Post by Molly on Dec 30, 2005 1:45:56 GMT -5
I don't know how many have seen this show, but it's a show where this guy lives with a tribe for a while (each episode is a different tribe, and he goes all over the world). The show is on the Discovery Channel.
Well, on one of the episodes tonight, he was with a tribe (I forget where) called the Suri. Anyway, these people have a lot of cattle, and they drink the milk AND BLOOD of the cattle. It showed where one or two people held the animal's head, and another shoots a small arrow (it looked like) into the neck, apparently hitting a vein. They removed the arrow, then drained what looked like about a pint of blood from the animal into a bowl, then pinched the wound site for a couple minutes to stop the bleeding and the animal walked away. The show said they do this to each animal about once per month, and the people wanted the guy to drink all of it (which he didn't, though he drank as much as could stand to). Anyway, the point is, this tribe drinks the LIVE blood of these animals on a regular basis, which I found pretty cool.
Well, on one of the episodes tonight, he was with a tribe (I forget where) called the Suri. Anyway, these people have a lot of cattle, and they drink the milk AND BLOOD of the cattle. It showed where one or two people held the animal's head, and another shoots a small arrow (it looked like) into the neck, apparently hitting a vein. They removed the arrow, then drained what looked like about a pint of blood from the animal into a bowl, then pinched the wound site for a couple minutes to stop the bleeding and the animal walked away. The show said they do this to each animal about once per month, and the people wanted the guy to drink all of it (which he didn't, though he drank as much as could stand to). Anyway, the point is, this tribe drinks the LIVE blood of these animals on a regular basis, which I found pretty cool.