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pleep: I misspoke when i said they "dont suffer from disease" what i meant to say is they haven't been exposed to regular diseases like flu, chicken pox, cough etc. They are still the victim of tropicial illnesses and infections like malaria

As you can imagine the infant mortality rate is very high, which is the reason their populations are so small. As for temperature, its the jungle, it does't get cold

Ok. But the bolded sounds odd. Any reason why a jungle won't be cold?

Is this news?

Naija journalism. Na wao.

Looks like Journalists really love bad news and they don't find 1, they create it.

Idrismusty97: Missed by an inch .

Lol

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Wow.

@MisterG, you seem to know so much about these people. Thanks for the info, I've learnt a lot.

ispeed: Am interested

Thanks for your interest. A mail has been sent to you.

There is no justifiable reason to stop Nigeria.

MisterG: They have arrows, as you seen from the links, and various type of weapons to hunt, fight other groups, and protect themselves in the jungle. As you noticed with similar community around the world, good example is the Masai in Kenya that live within the Safari park in Kenya. Also note Animals for some reason has a built in fear towards humans especially in large groups. Also note there are plenty of game for the animals to hunt, so it is less likely they bother human settlements whether large or small. However the biggest problems for these people is basically the rest of the human species that live outside the jungle and now settling and bringing development within the rainforet, which is destroying our planet eco system. I cannot stress that enough.

I would understand that they should have developed means of handling attacks in the day time when they are awake. However, seeing how unprotected their settlements look, I'm curious about how safe they are at night when they sleep.

Have you watched the movie titled "The Ghost and the Darkness"?

Set in 1898, this movie is based on the true story of two lions in Africa that killed 35 people over a nine month period, while a bridge engineer and an experienced old hunter tried to kill them.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116409/plotsummary

In the movie, railway construction workers were seized and eaten by 2 lions. Attacks happened mostly at night when the workers retire to their tent to sleep.

Glaxx: I'm kinda confused right now. I mean what if it wasnt the US government but some rouge organisation with a real ulterior motives? even if the US govt does hold the patent, a rouge division of it might have used the virus to make financial gains.

Look at the Original Assignee. It states The Govt of the US as Represented by the Secretary of the Dept. of Health.
Would you believe that the Patent Registrars would be so dumb not to confirm the identity of the assignee?

ITbomb: USA, always creating problems only them can solve since 1890. I'm not surprised. Someone just had his research grant approved at the expense of hundreds of lives

If anyone else should have a cure it's a pesticide. It's only their cure that is genuine.

MisterG: Actually the uncontacted groups are the minority, most consist of small groups only. The vast majority of the tribes in the Amazon have been in contact especially the large groups and now live in reservations, and they likewise had some interaction with the uncontacted groups, mainly through trade because there was always a tribe network among the different tribes.

Yes, there are many wide array of animals in the Amazon jungle ranging from Leopards, Jaguars, Hollering monkeys, pythons, crocodile and piranha. Among many others.

https://www.coolfactsforkids.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/black-panther-photoas.jpg

Here the list of some animals in the Amazon forest. Note the Amazon forest is the largest jungle in the world. As i mentioned before if the entire forest is gone, expect weird changes throughout planet earth. More than 28 percent of the forest is gone due to development, so the remaining tribes isolation will be short in the not to distance future.

Any idea on how they protect themselves from these wild life?

Wow. So there are many of such groups of people. Thanks @MisterG. I'm just learning of these people and it's so amazing.
I also wonder if there are no wild animals like Lions etc in these jungles that these people live. Their settlements don't seem to be protected from such wild animals. The world is a lot deeper than I thought.

pleep: yea, they also dont suffer from disease because of how isolated they are from everything. As a result they have no immunity either so even the common cold would kill them.

If mosquitoes exists in that forest, I wonder how they would cope. I'm so shocked to know that people live like this in this age.
How do they even handle the cold weather without clothing? How do those kids especially new born babies cope with the cold. It really baffles me.

diphi: .
yes very familiar

Really? It's new to me.

People are viewing and not commenting. Is everyone that familiar with this?

egopersonified: Hope you are not running for the President of nairaland, C-in-C of nairalanders? Becos that position is already taken.

As everyone is running, it may not be safe to stay put. One just has to try and run too so that you don't get left behind.
It won't be a bad idea to have democracy on Nairaland too. Maybe all Nairalanders' wishes would be granted by a new leader. Lol.

If someone should tell you that there still exists people who live in the forests as primitive men, would you belief him/her?
What if the person adds that these people (male and female) move about completely naked (I mean naked as they were born), would you still belief him?

Here is introducing the 21st Century naked People:

The Isolated People of the Zo'é Tribe.
The Zo'é people (also known as Zo'é or the Marrying tribe) are a native tribe in the State of Pará, Municipality of Óbidos, on the Cuminapanema River, Brazil.[3] They are a Tupi–Guarani[4] people.

Culture:
All Zo'é wear the poturu, a wooden plug piercing the bottom lip. The Zo'é have a tradition where new fathers have the backs of their calves cut with the 'tooth of a small rodent'.

The marriage rituals of the Zo'é are complex and not fully understood. It is not known how many wives or husbands one is allowed to have. Many women practice polyandry, one or more husbands may be "learning husbands"; young men learning how to be good spouses, in exchange for hunting for the rest of the family.

In the state of Para, Northern Brazil, in one of the last still largely unexplored rainforests in the world, a new tribe, the Zo'é, was recently contacted. They live between the Amazon River and the country of Suriname. The Zo'é are part of the Tupi linguistic group. Little is known about them. They are semi-nomadic hunters and gatherers. Their favorite prey is monkey, which is plentiful in the region during the dry season. During the rainy season, the Zo'é rely on a root plant called manioc, which must be processed into flour to avoid its poisonous properties.
—Jean-Pierre Dutilleux

Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zo%27%C3%A9_people


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--1AEHcLmuk

Find more youtube videos here: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=zoe+tribe+amazon

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Who are the Amazon's uncontacted tribes?
As video footage released by Brazil's indigenous authorities shows three uncontacted Amazonian men making contact with the outside world, here's an explanation of who they are and why they have rarely been seen before.

An uncontacted tribe has made first contact with the outside world in the Amazon, home to more groups that have not had contact with the outside world than any other area in the world. According to FUNAI, Brazil's indigenous authority and the organisation that filmed the natives shortly after their initial contact, there are 77 uncontacted tribes in the Amazon. The native men in the video come from uncontacted tribes living along the border between Peru and Brazil. It is estimated that around 600 natives have settled there, belonging to four separate groups.
According to Survival, a group advocating the rights of tribal people, the groups may have moved from Peru to Brazil due to potential attacks on the tribes, from drug smugglers or illegal loggers. But the group also seasonally moves for turtle eggs, which could be another reason why they came into contact with the Ashaninka native people of northern Brazil along the banks of the Envira River, near the Peruvian border.

The men belong to a tribe from the Panoan linguistic group, a group of languages spoken by indigenous people in the area of the Amazon. There is no knowledge of what the groups call themselves, however. Very little is known about indigenous people such as this, known as Uncontacted Indians. However, they are most likely descendants of tribe members who were able to escape the enslaving or wiping out of indigenous groups at the end of the 19th century, during the rubber boom.

Members of these tribes live in communal houses, and live off what they hunt and collect, including forest birds, animals, fish, fruits and nuts.
What is known about such groups is that they want to remain uncontacted. They have previously shot arrows at airplanes and tend to hide out deep in the Amazon in order to remain protected. However, their desire to stay uncontacted has become increasingly difficult, due to illegal activity encroaching on their territory. This is also putting such tribes at serious risk, as outsiders bring common bacteria into the natives' lands, exposing them to potentially life-threatening harm. Though we have largely developed immunity to common diseases like measles or the common cold, uncontacted Indians have not, meaning they are especially vulnerable to them.

FUNAI recently treated seven members of Uncontacted Indian tribes for the flu, reportedly after non-Indians invaded their land with guns. Although once they returned to their communities they were free of the virus, they may be carrying other sorts of bacteria which could bring harm to their tribe once they return. Survival has responded to the issue by beginning a campaign to protect the groups from such illnesses spread by members of the outside world. In March 2014, Peru and Brazil signed an agreement to monitor the protection of such tribes' land.

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/brazil/11003006/Who-are-the-Amazons-Uncontacted-Indians.html
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Attached image has been mutilated to avoid violation of Nairaland rule 5.

What do you think of these people?
The description of the location of these people suggest they are not based in Africa. Can't really where I picked it up, but I think they are located closer to Brazil. I'm not sure much has been heard/known about these people who are completely cut off from civilization. I think the Western media would have done much to publicize this if it was in Africa.

Not news worthy.

Atiku has said he is RUNNING in 2015.
Kwankwaso is also RUNNING....
Buhari is RUNNING as well...
Goodluck Jonathan will RUN...
Amaechi said he has interest in RUNNING.
Oshiomole is set to declare his interest to RUN.
Rochas Okorocha is also set to RUN.
Tambuwal is ready to RUN too.

My questions are:
1. Where are they RUNNING to?
2. Who is pursuing them?
3. Do we have Olympics in Nigeria in 2015?
4. Is it 100m or 200m race? Abi na Marathon?
5. Which stadium are they using?
6. What about you reading this, Won't you RUN?

Please after reading this ...start RUNNING and don't look back..Because me too am also running.

Jonathan has pleaded with Nigerians, especially his pro- campaign groups to be patient with him as a decision which would be favourable to them will be taken soon, just as he declared that he will not let Nigerians down.

The cat is already let out of the bag.

A great inventor.

So shocked that our police would return such a huge amount of money. Hope there are more of such men in the force.

Puzzles, Puzzles, Puzzles!

This can't be because of Ebola. If it is because of Ebola, why is it that Lagos the only place with confirmed cases is not affected, instead the states mentioned are more of those with security concerns. Looks more like trying to avoid admitting that security challenges in some states have not yet been properly contained and the 2nd best thing to blame is the much dreaded Ebola. Is Ebola present in Borno or BH?

Charging lower than your standard rate with the assumption that the client would connect you to more jobs as he promised.

I don't want to be a cartoon character.

ERCROSS: And of all diz birth miracles..
None accrued in my country..
D only thing u will hear is dat a woman gave birth to a Tortoise/goat/ram or even Lion, after 4years of pregnancy..
To cap it all, dem go tell us say..A baby born with Quran in his hands..
Nigerians..
I fear fear ooo

Well, I've watched a testimony of a Nigerian lady who gave birth to a set of triplets at two births for one pregnancy. Scan had indicated twins and after two babies were delivered on the 9th month, it was letter discovered that there was another baby. So two were born normally on the 9th month and the 3rd was delivered by CS on the 11th month. The deliveries actually happened in the US, but I watched it on a Lagos TV. This was in 2003 or 2004. I was in Lagos then, and this was on one of the private TV stations in Lagos.

Nice.

Nice.