Australia's Norforce, the military units to cover the Northern Territory, is 60 percent aboriginal. They can detect enemies much, much faster (and from much, much further away) than their white mates. Without any resupply, they can survive for weeks, or months if necessary, solely on bush tucker.
"We hunt for kangaroo and goanna and find witchetty grubs, oysters, wild yams," Corporal Tommy Munyarrun, 45, of the Wanguri tribe, said. "We teach the white blokes what they can eat, and they teach us army stuff." (Nick Squires, The New Zealand Herald, 5 May 2005)
Their greatest emeny? Giant crocodiles. This is the kind of knowledge I've always wanted to learn!
