Trapping wasn’t invented by humans. Spiderwebs exist. But no other species has the ability to run for as long as humans. We’re also one of the best species at throwing objects with precision
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Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 5 months agoIt’s weird that you specify “persistence” in relation to hunting. Why wouldn’t something that requires less calorie expenditure, like trapping be more notable?
rockerface@lemm.ee 5 months ago
pumpkinseedoil@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
What about wolves / dogs?
Daxtron2@startrek.website 5 months ago
Nope, dogs tire out faster than humans, assuming both are fit and average.
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 5 months ago
iirc dogs do out perform humans but only in cold climates. They’re also second place in general which is a big part of how the whole dog thing got started.
Drusas@kbin.run 5 months ago
Humans are better at running long distance than doing short sprints.
papalonian@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Weird that you randomly got downvote bombed for asking a question. Lol.
TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 5 months ago
You can’t trap a mammoth, and a mammoth feeds the tribe for weeks
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
It’s thought that the discovery could shed new light on how humans hunted mammoths, with archaeologists surmising that groups of 20 to 30 human hunters would have used torches and branches to separate individual mammoths from the herd, and steer them into the traps.
LemmySoloHer@lemmy.world 5 months ago
They’re probably referencing another greentext from the perspective of a fast sprinting Elk that can’t escape the long-distance persistence endurance of a bipedal human hunter:
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shneancy@lemmy.world 5 months ago
the fact you seem to imply that knowledge about primitive hunting strategies is a reference to a greentext gave me psychic damage
is this not semi-common knowledge? Common among nerds at the very least
LemmySoloHer@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It is common knowledge, I merely guessed they used that specific hunting strategy over other “food hacks” because this is literally a greentext community.
lessthanluigi@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Never thought I would see/hear this sentence. Of course it would come from 4chan.