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 ** I'd like to add that research done by Willie Smits on Borneo has shown Orang-utans to use pruning and weeding and sowing. **
 Ah! Just as language is part of primate evolution, so might be species cultivation. Can I point out another interesting (Dutch) researcher: Marc van Roosmalen: [[http://socialfiction.org/?tag=roosmalen]] his book contains a fascinating explanation on how to learn to survive in a tropical forest.
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+//Spotting these grey areas between gardening and foraging or between pristine 'natural' forests and human inhabited forests, is useful and clears up the discussion. Thanks for posting your views and for adding the research. Obviously I have very little knowledge about the Amazon and just base my remarks on limited personal experience in the forest of the Western Ghat mountains in Kerala. This type of 'field-research' is of course deeply subjective, but can be a useful addition to less direct research methods and your first entries, made me a bit suspicious about that at first. I'll sniff through the research you added and I'm sure it will increase my knowledge of these topics.//