A wild boar and a bathroom break

Just last week we did mamal monitering which i when you get up at 5am have breakfast and then spend the entire morning (until 1pm) walking very slowly throug h the jungle hoping to spot some animals and then record their location and activity. Essentially it is the mother of all nature walks. The morning started off pretty good we saw a tapir which is pretty rare to see. THey`re adorable baby hippo/elephant things, it ran righ tnext too us. About threehours later we`re towards the end of the trail and to be honest I`m exhausted so Romeo tells me to go ahead and wait while he finishes up the trail. SO there I am sitting on alog by myself in the jungle with amachete. So I decide it`s been awhile, we have along trek back and the chances of stopping again are very slim, so eizing the oppurtunity I bound into the jungle with the machete. No sooner than I find a nice spot I hear some rustleing. Their behind me in the dense undergrowth is something very large, very fury , and very black. The first hting I can think of is Jaguar, I`m going to get eaten by ajaguar, figures. So there I am hiding behind a tree shaking in my wellie, brandishing amachete and preaying to God the thing doesn`t get any closer. And the nI ran up the trail over afew trees t oalittle clearing, the trail had gotten overgrown and I couldn`t tell which direction Romeo had gone. Completely convinced the thing was following me a hi in some bushes and waited. More rustling up ahead, ahorrible smell, and there was apack of pecaries (nasty knee high pigs that like to bite and travel in herds). When you hear pecaries the first thing your advised to do is get into the nearest tree, so still panicked from the run inwithwhat ithought was something that would eat me i climbed the nearest tree and waited. To say the least when Romeo came back to find nd me twenty minutes from where he left me, in atree, with a machete it was the cause of quite abit of laughter, we then went back to check out the prints of what I saw, not a jaguar, a wild boar.