Люди-страуси: загадкове плем'я клешноногих, які вважають себе посланцями з Марса (6 фото)

White people say that Africans are exactly the same for them, as turned on one blank. No personality, especially when it comes to the small tribes of Africa.





True, some guys are very fond of tattoos, others sharpen teeth. And the representatives of this tribe stand apart. They are often called ostrich people (sapadi in the local dialect) due to an unusual structure foot, on which there are only two fingers - the thumb and little finger, which have grown to incredible sizes. The other three are missing. Official name tribe - vadoma.

You are all lying!



Tribes of strange pincer-legs were mentioned by scientists of antiquity. But they belonged more to the category of myths and legends such as mermaids and centaurs. Until the 19th century, when the researcher Paul de Chailue did not mention in his notes of ostrich people after a trip to Africa. natives, despite on specific physiology, they drove like antelopes and climbed trees without worse than monkeys.

A century later, the Englishman Buster Philips published a note on unusual vadoma guys he discovered in Zimbabwe. They climbed over trees in search of fruits, deftly jumping from branch to branch. Seeing stranger, quickly disappeared, leaving only footprints on the ground, ostrich-like.

Others followed him, and information about the tribe became publish in scientific publications and press. The public blamed the luminary of science in falsification, because to fake a photo is a matter of technology. We need proof.

To dot the dots and gather evidence, in 1971 sent a special expedition to Africa. Sapadis met Europeans pathetic statement that they, they say, are not people in the full sense. A descendants of settlers from Mars.



By the way, the reputation of the ostrich-footed Vadoma among other tribes earned one. They perform wild rites that even worldly-wise neighbors are driven into a stupor. For example, during regular prayers and appeals to the spirits bury each other in the sand. Therefore, Sapadi considered sorcerers and sorcerers.

At the same time, deformed feet are not found in everyone. Africans, but about a quarter of the tribe. Research has shown that the other three fingers are. They are just in their infancy and very deformed. But this shortcoming is more than compensated by the large and little finger, growing to sizes of approximately 15 and 10 cm, respectively. The scientific name for the sore is ectrodactyly.

Do you have fingers? Give me two!



After analyzing the DNA of the representatives of the tribe, scientists all they were surprised. The fact is that the gene responsible for the deformed foot dominant. That is, if the father or mother has it, then the child guaranteed to be born with pincer legs.

But where did he come from Sapadi? The only more or less a reasonable explanation - it was once brought by a visiting woman, whose descendants, due to the closeness and small number of the tribe, became enter into closely related relationships with each other and consolidate the broken gene. Now sapadis do it on purpose to support chosenness.



The physical anomaly does not cause harm to health. That is extinction. tribe in connection with mutations is not threatened. Moreover, running on your own ostrich-footed claws contrive very quickly, and even use them to tree climbing.



Recently, small populations of citizens with non-standard limbs have already been recorded in Botswana and Zambia. So that you should not be too surprised if someone asks in the minibus pass the fare by holding out coins in an unusual two-toed foot. Integration, however, and you can’t run away from it anywhere, even on ostrich legs.