When anthropologists first overflew the area, they saw women and children in the open and no one appeared to be painted. It was only when the plane returned a few hours later that they saw these individuals covered head-to-toe in red. Tribes in the Amazon paint themselves for all kinds of different reasons, one of which includes when they feel threatened or are aggressive. Other uncontacted groups in the region, whose homes have been photographed from the air, are in severe danger from illegal logging in Peru and populations are being decimated..
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