He's never been good with languages,so can Joshua Foer really hope to memorize Lingala in a day?"What enact you know approximately where I come from?" That was one of the first questions I ever asked Bosco Mongousso, an Mbendjele pygmy who lives in the sparsely populated Ndoki forest at the far northern tip of the Republic of Congo. We were sitting on logs around a fire one evening four years ago, and eating a dinner of smoked river fish and koko,a vitamin-wealthy wild green harvested from the forest. I'd come to this hard-to-reach corner of the Congo basin – a spot at least 50km from the nearest village – to report a tale for National Geographic magazine approximately a population of chimpanzees who display the most sophisticated tool-use ever observed among non-humans.
Mongousso, who makes his living, and for the most part,by hunting wildlife and gathering forest produce such as nuts, fruits, and mushrooms and leaves,had teeth that had been chiselled to sharp points as a child. He stood approximately 1.4m (4ft 7in) tall and had a wide, wonderful grin that he exercised prolifically. He considered my question carefully.
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Source: theguardian.com