World's Most Incredible Tribes Episode 2: Developing a Deadly Poison

World's Most Incredible Tribes Episode 2: Developing a Deadly Poison

Sansevieria sp. Muidumbe 1 (Photo credit: tonrulkens)

The root of chewed Sansevieria (ground with a strong toxin), mixed with the liquid of the larvae and seed powder, resulting in a venom capable of killing a man in a short time, and there is no known antidote
possible.

In the camp the men prepare for the development of the potion. No hurry. The rush is a western concept, and here we want to hear about it. "In the West have the watches, but we possess the time."

Sansevieria ehrenbergii in habitat. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The first step is to scrape and crush the seed of a endemic tree to the Kalahari Desert to turn it into
a fine powder. While some prepare arrows, others develop the poison. His expert hands are extracting small larvae. Once you start seized well head and like a tube of glue, is empty inside a giraffe bone. These spheres are actually wrap a beetle larvae whose body fluids produce a deadly poison.

With the poison ready, is just spreads the arrows. Every hunter thoroughly permeat
es darts, being careful that the substance is not in contact with the wounds they have in their body.

The arrows are neither large nor their tips too sharp they do not seek the death of their prey by the impact or wounds. The small metal spikes are strong enough to make a wound in the animal and the poison will do the rest of work.

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