Also our accuracy and reach when throwing stuff.
Especially when combined with our ability to make stuff sharp by banging it against other stuff and breaking it just the right way.
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LilB0kChoy@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
Pursuit predation has to be one of the most metal characteristics about humans.
Also our accuracy and reach when throwing stuff.
Especially when combined with our ability to make stuff sharp by banging it against other stuff and breaking it just the right way.
And THEN add to that that once you got hit with the spear and are running slower, a wolf just appears and starts hunting you too.
Imagine being hunted by 2 different apex predators working together
Then later in history…
An hawk flies down and attacks you, joining the wolves and the humans. They’ve got the fucks birds in on it now! God is dead.
I went on a hike and a coyote started hunting me on the last mile back to the car. I carry at least a large stick when I hike now.
Shit that’s scary. I’m glad to be living in Central Europe. Scariest thing here is the Rabbit of Caerbannog (a.k.a. the Legendary Black Beast of Arrrghhh)
Coyotes don’t hunt humans, though it may have been receiving food from other hikers which could cause that behavior.
Atlanta!!! Here’s a random video i haven’t watched about it. The Atlanta doubles your spear throwing range youtu.be/YT_s1CEAhkA
Do you mean atlatl or do people in American Georgia just throw real good?
Not according to Atlanta’s 39-50 record this season. They ain’t even going to make the wildcard round. Even my pathetic Minnesota Twins are 10 games better than that. And they are still under .500.
Atlanta!!!
Atlatl. Or simply spear-thrower.
It’s a bit like a fing-longer, but for your whole arm, and therefore more useful.
Same principle as the sling: they make your arm longer so the “hand” moves faster when you swing it, allowing you to throw stuff at higher and more lethal speeds, and farther.
We’re still quite lethal even without these tools though, just look at baseball pitchers.
Atlanta. Dyac 🤦♂️
What I never got about this theory is, fine, you run after the Ptadgedrwgydon for 87kms, when it gives up due to exhaustion and you kill it with a stone. What now? You’re 87kms away with a carcass that weighs 500kg, how do you get back the food to the tribe?
This is how we learned to be nomads. Kill big thing, bring camp to big thing, hang out until big thing is all eaten.
The tribe can walk.
This is how Komodo Dragons hunt, too.
Group hunting for mega-fauna. Partial field-processing of remains, beyond a dressing.
idk, moose hunters might still. Is there a moose hunter at the forum today…?
Moose hunters just shoot them these days. The only time anyone is running any more is when they are headed to a charger for their phone because the charge is down to 10%
We were talking about the after killing part, specifically.
Field dressing, meat logistics, leather processing and whether you’re saving the brains for that or not.
Thanks for your enthusiam. Feel free to reply with information more directly related to getting meat and craft materials back to camp.
That’s probably part of the reason why the evidence of persistence hunting being used as an actual hunting technique, compared to ambush hunting or trapping is incredibly slim. And that’s the reason why there’s really no scientific consensus that persistence hunting was a major thing at all.
I figured they chased them in a big circle. Or did laps. Or anything other than a completely straight line.
I can imagine… “You, c*nt! Would you mind turning left a bit? Thanks!”
Can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic but yeah. Head them off in the direction you want them to go, just like sheepdogs do.
That would be a terrifying way to die.
Wasn’t that the premise of the Slenderman video game?
get with the times, gramps, its all about the backrooms now
saimen@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
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LilB0kChoy@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
You’re missing a .
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
\ is the escape character in markdown. Gotta do a double \ and then another \ for the underscore
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LilB0kChoy@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
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I’m assuming this menu is specific to the Voyager app rather than to Lemmy itself:
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saimen@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Now I got it, thank you
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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LilB0kChoy@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
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samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
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