Until reading this archived tidbit, I was blissfully unaware that such a practice existed, let alone had a name. However, since you brought it up, I feel your list of such practices is incomplete without mentioning this story. I read once that Native Alaskans had a method for hunting grizzly bear that invovled placing a certain springy bone from a seal, folded in half and then placed inside a piece of fish or seal meat, and then allowing it to freeze. This was the bait. Many of these baits were prepared, and distributed, around the hunting ground. The bear would find them, and swallow them whole. After some time in the belly of the bear, the meat would thaw, releasing the bone, which would spring open and puncture the bears stomach. The more bait eaten, the more holes punched in the bears gut. Obviously, this was not a speedy death for the animal; indeed, they would bleed to death internally over a period of days or weeks. While the bear slowly bled to death, the hunters would follow it, subsisting on it’s excrement, which was high in protein, as it was mainly excreting it’s own blood; it’s tummy ache being such that it had ceased eating anything else.The bloody droppings not only kept the hunters on the trail of the bear, they kept them fed, as well. Yum, Yum.
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- Let me be the first to say – Ewwwwwwwwwww :rolleyes: