I put a bullet into the back of the croc... by Louis Leakey

Water Killing africa Archaeologist Paleoanthropologist

I put a bullet into the back of the crocodile's neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable.

- Louis Leakey

Other quotes by Louis Leakey

We set up the promised clinic for the sick and wounded Masai.

- Louis Leakey

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South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century.

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The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose.

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Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance.

- Louis Leakey

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I felt that in time simple stone tools would be found in early Pleistocene in England.

- Louis Leakey

Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price.

- Louis Leakey

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