Wild Beauty - "Detecting wild boar - craft some primitive traps.../ Bushcraft & Survival - Part 3"
release date: 12/14/2021
genre: wilderness Youtube channel
viewing setting: streaming 10/20/23
synopsis: This Youtube channel shares videos of a woman roaming the jungle and building, killing, cooking, and eating things.
impressions: In this 25-minute episode, the woman basically hunts a dangerous wild boar that's been intruding in the area around her new home. First things first, this one starts with "Day 3" and the last dated one was "Day 1" so we're missing day 2. Things kick off with her having apparently added sharpened spikes all around the hut she built last time. And finally, after fourteen other episodes, THE MONKEY MAKES HIS DEBUT! That's right, in addition to the dog, she now has a monkey. Oh, also, the seeds she threw all over her new mud house last time are now sprouting, so that answers that. More subtitles reveal the reason for the spikes: she's uneasy because of the sounds of wild boars overnight. So what's she going to do about it? "Today I will try to catch them." Man, she's badass. Meanwhile, her dog has its silly red coat on again, and is lying there on his back being lazy. Oh, and look: the monkey's name is Nu. We find this out as she tells both animals to drink water from a big leaf, although only the monkey listens. So far, this is the most awesome episode ever, and we’re not even two minutes in!
So she straps on her big knife and off she goes into the jungle to cut town a ton of big bamboo branches. Meanwhile, the monkey has joined the dog in slumber, and is actually sleeping on his crotch. All righty then. As the woman cuts up the bamboo, the monkey wakes up and seems preoccupied with the dog's crotch (to be fair, later, he's sitting on top of the dog's sleeping, inert torso.) During all that inactivity, the woman uses bamboo leaves to make a door for her little house, and then a ladder to get up into a tree...where thirty minutes later she spots a boar in the jungle, more than a hundred feet away, but she spooks it and it leaves. Undaunted, she climbs down and makes a spear, talking about using the traps the natives taught her to catch it. She's definitely taking this wild boar seriously, as is the monkey, who's riding ON HER BOSOM as she marches through the jungle with her new spear. The dog follows, stopping to munch on some grass.
She soon finds some recent tracks made by the beast, and builds some concealed snare traps along the path. And now she's back at home weaving a bowl, while the monkey mostly hangs off of her chest. I have to say, the big sharp spikes really make her place look fortified. And now she's used the basket to catch some shrimp, while the monkey pokes around in the stream (and presumably the dog is somewhere nearby, sleeping.) The episode ends with her cooking the shrimp inside a piece of bamboo, and eating it (and feeding it to the monkey, although the dog refuses to try it.) As for the idea of catching the wild boar...I'm not sure what happened there. Maybe in the next episode?
link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_0RBCQmbtY
acting: There's no acting; this is a woman doing cool stuff in the wilderness.
final word: Interesting bushcraft/survival web content.
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