Food and Hunger chapter 9,,10

Food and Hunger


Indigenous people of the rainforest suffer on some level with hunger .
The homes of many tribal cultures these forests are consistently subjected to many exploitations.
although most native societies have been destroyed s is is estimated there are still more than 1,000 rainforest cultures that still exists today.

Right being disregarded these forests continue to be exploited for all its abundant resources. Tribes such as the Penans society which is a hunter-gatherer tribe in south-East Asia that number about 10,000. This tribe relys on fruits and vegetables of of the forest as well as many fungi wild greens and edible palms.

Preservation of the forest is a culturally embedded value passed along to generation after generation of the Indigenous people.  Preservation of the forest is not a value of intrusive Governmental and Private entities that continue to take from the forest precious resources such as medicinal plants and organic food that provide for its habitat.

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Animals that face a shortage of food in a rainforest do what is called estivate, which is similar to hibernation as a way to cope with food shortage. A continuous battle and competition for food many species adapt to their surroundings in a physical manner such as changing shape color or size to fit into their surroundings and example being stick insects which become the color and shape of surrounding aggregation.

Different species of the forests develop physically to adapt to their survival needs such as Tucan birds that have large, hard beaks to pick, grind and eat various types of leaves and shells. An important aspect of food competition in the rainforest environment is adaption of food consumption and survival techniques that will prevent you from becoming food.

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