only heard a "bang" sound, black leaf monkey fell to the ground from a tree tens of meters high. It did not fall to death, but died of poison.
This is the primeval rainforest in Malaysia. The Jiahai people have lived here for thousands of years. They hunt for a living, and the black leaf monkey is one of the staple foods. How did the born alert monkey get caught? Thanks to the special blow gun made by the Jiahai people, the poison dart in the gun is small and light. When shooting the prey, the speed can reach 180 kilometers per hour, and the poison dart is on it. The venom of is enough to kill an adult in a few minutes, which can be said to be a silent assassination.
In order to learn this ancient hunting technique, a white man came to the Jiahai tribe over the mountains and will spend ten days with the tribe. During this period, he also saw more useful skills. However, despite the presence of experienced hunters, the dangers of the pristine rainforest should not be underestimated. They may encounter huge Asian elephants at any time, or be used as lunch by fierce tigers. In fact, the reason why Jiahai people can only choose hunting instead of farming is because elephants will ruin their crops. They cannot store fresh meat or raise poultry at home, because tigers always wander around. Children in the village were taken away by them.
The ancient hunting weapon is therefore still in use today, and every part comes from the rain forest and is all handmade. The process is quite cumbersome and full of dangers. First of all, they have to go deep into the jungle to find an Ipoh tree and extract its sap. This liquid has a well-known name, called " Cardiac Glucoside". After passing through the blood into the body, Will reduce the heartbeat frequency, and finally stop it, the whole process lasts less than a few minutes. Judging from the appearance of this big tree, it is obviously a very commonly used tree by the Jiahai people.The tree trunk is already covered with knife marks.
Each poison dart is cut from the stalk of a palm leaf. It weighs about one gram and can be up to 30 cm in length. In order to ensure the stability of its flight, the dipping of the venom must also be precisely controlled. Two years ago, a hunter accidentally broke it while making a poison dart and slashed his arm. As a result, he was poisoned and died within a few minutes. The young child could only watch his father leave, because there was no The antidote, the tribesmen are also helpless.
Weapon making is one thing, if you want to master the skills of blowing arrows, you can't practice it overnight. The demonstrators have been hunting for decades, and they are not bothered by modern electronic products. They have excellent eyesight and can see prey hundreds of meters away. The birds and beasts active in the canopy are no more than a few tens of meters, which is a piece of cake for them.
Although white people can shoot targets at close range, they are far from strong enough. If poison darts cannot penetrate deep into the prey, the poison is not enough to make one of its tricks deadly, and it will also cause others. The alertness of the animal leads back empty-handed. Unsurprisingly, when the distance reached 50 meters, the dart shot by the white man fell directly on the target, and the hunter still performed steadily.
Three poles at sunrise, the hunters knew that the small animals were about to start moving. They tiptoed into the jungle, carefully observing every move on the tree. This time they are going to catch squirrels, whether they are visual or auditory, they are far superior to humans. But Jiahai people are well aware of their habits and are also good at integrating themselves with nature. When the white man hadn’t reacted, the hunters had already caught three squirrels ,Some were hung on tall trees. If they couldn't shake them down, they would climb up quickly to get them, then cut off the parts hit by the poison darts and bring them back to the tribe to share.
However, three squirrels can only eat one meal in a family, and many people need to hunt together to find more food. The porcupine is one of them. Porcupines are nocturnal creatures . They hide in caves during the day to sleep. They are very smart. They dug an entrance for themselves, and there are multiple exits on the other end for easy escape. The two ends are 18 meters apart, and the three caves of the cunning rabbit are no more. in this way. However, Jiahai people can catch turtles in the other urn by smoking. One person lit the dead branches at the entrance, fanned the smoke into the hole, and the companion at the exit held a fork waiting for the opportunity to move.
After a while, there was a billowing smoke from the exit, and a bat had been smoked out and he was so scared that he hurried to flee. The Jiahai people are fully absorbed, he has heard the movement of the porcupine. Sure enough, a small black head came out. The Jiahai people hurriedly aimed at it's back and pushed hard, and the porcupine struggled a few times and died.
But the hunt is not over yet, there is one in the cave, but I didn’t expect it to be smoked alive before it crawled out of the cave. died . The brave Jiahai hunter directly reached into the hole and pulled it out.
A porcupine has more than 30,000 bristles and weighs more than 60 catties. Together, these two can provide the people with more than 60 catties of meat.
In addition to eating meat from them, the bristles are also very useful for the Jiahai people. They will select a good-looking one, spit on it, wipe it clean, and put it directly on their nose, as a unique decoration of the Jiahai tribe, and also a symbol of glory for hunters.
In addition to the trees and the ground, the Jiahai people eat fish the most. However, they don't have any fishing gear and rely on direct materials given by nature. A toxin called rotenone , which is contained in at least 68 plants worldwide, is used by farmers as a natural pesticide. Its lethal principle is extraordinary. When the venom penetrates into the cell, it will directly prevent the cell from inhaling oxygen, causing suffocation. The hunters peeled off the bark, then beat on the stone, and then twisted and twisted in the water like washing clothes, the toxins would enter the water and flow down. Within three days, this creek would not be able to Drinking poisonous water, but only a small amount of rotenone will enter the body of the fish, and Jiahai people can eat it with confidence. During this period, children are forbidden to get involved, and the Jiahai people understand the principle of sustainable development. They only put poison in the water once a year to give fish breeding space.
However, due to the invasion of the Western world, the traditions of the Jiahai people are gradually dying out. Not only have they lost more and more territories, but their population has also decreased sharply. Today, Jiahai lives in this rainforest. There are fewer than nine hundred people. But they are still optimistic and active to survive in this land. Some people think that they are cruel to hunt animals, but the living conditions allow them to be compassionate. Here, like other creatures, they must follow the natural law of eating the weak and the strong.
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