they hunt in Silence the hand sign indicates that one of them has found the track of a group of kudu these are the sand people of the Kalahari Desert the last tribe on Earth to use what some believe is the most ancient hunting technique of all the persistence hunt they run down their prey they start to feel the rhythm of the animals movements from the spacing of the tracks the group is not moving [Music] fast the animals have taken fright they will concentrate on the bull he will be carrying a heavy set of horns and therefore will Tire more quickly to do that they must separate him from the herd so that his tracks won't be confused by those of [Music] others the sun is directly overhead and the men sense a change in the kudo's pace he's [Music] slowing after hours of tracking they've entered an almost trans-like state of concentration [Music] ation at times it's impossible to see any sign of the kudo's tracks and the hunters must imagine the path it will have [Music] taken the heat is hard on the hunters but they're now close enough for the next stage in the hunt the chase [Music] this is the signal for it to [Music] begin but only one man will undertake it Koo the runner he must be [Music] relentless it's now a test of endurance who will collapse first the man or the animal this was how men hunted before they had weapons when a hun hunt had nothing more than his own physical endurance with which to gain his prize running on 2 ft is more efficient over long distances than running on four a man sweats from glands all over his body and so cools himself a kudu sweats much less and has to find shade if it's to cool down and a man has hands with which to carry water so during the Chase he can replenish the liquid he loses as sweat hours pass and Koo is getting closer but then the Kudo runs into thick [Music] cover the tracks have disappeared Caro tries to put himself into the mind of the kudu and himself reenacts the a moment when it heard him approaching as it tried to rest in the shade he deduces the direction in which it must have fled it's close by the Chase has lasted 8 hours Hunter and Hunted are both at the end of their strength neither can go on much [Music] longer and then the kudu collapses from sheer exhaustion it's close to death koo's spear throw now is scarcely more than a symbolic gesture [Music] [Music] the hunter pays tribute to his quarry's courage and strength with ceremonial gestures that ensure that its Spirit returns to the desert sands from which it came while it was alive he lived and breathed with it and felt its every movement in his own body and at the moment of its death he shared its pain he rubs its saliva into his own legs to relieve the agony of his burning muscles and he gives thanks for the life he has taken so that he may sustain the lives of his family waiting for him back in their settlement