Timehri : the journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana . mon as this animal appears to preferan habitation in the vicinity of human beings and has a habit of gnawingold bones or other rubbish which can always be found near or aboutsuch places. When certain palms and forest trees are in fruit it is always certainthat at least one labba will know of it and nightly repair thence toenjoy a good feed. The Awarra Palm (Astrocaryum tucwmoides) when bearing ripefruit attracts both acourie and labba, likewise the Akuyuro Palm(Astrocaryum tucuma). The Indians know that
Timehri : the journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana . mon as this animal appears to preferan habitation in the vicinity of human beings and has a habit of gnawingold bones or other rubbish which can always be found near or aboutsuch places. When certain palms and forest trees are in fruit it is always certainthat at least one labba will know of it and nightly repair thence toenjoy a good feed. The Awarra Palm (Astrocaryum tucwmoides) when bearing ripefruit attracts both acourie and labba, likewise the Akuyuro Palm(Astrocaryum tucuma). The Indians know that between March andApril every year these palms are bearing fruit and they consequently lookfor the tracks of the game in the neighbourhood of such palms and settheir traps accordingly. Tracks through the bush, made by labba or acourie for instance,are readily distinguishable. Definite proof as to which animal is in the * Some technological notes from the Poraeroon District. British Guiana. By Walter , Jour, of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. XLI, 1911, :;:..-:.
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