Have you seen this?

Impressive:
The hunt.
The hunter.
The hunted.
And of course, Attenborough - a remarkable film maker.

very artistic but I don't think it has much to do with life as it is today. looks kinda like a reality show on TV

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Originally posted by ddrhook:
very artistic but I don't think it has much to do with life as it is today. looks kinda like a reality show on TV

Sprinkled with a fair amount of BS - a bushman wearing sprinters and socks? Gimme a break!

According to the the manager of Edo's Camp, a spot in Botswana where we spent a couple of days, this video was shot on their property.

Bobby B.

Thanks for sharing. Very interesting.

It makes one wonder how that camera man kept up with the runner - unless he followed along in a vehicle.

These San people are impressive. After finishing a leopard hunt in Botswana a few years ago my wife and I wanted to see them track a lion just for fun. We followed along in the Land Rover while the bushmen ran the track and eventually we all caught up with a massive black maned lion.

Typical Attenborough crap.

Lots of small "grabs" edited together to make a story.

Must have been a bloody fit camera man.

Emotive garbage.

And from the little I know or have read of the traditional San people the way the water he had was spilled when he drank and then poured over his head seemed false. The film seems to have more flaws every time I see it. The final spear through didn't seem to penetrate even to the depth of the blade, symbolic or not.

Von Gruff.

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Originally posted by Von Gruff:
And from the little I know or have read of the traditional San people the way the water he had was spilled when he drank and then poured over his head seemed false. The film seems to have more flaws every time I see it. The final spear through didn't seem to penetrate even to the depth of the blade, symbolic or not.

Von Gruff.

Not to mention the fact that the kudu was drugged, not exhausted.

Looks like dramatic done for the camera BS to me. That Kudu was obviously drugged. Sorry but I'm not buying this one.

ya the camera man could fly too!! even Dave Fulson is not that good ya ya ya I know Dave will get me for that one

What? No fist pumps and woo hoo's???

Points to ponder:
1 This was not filmed yesterday or even last week, It is a way of life that is rapidly dissapearing and will soon be just a memory.

2) If you have not had the priveledge of seeing San Bushman track game, then I can understand the sceptisism in some of the earlier posts.

3)Was the video shot as it occurred or were re-creations used to get the story told? I do not know. But was this a true hunting technique utilized by the San? Absolutely!

4)Do the San use other hunting techniques as well? Yes, they hunt with bow and arrow.Their tiny bows have no where near enough energy to kill the animal but serve to deliver one of several types of poisons that they make. Once the animal is struck , the bushman take it's trail and follow it for as long as it takes for the poison to do it's job.On an eland or a giraffe it can take days.

I think people are too quick to cry BS.

Credit where it is due, David Attenborough has done some remarkable work over the decades.

There is no way that David Attenborough would risk a reputation forged over decades of wildlife programming for the BBC to drug a kudu for the camera.

It is even more remarkable that they show an animal being killed by humans. You can imagine the reaction that the BBC would have got for this. You can be sure they would want everything to be 'squeaky clean' before wading into that controversy.