A wonderful quote from an interview of Jonathan Kingdon (author of Field Guide to African Mammals) in this week's New Scientist:
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I have enduring memories of an incident in Tanganyika when I had a Hadza guy walking in front of me. He had a quiver full of poisoned arrows. There were swarms of tsetse flies, and we were all getting bitten like mad. He pulled an arrow out and scratched a tsetse fly bite with the tip, then put it back into his holder. That tells you about the precision of people who live like that. They can use a poison arrow to scratch themselves with complete confidence while they are walking and they don't even break their stride.
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