Kung often sleep in the open without fires and do not seem to be afraid of predators. Villages are readily established and moved easily, habitations being built in a few hours or days. They are occupied for only a few months before they are moved. Mongongo nuts are important part of the diet. Lee noted that each woman can gather 30 to 50 lbs of mongongo nuts in a couple of hours from an unpicked grove.
Plant food is abundant, and game scarce and unpredictable.
Kung had to work only about 20 hours a week in subsistence gathering to harvest a full diet. The digging stick is the only tool used in gathering. The women also have carrying bags for the harvest. Kung are superb trackers and make accurate deductions from the faintest of marks in the sand. From such marks they can understand things about the animals that have passed by, such as species, sex, age, how fast traveling, travelling alone or in a group, physical condition, whether or not it is feeding and the time of day the animal passed through.