>>the KUng people of Kalahari desert eat once a day and certainly not in the >>morning, because they have to earn their meal first.. >>i learned too , that they sleep their head , 30 cm off the ground, >>supported in one hand , elbow burried in the sand to keep the balance >>Jean-claude > >Any explanation in your movie on why (and how?? do they sleep that way? > Nancy Ingrid answering (I saw the movie with Jean-Claude): The movie was "Animals are Beautiful People" 1974, by Mimosa Films on Warner Home Video, primarily about unusual habits of certain animals, filmed in Africa over four years. There was a short wonderful section of footage on the !Kung. The scenes of them storytelling and mimicing the wild animals was fabulous. There were several shots of people sleeping in this unusual position: sort of on their sides, with elbow rammed into the sand (as though leaning on elbow), their heads resting on their shoulders. It was a position we might assume lying beside someone and propped up on our elbow to look at or talk to them. Except that their heads were hanging slightly and they were fast asleep!! The footage showed several people including an older child and a mother who was sleeping like this with her arm on the ground and her baby sleeping with it's head on her forearm (I think). It was quite amazing! The reason given in the film was vague, something like "because of the creepers and crawlers". ingrid