When I was a grad student I worked deep in the Amazon of eastern Ecuador. The following wild foods could be found at the market: white-lipped peccary, spider mo

When I was a grad student I worked deep in the Amazon of eastern Ecuador. The following wild foods could be found at the market: white-lipped peccary, spider monkeys[1], woolly monkeys, paca, parrot, macaw, iguana (I think, might have actually been in Panama), and fish. [1] this was utterly heartbreaking, spider monkeys are rare, even in intact tropical forest, and have a very low reproductive rate. I remember visiting a local village where a female adult with a juvenile had been killed. The juvenile was being raised as a pet until it was large enough for the pot.