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[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 69 points 2 weeks ago (20 children)

i remember reading how eskimos would wrap sharp bone fragments in balls of fat and leave them for polar bears.. then they would follow the bears until they died of internal bleeding.

elephants are much smarter than bears though.

[–] JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Isnt there a similar thing where they put a blood soaked knife in the snow blade up and a wild wolf will come and lick the blood off, cutting their tongue on the blade and keep lapping at it not realising its their blood until they pass out.

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

That reminds me of how when there is a mosquito in your arm you can pinch the skin around it, trapping its sucker in your skin and at the same time violently blasting your blood into the mosquito until it's too fat to fly.

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