To get food to them is not so simple.
If you think that in our world there are no more people who are fed exclusively by hunting and gathering, you are mistaken. Still where the option to stop by on the way from work to the store and buy something for dinner just doesn’t exist. In these wild places and live daredevils necessarily, which is regularly descend into ice caves and meet with lions nose-to-nose.
1. The Nepalese that produce honey, going down on ropes from the cliffs
It turns out that to risk your life just to eat honey, can not only Winnie the Pooh. Residents of one of the remote villages of Nepal regularly descend on ropes from the high cliffs, where the local bees like to arrange a beehive. The risk to which they are subjected, it is impossible to exaggerate, and all the gatherers of honey is well aware of. This is evidenced by the fact that many of the rocks bear the names off them sweet lovers of gold.
The collection process is well-coordinated team of professionals robbers insects.
Part of the team climbs up on the rock, the other part remains at the bottom and the kindle fire at its base, to little to drive away the bees, otherwise they from robbers living space won’t leave. As soon as the flames erupted, the group that is at the top, descends down a cliff attached to a rope ladder and a separate rope with baskets.
Then climbs the stairs to the main ACC with two long bamboo poles tied and starts blindly soorudit these poles in the hive.
Task — following directions from other team members to pick up the honeycomb and move them to the recycle bin, which then are on the ropes rise up. The duties of those that is on the ground, included moving the stairs to the right and left to sbrosit could inspect as many hives.
Despite the smoke and other precautions, the collector is constantly hanging in the cloud of angry insects that do not miss the opportunity to sting him in the face and hands. Most of the time he tries to Dodge, not forgetting, however, to seize a second to one sixth to bring the basket to the hive, and the other raking her cell. The whole process usually takes about an hour longer to withstand the unthinkable.
2. Masai steal prey from lions
At some point in history, little African people, the Masai have bothered to hunt themselves and they decided that it’s much simpler just insolently to take away the prey from the lions. Doesn’t sound very plausible, but we have a video where three of these guys take lunch at the stunned lions using only one weapon — an unheard-of audacity:
Men are shoulder to shoulder and decisive quick step went to the spot where the lions were about to eat svezhepoymannyh food. The Maasai do not cry, do not brandish a weapon, make no threatening signs, but the lions clearly dumbfounded and just in case, retire into the bushes, leaving all your hard-earned.
Long a bluff act, of course, can not, the lions enough a minute or two to recover, to realize that they just lit, and gobble up offenders. However, these people learned to act with lightning speed, in a minute they were gone.
3. Hunters of sea ducks at risk to break the rocks and drown
In the most deep, dark and remote corners of the picturesque coast of Spain produce their own bread-hunters of the sea ducks — the most expensive shellfish in the world. Kilogram of this delicacy is not less than 200 euros.
To get goose barnacles — the work is incredibly dangerous, every year die on average five hunters and all in order that visitors have the most expensive European restaurants to satisfy your food curiosity.
Barnacles live in the bases of sea cliffs in the most inaccessible places. Collectors operate in teams of at least two people. In turn they jump from rock to rock and dodging the incoming waves, trying to scrape off prey with stones. Once you stumble or slip on wet surfaces. Here’s a video of one such hunt:
Usually covering between the head waves of collectors, there is something about a minute to act. It may not seem so bad when you consider insurance modern equipment. The problem is that the habitat of the largest (and hence most valuable) crustaceans are at the base of the cliffs, where with the insurance to get is almost impossible. Here they demonstrate the wonders of parkour, jumping on the stones, hoping not to slip, not to smash the skull and not disappear completely in the ocean depths.
But the greater the risk, the bigger the reward. For two hours those guys in the video gathered goose barnacles approximately 800 euros.
4. The Eskimos mined mussels in the ice caves
Eskimo people of Northern Canada who call themselves “Inuit” eats the seal meat because other food is there is almost no (in these places, nothing grows). The monotony of the food they are so bored that they decided on a very dangerous enterprise — ice gathering mussels.
Most of the year the Arctic sea covered by a thick layer of ice. During low tide the water can recede on 12 meters, and the result is a hollow space under the huge ice formation. And then you can cut a hole to get down to the bottom of the sea and collect the harvest of mussels:
The assemblers are no more than an hour to leave the ice cave before the wave comes and catches the unwary into a death trap. Unless, of course, the ice which with the ebb practically hangs in the air, does not collapse to desperate collectors before. And all for a handful of mussels, which are eaten in one sitting.
5. The Sami castrate reindeer with their own teeth
The nomadic Saami people from Siberia have been breeding reindeer. Males traditionally castrated. The problem is that the nearest veterinary clinics in these places as there was, and there — Sami can count only on themselves. Therefore, these people still castrate animals as did their ancestors — that is, teeth. Or rather not even castrates and polyesterwith because the organs are not removed, but only are in disrepair.
For the procedure of polyacetale requires two. One throws a lasso, brings down the animal and presses them to the ground, and the other (or rather, the other — according to tradition, this work is entrusted only to women) sinks its teeth between the hind legs, chewing his furry dignity of a deer to mush.
Why does it have to do with the mouth, is unclear. But whatever it was, treated so fawn male hormones will be produced still, and so he will grow as big as and not neutered, but much less aggressive. If fawn neutered by all the rules, it will be much smaller, and the quality of the skins with the horns, it will be much worse, and the sled it will pull with less force.
Another advantage of such polyacetale — no open wounds and therefore the risk of infectious contamination, and this is extremely important in places where, as we have already said veterinary clinics had never been.
6. The villagers of Lamalera go to whales with harpoons
The Indonesian village of Lamalera unique at least the fact that its residents are free from the ban on whaling. All because their hunting looks like this:
Working day local whaler starts with fishing from the shore, during which he ceases to strain hard into the distance — will not flicker if the gigantic tail those that are up-over water fountain friend. If the visibility appears the whale, the men instantly launched their wooden boats and then a couple of hours working the oars, because no motors they have. They did not recognize the modern technologies in any form.
If Keith will kindly wait until the whalers reached the place, then in the back he will fly the harpoon. After that, Keith or pulls tail in its death throes, or with a light blow smashes the boat to pieces.
In the case favorable for whaling, the rest of the fishermen join who inflicted the first blow, and also begin to beat the whale with harpoons and other tools like a machete.
If one boat sinks, fishermen sail to the next, nearest. Once the whale smashed two boats, and the third brought to Timor — and this is a different country. In the end, many whalemen rushed into the water and began to beat the whale their knives into the sea, which is doubly dangerous when you consider that the blood of a wounded animal attracts sharks.
When Keith finally fizzles out and stops fighting, the fishermen dragged him to shore, singing a song in which appeal to its prey and at the same time with gratitude and apology.
After that, the entire village celebrates the victory and for some time has no need of any food or other important resources.
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