A welcome committee sat waiting for us as we stepped into the village. The skulls were licked clean and mounted on rusted nails. Curved horns of water buffalo, the thin jaws of deer and curled teeth of wild boar revealed our predator before we had set eyes on it. As we stepped onto the jetty,…
Tag: attack
A Monkey Mugging
I considered the carved coconuts in front of me. This one was the best size, but it was a little lopsided. I liked the shape of this one yet the design was not as intricate. I eventually whittled it down to two. The first had fine swirling leaves, whereas the second had birds of paradise…
Salties
Hypercarnivorous apex predator. The three most chilling words in the English language. “This is what we do if we get attacked. You go for the eyes, or if you’re caught in its mouth, you need to reach to the back and past the tongue. There’s a flap there which stops water flooding their lungs.” Tom…
Ferns and forest 