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| Could a human hunt an animal by running it down? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 11 2015, 10:30 PM (824 Views) | |
| snap | Mar 11 2015, 10:30 PM Post #1 |
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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 | Mar 11 2015, 10:31 PM Post #2 |
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Yes, they do it in Africa with deer. |
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| FelinePowah | Mar 11 2015, 10:57 PM Post #3 |
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Antelope......and that's only in hot conditions....i doubt a human could do that in a temperate environment. |
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| snap | Mar 11 2015, 11:14 PM Post #4 |
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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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| Spartan | Mar 11 2015, 11:58 PM Post #5 |
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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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| Grimace | Mar 12 2015, 12:08 AM Post #6 |
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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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