文档介绍:“埃博拉”病毒
Once, while traveling as a passenger in an inter-state taxi, a wild animal had the misfortune of running onto the highway. Without thinking, our driver swerved―not to avoid, but to kill the animal, which he did, though at the price of a shattered headlamp and 2)dented 3)fender.
That a driver could spontaneously elect to use his car to 4)bludgeon an animal to death, knowing that it could result in an accident or damage to the vehicle, was not as surprising to the passengers as was his next move; he opened the 5)partment of the Peugeot 504 6)station wagon and somehow squeezed the dead animal inside for the rest of the journey.
He was apparently unbothered by the damage to the taxi, didn’t care about the dangers of the toxic oven he’d improvised and certainly had no apologies to the passengers, though he clearly put our lives in danger by using the vehicle as a hunting weapon. The satisfied smile on his face for the rest of the journey was that of a man looking forward to a huge feast of 7)bushmeat.
The driver’s attitude is not much different from that of many Nigerians to wildlife; meat. It doesn’t matter if it is a deer, monkey, 8)grass cutter, 9)antelope, snake, 10)gazelle, elephant, 11)rhino, hippo or 12)vulture. The sight of w
ildlife instantly 13)conjures images of steamed, fried or roasted meat. It is not an accident the bushmeat industry is a billion 14