INTERVIEWER: You know so much about the wildlife here, PK. How come?
BUSHMAN: My family are San, bush people, and I learned about nature from the time when I was a child. I was born in the Kalahari.
INTERVIEWER: And you grew up and found your wife here?
BUSHMAN: Yes, finding a wife here was very interesting.
INTERVIEWER: Tell us more.
BUSHMAN: Yes, let's say a young man wants to marry a girl. So he has to ask her father and he says before you can marry my daughter, you have to do a task.
INTERVIEWER: OK. So what type of task does the young man have to do, PK?
BUSHMAN: Well, for example, he has to show that he can take a kill away from a lion.
INTERVIEWER: What do you mean ‘take a kill away from a lion'?
BUSHMAN: Well, imagine a lion kills an antelope or another large animal. The young man has to find that lion and get the meat, so he can show that he has courage. That's important for his future family.
INTERVIEWER: Wow, but how can you do that? How can you find a lion and its kill?
BUSHMAN: You have to look. You have to look for the big birds, the vultures. They are watching the lion because they want some of the meat.
INTERVIEWER: OK, so let's say you find the lion and its kill. How can you then get the meat? Isn't that dangerous?
BUSHMAN: Yes, of course the lion is dangerous. You mustn't take the meat away from the lion at night. You have to do that during the day.
INTERVIEWER: Why's that?
BUSHMAN: During the day it's very hot. And the big cats can't run fast when it's hot. A man can run even when it's very hot, but lions can't.
INTERVIEWER: No?
BUSHMAN: No, they can't. When they eat some meat, they feel very, very hot and get very tired. So they often just lie around and they sleep all the time during the day. At night they are more dangerous because they don't sleep. And at night their eyes are better than your eyes. So you can't get the kill from the lion at night.
INTERVIEWER: OK, so you have to do that during the day. But what do you do to get the kill from the lion?
BUSHMAN: OK. So let's say the lion is sleeping. You hold your spear in your hand. You have to be very quiet. And you go up to that lion.
INTERVIEWER: Do you attack him with your spear? Kill him?
BUSHMAN: No, no, no, no. You just go up to him and shout Arrrrggggghhhhh! You mustn't hurt him or kill him, just surprise him, shock him, so he runs away.
INTERVIEWER: Wow!