Aboriginal Trackers And Their Magical Senses

Newspaper article recognizing the

 skill of aboriginal trackers (1952)

Australian aborigines are the local people of the austraulian outback. They are experts in everything related to the habitat they live in. They have develped unique techniques in order to hunt, look for water, create medicine and make shelter.  

British settlers realized this poeple had an incredible sense of orientation and perception, and, in 1834, ocurred the first recorded use of aboriginal trackers, when settlers turned to two of these trackers and had them search for a missing 5-year-old in rough terrain and only took them 10 hours to find him. It may not seem like much, but, to the White man, the hability to narrow down options by merely looking at the ground and surroundings, be sure of the way you are going when you have an inmense plain before you and succed at the end with preccision, could be easily mistaken for magical powers. After this, trackers helped in  many explorations and searches through the continent by leading White australians into unexplored lands and providing them with food when all left was terrain.

Moodoo, tracker from
'Rabbit-Proof Fence'

This “inhuman” capabilities are the result of skills used for hunting and survival pased down generation to generation. They teach children to read the markings on the enviroment as soon as they are capable of recognizing them and this abilities are used and honed trough all their lives. It does look like magic when someone can tell you the species, gender, size, speed and direction of an animal just by looking at a footprint.

Aboriginal trackers have been an important part of the police forces for a long time since they are of great help when dealing with car accidents, missing persons and crimes, all thanks to their excelent sense of  observation and conclusion making.

Having these abilities could be considered a sixth sense. Wouldn’t it be useful and great if everyone could be as perceptive as them? Or at least have people like them in our own police forces. That way we could sleep comfortably at night knowing that Super Trackers are watching over us <3...

...or at least will come to our rescue in case of being abducted.