While on the Mamiruau Reserve in the Amazon, we visited one of the local villages. One gal was chosen to give us a tour of their village. We followed her as she told us about the village. It was all quite fascinating. About half way through the tour, one of the "free range" bulls started coming towards us. She and others in the village, immediately told us to run for the boats becuase it was a crazy bull. Fortunately, the bull just passed us by and left us all unscathed. Whew! Close call there!
Apparently, they have had problems with this particular bull in the past. There is a soccer field in the village and they have soccer games quite a lot. During one of the games, the bull was on a rage and charged the field and then charged the fans. The whole village started screaming and running to get out of the way of the bull. Can you imagine! By the way, ALL of their animals roam free (except the Pig).
When we visited the village, they still had a lot of green grass that they could walk on. But, it was quickly disappearing as the rainy season was reaching its peak. The water had already raised about 7 meters from the dry season river channel. So, they had to put their pig on a floating raft. Once the water raises to the point that they have no grass, they will build another boat to hold all of their cows (well.. they would build it before it's too late!). They will also have to visit their neighbors by hopping in their canoes. They were wonderful people and were really happy to have us visit them.
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