Ultimately, du Chaillu's Explorations represents a limit experience of carnivoracity, the point at which the dominatory logic of meat-eating starts to falter.
As Fudge explains, 'Eating meat is a declaration of human dominion [...] But eating meat is also an action that can, possibly, undo that dominion [...] [H]ow do you know you are not eating a human as you tuck into a steak?' (26) Du Chaillu's gastronomic misadventures illustrate the fractures in the discourse of carnivoracity when it is pushed to its limits.