This is no spontaneous interspecies encounter in the forest. Elodia raised this capuchin monkey to act as a sensor to locate dangerous beings such as snakes, spiders, and ants; the capuchin is a huiba companion animal. Huibana (wēē bah’ nah) is the capture and raising of a forest animal by Quichua Indigenous people who live along the Bobonaza river in the Ecuadorian Amazon.