Wild Beauty - "How to Catch Bamboo Rats Out of Burrows/ Bushcraft & Survival"
release date: 1/4/2022
genre: wilderness Youtube channel
viewing setting: streaming 10/25/23
synopsis: This Youtube channel shares videos of a woman roaming the jungle and building, killing, cooking, and eating things.
impressions: This one's only 18 minutes, but it's fairly interesting. It starts out with her reminiscing about her food being out because she wasn't able to carry it when evacuating from the forest fire; I love the continuity, even if we're missing entire episodes between these events. So she emerges from her newly-constructed underground shelter and sets out to find food, somehow picking up the monkey from a tree along the way (and the dog has to keep up as best as he can.) Later, the monkey rides along on the dog's back as the woman continues on her quest...and suddenly she finds a burrow belonging to a bamboo rat. This animal isn't at all happy that its home is being excavated, and it growls a lot until she lures it out and...the video freezes, presumably to spare us viewers from having to watch her kill the thing. Next thing we know, she's back at her camp building a fire, and there's the rat, skinned and spitted and being put there to cook. Man, that was fast. And the next thing you know, the bamboo rat - only dug out of its burrow mere minutes ago in the span of this video - is being eaten for dinner. (For the record, the dog refuses to try the cooked bamboo rat.) But what's this? "Dark clouds are coming...I need to move quickly." She's talking about how her shelter will be flooded, and she packs everything up and leaves; the dog doesn't seem to want to go, maybe because that will mean some exertion on his part.
link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc2eBhcBAf4
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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