Mayans

The Mayans were an amazingly hard working civilisation. They lived in the steamy jungles of southern Mexico. They built many pyramids with amazing carvings, not unlike the Egyptian pyramids. The Mayans had to live alongside many dangerous animals such as jaguars, caimans (a fierce species of crocodiles), bull sharks and lots of poisonous snakes. Some of the animals the Mayan people hunted were deer turkeys and peccaries (a pig like mammal). They also hunted tapirs (a nocturnal hoofed mammal with a short snout), rabbits and large rodents.
 * The Mayans **