Pete Oxford / Huaorani Indian making Curare tipped darts. Curare is one of the most toxic poisons known to man and is made from a liana. The poison is boiled on the fire. The dart tips are dipped into the poison wh...

Pete Oxford / Huaorani Indian making Curare tipped darts. Curare is one of the most toxic poisons known to man and is made from a liana. The poison is boiled on the fire. The dart tips are dipped into the poison wh...

JEFF FOOTT / Indian / Asian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) darted for sedation prior to translocation to Royal Bardia NP, Chitwan NP, Nepal, 2003

JEFF FOOTT / Indian / Asian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) before collapsing, darted for sedation prior to translocation to Royal Bardia NP, Chitwan NP, Nepal, 2003

Mark Moffett / Embera Choco Indian making a blowgun for hunting with poisoned darts, Colombia

Mark Moffett / Embera Choco Indian making a blowgun for hunting with poisoned darts, Colombia

Mark Moffett / Embera Choco Indians capture highly toxic Golder Poison Frog (Phyllobates terribilis) with which to poison darts for hunting, Colombia

Pete Oxford / Huaorani indian prepares darts for blow gun, indigenous rainforest tribe, Napo Province Ecuador

Mark Moffett / Golden Poison Dart Frog (Phyllobates terribilis) group used by Embera Choco Indians to poison their darts for hunting, Colombia

PREMAPHOTOS / Edible snails courtship / mating (Helix pomatia) UK. In the mating season, all snails are male, exchanging sperm by hypodermic insertion of "love darts". Later on, the snails become female and fertili...

Mark Moffett / Embera Choco people use a distinctive kind of blowgun and secretion from Golden Poison Dart Frog (Phyllobates terribilis) to poison on their darts for hunting, Colombia

Mark Moffett / Golden Poison Dart Frog (Phyllobates terribilis) used by Embera Choco Indians to poison their darts for hunting, Colombia

Flip Nicklin / Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) researchers Lea Gerber and Dr James Darling shoot biopsy darts at whales with dart bouncing off whale unnoticed, carrying a sample of fat and skin in the tip, A...

Mark Moffett / Dr Mark Moffet at right getting a close look at Golden Poison Dart Frog (Phyllobates terribilis) captured by Embera Choco Indians to make poison-tipped darts, Colombia