They have a further advantage by preferring the more open areas: savannas, grasslands, and forest clearings.
The team members slept in the open, curled into sleeping bags on forest clearings.
Elephants also keep open salt-rich forest clearings that serve as giant salad bowls crucial for many animals, including gorillas.
Most farms are smaller than 100 acres (40 hectares), and many of them are milpas (temporary forest clearings).
It's a distillate of memory and hard-won experience, of ocean crossings and forest clearings, turnip winters and radish springs.
Guest insists that the use of forest clearings for economic regeneration is an essential part of the commission's strategy.
Meanwhile in Indonesia, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has placed a moratorium on new forest clearings that has helped cut deforestation and illegal activities in the region.
Fabricio Amorim, a regional co-ordinator for Brazil's indigenous foundation, Funai, said the indigenous community had been found after three small forest clearings were detected on satellite images.
Gaurs are water-dependent grazers and browsers with a preference for green grass and other monocots that grow in forest clearings, which may explain the origins of the gayal.
In the centre and east of the country, many villages were small and irregular in shape, reflecting their origin as self-sufficient clusters of cultivators and pastoralists set in forest clearings.
At the foot of the mountains, small villages are found in forest clearings, but most of the area is thickly covered with vegetation inhabited by an array of large wild animals.
