The Jungle Whore_(0)
The Jungle Whore During my first trip to Tanzania with the Peace Corps in the mid-1960’s, I heard several tales about children who were occasionally stolen from small native settlements by wild animals. Big cats were the most common offenders but apes and chimpanzees were known to grab small ones, too. I never gave it much thought, thinking that the children had merely become meals for hungry animals, rather than the other way around. After several trips over the years, I had become familiar with many of the jungles…. enough to do my own exploring and photographing for days at a time. On one excursion, I was alone in the foothills of a mountain, shitting quietly under some thick underbrush. The normal, and beautiful sounds of birds, frogs, mating calls, and monkey chatter were all …