1. Crossbow hunter beside a hut in a forest camp. Baka forest camps

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Bow & Crossbow Hunting

Photos, texts and audio recordings
by Luis Devin

Soundscape: Greater Spot-nosed Monkey vocalizations
(Cercopithecus nictitans). In the background, African rainforest sounds.

2. Baka hunter with a Greater Spot-nosed Monkey (Cercopithecus nictitans) shot with poisoned arrows. Animals and environment of the African rainforest

3. Baka children sitting around a just-caught Guereza Colobus.

4. Red-tailed Monkey (Cercopithecus ascanius).

5. Baka hunter preparing the poison for bow and crossbow arrows.

6. Hunter with bow and poisoned arrows in front of a leaf hut. Forest camps

7. Luis Devin with a Baka hunter leaving for a crossbow hunt.

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