Posted on 11/08/2018 7:41:27 AM PST by SMGFan
More than 400 buffaloes believed to have been chased by lions drowned in a river in northern Bostwana this week, the government said.
The mass drowning occurred in Chobe River near the border with Namibia.
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But a bbq is wonderful.
Quick, Buffalo BBQ for everyone in town, all you can eat!
Mugabe, you make the Potato salad ....and Kuswana you make the Slaw...and Tashawana you go get some BBQ sauce!!
Wednesday May 29th 1805.
-Today we passed on the Stard. side the remains of a vast many mangled carcases of Buffalow which had been driven over a precipice of 120 feet by the Indians and perished; the water appeared to have washed away a part of this immence pile of slaughter and still there remained the fragments of at least a hundred carcases they created a most horrid stench. In this manner the Indians of the Missouri distroy vast herds of buffaloe at a stroke; for this purpose one of the most active and fleet young men is scelected and ⟨being⟩ disguised in a robe of buffaloe skin, having also the skin of the buffaloe’s head with the years and horns fastened on his head in form of a cap, thus caparisoned he places himself at a convenient distance between a herd of buffaloe and a precipice proper for the purpose, which happens in many places on this river for miles together; the other indians now surround the herd on the back and flanks and at a signal agreed on all shew themselves at the same time moving forward towards the buffaloe; the disguised indian or decoy has taken care to place himself sufficiently nigh the buffaloe to be noticed by them when they take to flight and runing before them they follow him in full speede to the precepice, the cattle behind driving those in front over and seeing them go do not look or hesitate about following untill the whole are precipitated down the precepice forming one common mass of dead an mangled carcases; the ⟨Indian⟩ decoy in the mean time has taken care to secure himself in some cranney or crivice of the clift which he had previously prepared for that purpose. the part of the decoy I am informed is extremely dangerous if they are not very fleet runers the buffaloe tread them under foot and crush them to death, and sometimes drive them over the precipice also, where they perish in common with the buffaloe. –
Meriwether Lewis
Just more thug behavior by the Detroit Lions.
Meanwhile the crocodiles were very happy and well fed.
We have been lied to, repeatedly!
I knew you couldn’t trust the Shriners or the Masons, but the Lions too?
It is horrible the effects that climate change is having on the environment.
I guess we will find out that ALL the Lions voted for President Trump and their ‘gang activities’ are rising rapidly.
A Mrs Nature (Mother to her friends) was babbling something about how the creatures do their own policing and mentioned that those that weren’t drowned made up for meals for a whole lot of jungle creatures and those that were drowned made for some mighty fine eating for the water creatures.
Some thing about BALANCE.
The WH refused comment saying it was an ongoing investigation
That was the best way, although a wasteful way, to feed the tribe before the tribes all acquired the horse and the familiar Plains Horse Culture began. Otherwise it was really a challenge to hunt them since bison would easily destroy a man on foot with nothing but a bow or spear in his hands.
Some of the buffalo jumps contained so many individual buffalo piled atop one another they Indians couldn’t possibly extricate and butcher them all before the corpses below rotted. So they took the best parts and camped nearby gorging themselves and preserving what they could until it was an intolerable mess fit only for prairie wolf, coyote, bear, and birds of prey.
The stereotypical plains culture of hunting bison from horseback didn’t come about until the Spanish introduced the horse and the tribes like the Nez Pierce leaned to break and ride them.
I have always understood that Plains Indians could do a pretty good job of killing a bison while on foot, it was just more fun and machismo to use a horse.
Were they domestic buffalo or wild? It’s hard to tell from the picture: maybe wild Cape Buffalo?
We killed a fair number of water buffalo who were on or near the Ho Chi Minh Trail. 5”/38 high explosive shells don’t leave much meat left on the bone.
Crocs probably didn’t leave much meat on these.
Should have taken the bridge.
And lived to 45, if they were lucky.
Wow! Thanks for sharing that!
Was that part of the Lewis and Clark story in Undaunted Courage? I read that most wonderful book in one sittting, but don’t recall this recollection.
The indians learned to ride and break horses from the Spaniards?
Yep.
Lots of times, they only took the tongues.
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