"It was remarkable, once they got into the forest with us,"
Moskovits said. "They got to enjoying doing the work we were
doing.  "At the end of the first week, when we were being
choppered to our next location, it was the police who were the
ones at the windows and doorway, looking and shouting and
identifying what they were seeing. They were just transformed.
They just fell in love with the mountains."  Scientists taken
aback  The forest flabbergasted the scientists on the expedition
too, beginning with the enchantment of encountering so many
animals that obviously had never seen humans.  "Animals without
fear of humans, to me that was fascinating," the Field's
Schulenberg said.  "Monkey meat is a favorite of humans living
in the tropics, both indigenous people and settlers," he said,
"so monkeys normally flee and hide when people are present. We
were such an oddity that the monkeys came down lower on the
trees as we passed by to get a better look and to screech at
us."  Peccaries, piglike animals whose meat