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Pet Saddleback Tamarin

This photo was originally published in “This Park in Peru is Nature ‘in Its Full Glory’ – With Hunters,” in June 2016.

Inside Peru’s Manú National Park lives indigenous people who hunt to live. Yoina Mameria Nontsotega doesn’t seem all too worried about hunting, though, as the Matsigenka girl is innocently taking a dip in the Yomibato River with her pet saddleback tamarin.