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Could a human hunt an animal by running it down?
Topic Started: Mar 11 2015, 10:30 PM (824 Views)
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Humans are slow but we are one of the very few animals on earth who can literally run all day. Would be possible for a lone hunter armed only with a knife to hunt a medium sized mammal by approaching it in a wide open space and simply chasing it until until it keels over from exhaustion?
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Black Ice
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Yes, they do it in Africa with deer.
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Black Ice
Mar 11 2015, 10:31 PM
Yes, they do it in Africa with deer.
Antelope......and that's only in hot conditions....i doubt a human could do that in a temperate environment.
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Mar 11 2015, 10:57 PM
Black Ice
Mar 11 2015, 10:31 PM
Yes, they do it in Africa with deer.
Antelope......and that's only in hot conditions....i doubt a human could do that in a temperate environment.
Why not? They way the antelope darts about is useful when they have a fast animal at their heels but counter effective in a wide open space with a slow but persistent pursuer waiting for it to tire out.
Edited by snap, Mar 11 2015, 11:16 PM.
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Yes, that's actually how humans are "supposed" to hunt. We're pretty well adapted to this.
Edited by Spartan, Mar 11 2015, 11:58 PM.
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ideally, yes.
Most currently existing humans wouldn't have any kind of shot at doing that though.
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