plant do they use for their caterpillars? What's their geographical range? What do we actually know not that much? So are there creatures out here that haven't been described absolutely”

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  48. “If you look up how many Trees are in the Amazon rainforest. It's something in the order of four hundred billion trees. There's something like seventy to eighty thousand species of plants, individual types of plants here fifteen hundred species of trees. It's so vast that it's comparable like the scale is like only comparable to the universe in terms of stars and galaxies and for the sheer immensity of it. And so we're describing new species every year and just walking on the trail at night, you and I have seen, you know, you see a tiny little spider hidden in a crevice and has the scientific eye ever seen that spider before? Has it been documented? Do we know anything about its life cycle? There's still so much that's here that is completely unknown.”

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  49. “Wrong. No, you don't get woolly monkeys there or Emperor Terence. But we have proof. And so we're coming together to try and add to that knowledge.”

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  50. “Once again, the mammal paper pat champagne, the prodigy, he was sort of leading on this with a bunch of other scientists who have worked in the region, including Holly O'Donnell out of Oxford. Myself, I really just made a few observations. The jungle keepers Rangers got featured because they're the ones that spotted a pygmy marmoset that had previously been unrecorded on the river. I got to contribute because I had the only photograph that I believe anyone has of an emperor Tamarin on this river. It's the first proof of Emperor Tamarin on this river. And that's exciting. It's exciting because, you know, you can post a picture or share a scientific observation or write about something and then what happens is you get these couch experts, these armchair experts who will come and say, you know, no, no, you don't get blue and yellow macaws there. I can tell from my bird book it says they're not there. And they'll tell you your...”

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