Life among the monkey hunters: Extraordinary photos reveal the Amazon tribe that EATS primates they have learned to catch by climbing trees and shooting them with blowpipes

British photographer Pete Oxford took these amazing photographs of the Huaorani tribe, who live in the rainforests of Ecuador, by a tributary of the mighty Amazon river. A Huaorani man returns from a day hunting monkeys in the jungle (centre). They are experts at
shinning up trees and lying in wait for the primates, which they kill with poisoned darts fired from blowpipes (bottom left). Monkey meat is a staple of their diet, which also includes peccary pigs and toucans aswell as plants and herbs foraged in the forest by the women. But the tree climbing plays havoc with their feet (bottom right).