Sean Bellamy Mcnulty

“His report described a typical beka initiation, complete with slaughtered sheep and chickens, the neck of a tortoise (because it resembles a penis), and “virgin lasses” in attendance through a long prelude that culminates at four in the morning.”
― David Quammen, Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

“Only 10 to 20 percent of untrained people can stay calm and think in the midst of a survival emergency.”
― Laurence Gonzales, Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why

“SYROTUCK ANALYZED 229 search and rescue cases (11 percent of them fatal) and concluded that almost three quarters of those who died perished within the first forty-eight hours of becoming lost.”
― Laurence Gonzales, Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why

“So much for where as well as when. AIDS began with a spillover from one chimp to one human, in southeastern Cameroon, no later than 1908 (give or take a margin of error), and grew slowly but inexorably from there.”
― David Quammen, Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic