Another side to this type of work, is that the researchers who have to travel (and camp out) in “undisturbed” rainforests of South America in their scorpion quests, have the opportunity to gain insight into anything else that may be lurking in those remote areas (be it “undiscovered” tribes or…). One would really hope that in their highly-specialised focus in looking under leaf-litter on the forest floor or crevices in the rocks that they don’t overlook or ignore other much larger things (even when those are equally reticent or cryptic as the small scorpions).

Even if the mainstream science researchers are reluctant to report on anything unusual out in the forests (for understandable fear of losing “credibility”), there are many channels through which this information can be passed on anonymously to interested parties!