And other stories from the stranger side of life
The late archaeologist Mary Leakey and her husband once drank puddles of rhinoceros urine during a dig in Tanzania, according to a new book. “They filtered it through charcoal, boiled it and drank it as a tea with lemon,” wrote Michael Scott. “But they could still taste rhino.” On another occasion, they drank pools that had collected in the sagging roof of their tent, forgetting that the canvas had been treated with insecticide. “They were violently ill,” Scott added, “and returned to drinking lemon-scented rhino pee.”
