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| So what is the basic technology of capturing bushmeat here (and recall that Doyle had a truce whereby their did not use their shotguns on monkeys, which also then generally meant that they did not carry them and use them on earth-bound game either)? This technology is not a trivial aspect of the human-to-nature ecosystem. As we walked the trails (for seemingly interminable hours) Papa Jean Marie glanced here and there at his set snares, often stepping over them on the trail. I was trying to count how many there were, but lost it after about 200 and I know that he checked many set snares without my seeing them, because he did not want me to know either their location nor their number. This was most dramatically reinforced when I stepped on one that he had zipped by without a glance or pause, and found myself with one foot more than a meter in the air, firmly snared by a loop of soft iron wire on the spring of a bent tree (see below). The basic snare is in this image, and the loop of wire is about 18 cm in diameter. The green cut off stick to the left is the top of a bent-over strong sapling that will snap upward when released, tightening the loop around the foot of the animal and suspending it (see below). | ||
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