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Toxic Hunting...

Aboriginal hunters in the northern Kalahari desert in Africa use arrows poisoned with the larval extract of certain indigenous beetles.

They prepare the arrows in three ways:

1. They squeeze the contents of a larva directly onto an arrowhead;
   
   
2. They mix larvae with plant juice, spit and tree gum, then smear the resulting glop onto the arrowhead;
   
   
3. They dry the larvae, then pound them into a powder that can be reconstituted with plant juice and spit when needed.
   
   

The beetle poison is sufficiently toxic to kill a hare in a few minutes or a giraffe within a few days.

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