christophe schenk and its peruvian colleague paul scott who. are taking the opportunity to assess the situation. a ministry employee tells them that every now and then indigenous residents appear on the opposite bank. and the one with. the. ministry employees stand back and observe letting the natives decide for themselves whether they wish to make contact here. is. as far as we are concerned they should live the way they want. we respect that for them and make sure that no one tries to establish contact with us but it's on us let us think this we try to shield them from any negative influence as for those. with them we want them to preserve their culture. and we respect their territorial claims. the fact that people here can still pursue their original way of life is another positive distinction of the region so it may be that some say that they live like people in the stone age. that sounds so negative it's true that they don't seem to be acquainted with metal or don't produce it at least they might have managed to get a machete or an axe som

when the 1st authors appear to keep their distance during his 3 years of field research christophe schenk had to work hard to gather any knowledge of them. and in touch it's amazing how little was known about the giant author after all they're active during the day and live in groups. at daybreak the biologists are out in their dinghy again. this is a good time because the authors rest at night and wake up hungry. christophe shanked began observing giant orders here today his work is continued by peruvian biologists. giant otters have singular throat markings which enable each animal to be identified. through paris and with the datasheet reveals whether an otter has already been documented. this helps researchers collect a lot of useful information. to. confirm again some of these individual throat markings have enabled us to trace the lives of a whole number of these animals. and we've been able to watch them grow and then leave the group as young animals to find a new home and establish families of their own. being able to do that is wonderful. it's the dream of every field biologist. t