For an outsider, a jungle may be just a piece of land covered with trees but for many indigenous tribes it is a living presence. Means it listens, reacts, protects and even sometimes warns. A study of the ecosystem may be a new phenomenon for modern science but tribal communities living, seeking and throughout centuries treated forests as conscious beings that are capable of memory and response. For outsiders, this belief may sound like something spiritual or symbolic but for those who live inside these jungles, their idea of an "alive" forest comes from daily experience. Like from patterns noticed over generations or behaviours observed in animals, plants, sounds or sudden changes in the environment.
