Nocturnal Gardeners: The Case of Tent-Roosting Bats https://www.botany.one/the-jungles-heaviest-courier-service-the-case-of-tent-roosting-bats/ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/btp.70179

"Unlike #birds, many #bats do not consume fruit where they find it; they capture it in flight and transport it to a safe refuge to eat in peace. In the case of tent-roosting bats, these shelters are plant leaves that the bats themselves modify to form a kind of tent or canopy... Tent-roosting bats of #Mexico's #Lacandon #Rainforest disperse up to 79.8 million large seeds annually"

‎American Indian Airwaves: Cartel Carnage and State Colonialism in the Lacandon Area of Chiapas, Mexico: Indigenous Survivance on Apple Podcasts

‎Show American Indian Airwaves, Ep Cartel Carnage and State Colonialism in the Lacandon Area of Chiapas, Mexico: Indigenous Survivance - Oct 5, 2023

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United Fruit Company documentary filmed in 1949.

Maya ruins, the Lacandon Maya people, and footage of the murals of Bonampak shortly after global discovery.

https://youtu.be/67DRwY3KZUA

#Maya #Mesoamerica #Archeology #Bonampak #Chiapas #Lacandon

The Maya Through The Ages

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Less than 1,000 members of the #Lacandon people live in the jungles of the State of #Chiapas, #Mexico where they remained practically isolated until well advanced the 20th century. Their language (jach t’aan – the “real speech”) is similar to that of the #Yucatec #Maya, their closest relatives within the #Mayan group. Many of them still worship gods such as “Hachakyum” - a solar deity - and consider the archaeological sites of Palenque and Bonampak as the sacred sites of their ancestors.