Sentences with phrase «poison arrows in»

Although nowadays many San tribes that have used bowhunting and poison arrows in the past have abandoned them due to restrictions, modern tools and change of lifestyle in general, the familiarisation, adoption and development of poison weapons dating back to Ancient times are excellent examples of the cognitive shifts in human evolution.

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First he must survive the arrows and poisons of the entrenched Powers That Be in the Vatican and beyond.

Previous work has estimated that poison - tipped arrows may have been used as far back as 24,000 BP (years before present), and the researchers conclude that this technology, better known from southern Africa, may also have been used 13,000 BP in eastern Africa.

Coss» paper grew out of a 2015 study in which he and a former graduate student reported that zebras living near human settlements could not be approached as closely before fleeing as wild horses when they saw a human approaching on foot — staying just outside the effective range of poisoned arrows used by African hunters for at least 24,000 years.

What do the toxins from arrow - poison frogs, puffer fish and scorpions have in common with drugs against epilepsy?

«The discovery of arrow poisons was a significant evolutionary step for humankind, yet we are facing the last opportunity to document arrow - poison use in southern African hunter - gatherer societies.»

Thus, if there is any lesson to be learned from Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs, it's that there's nothing new about biological and chemical weapons — or in the universal hypocrisy surrounding their use.

There's the vehicular death of Buckley the beagle in The Royal Tenenbaums; the abandonment and Goldblumian slapping of the three - legged Cody in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou; the poisoning of Spitz (another beagle) in Fantastic Mr. Fox; and Anderson «s most notorious canine death, a fox terrier named Snoopy getting fatally run through with an arrow in Moonrise Kingdom.

They can point out sloths, monkeys and iguanas hiding in the trees, show you poison arrow frogs, and tell you all about the Costa Rica wildlife residing in the rainforest.

The rarity not only provides better stats but special perks like «poison - tipped arrows» or «Generates Adrenaline» which is a new mechanic that can be used in combat.

Players can also coat their arrows in different status ailment effects like poison and paralysis to get a leg up in battle, and has a special move where the player fires an arrow in the air and comes down with an effect like an explosion.

These are like the invasion phantoms, but have the same respawn rate as regular mobs and some of these fuckers hurt... I honestly can't kill the one in the Iron Keep near the last Bonfire, and there are offers I have to cheese with poison arrows to pass.

Kill the horde of Skull warriors and collect the ectoplasm to set up towers and defenses whenever the magic stones light up: CATAPULTS, to throw flame to the enemy; BARRICADES, to block the attackers in their path; BARRELS, to shoot fire arrows and explode them in the middle of a skeleton legion; POISON PLANTS, to hit the warriors and slay them slowly while they walk... There are diverse types of magic energy to use at war: LIGHTNING, to defeat targets with metal or steel armor; FIRE, to burn light armor troops and blow up the exploding barrels; ICE, to turn your victims into ice cubes and slow them down; POISON, just one drop and the victim will succumb little by little to its toxic effects; STUN, to shoot and make their heads spin and leave them stupefied; EXPLOSIVE, to send everything flying with its strong TNT head... Use all with the different kind of arrows and do individual, radius or multiple damage.

Hours later I was taken by surprised and killed by a seemingly random arrow that was coated in poison.

Contrary to statements made by Sea Shepherd during Bethune's pre-trial jailing in Japan that Bethune had not been authorized to carry a bow and arrow during the Antarctic campaign, Bethune says that the idea was to use to coat the arrows in some sort of poison, fire them into dead whales as they were being transferred for processing.

The arrows are poison darts she and Richard acquired while living in Malaysia.