Pursuit predation has to be one of the most metal characteristics about humans.
All downhill from there
Submitted 3 weeks ago by marighost@piefed.social to science_memes@mander.xyz
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LilB0kChoy@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
saimen@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
LilB0kChoy@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
You’re missing a .
There have been many extinction events in Earth’s history. There have been five big mass extinction events and several smaller ones.
There have now been many studies focused on the question of whether humans were a key driver of the QME. Many suggest that the answer is yes. Climatic changes might have driven an initial decline in large mammal populations — small population crashes — but human pressures are likely to have thwarted their recovery. Large mammals survived previous periods of climatic change, but the arrival of humans put pressure on already-depleted populations.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 2 weeks ago
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.
Nikls94@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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
ragingHungryPanda@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Atlanta!!! Here’s a random video i haven’t watched about it. The Atlanta doubles your spear throwing range youtu.be/YT_s1CEAhkA
BlushedPotatoPlayers@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
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?
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is how we learned to be nomads. Kill big thing, bring camp to big thing, hang out until big thing is all eaten.
SomeKindaName@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The tribe can walk.
paperazzi@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is how Komodo Dragons hunt, too.
nanoswarm9k@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago
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…?
squaresinger@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
skisnow@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I figured they chased them in a big circle. Or did laps. Or anything other than a completely straight line.
Geodad@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That would be a terrifying way to die.
Wasn’t that the premise of the Slenderman video game?
burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
get with the times, gramps, its all about the backrooms now
Lucky_777@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Humans’ ability to sweat is something outstanding.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
That what I keep saying, but people still seem thoroughly unimpressed by my ability to sweat profusely the moment I get a little hot!
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Donkter@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Sweating is such a powerful ability for humans when compared to the animal kingdom. I mean, not only does my sweat keep me cool, I can clear out an entire room with it if it’s a little too hot!
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
It’s just that we’re so powerful, we need the extra cooling!
khannie@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The other advantage we have while running is that we’re not constantly slamming our intestines into our other vital organs and lungs because we’re upright.
Humans can out-distance a horse. A fucking HORSE. Incredible animal the oul’ human.
FelixCress@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Humans can out-distance a horse
Speak for yourself, I cannot out distance a hamster lately.
IncogCyberspaceUser@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Is that really a limiting factor for animals not upright? They have to stop going because their intestines slam into other vital organs, and they need a break, lest they get damaged?
negativenull@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
curiousaur@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
I was playing tag with my kid yesterday. He’s 3, almost 4. He’s very fast for his age, but not as fast as me. He asked to play tag because he just learned it in school. I could dodge to the side as he was getting close and change direction. I could fake him out. I could sprint to the other side of our 1 acre meadow to creat space. But he just kept coming. Smiling and laughing the whole time. I’m starting to get winded. Hands on my knees for a second after a sprint, but only for a second as he’s closed the gap already. His undeterred motivation and pace was scary. He was going to get me eventually, and he seemed to know it.
I now know how the victims of Chucky must have felt.
AeonFelis@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Persistence predation is the only way I can manage to take my cats to the vet.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Did you try just picking them up and having a towel or blanket underneath in case they want to dig their claws into something, and hand in their shoulders in case they try to escape? That’s what Ive done for years and it is so much less stressful on everyone involved.
AeonFelis@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The problem is getting a hold of them in the first place. They just bolt from one hiding place to another, and I say “hiding place” but they’re not as much “hidden” as “hard to reach when you are a human-sized human”. The only reason I eventually manage to catch them is that ambush predators gets tired quicker than persistence predators.
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
We are the snail
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Fun fact: the guy who first proposed this “running man” hypothesis about persistence hunting in the late 1960s (Grover Krantz) was better known as a staunch advocate for the existence of Bigfoot. Personally, I can’t believe that anybody could still believe in Bigfoot - it’s so obviously just a Yeti in a gorilla suit.
For some weird reason, Krantz’s skeleton and that of his favorite dog are on display at the Smithsonian.
jnod4@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
The father of modern day physics changed course and started studying alchemy, chronology, biblical interpretation, losing himself to mysticism. He’d probably research big foot if he was alive as well. That doesn’t mean I’m going to dismiss his real magnum opus
squaresinger@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Contrary to modern-day physics, the “persistence hunting” thing is very much not a scientific consensus. It’s more of a fringe idea supported by hardly any science that somehow made it into popular science.
There’s about as much credible evidence to that theory as there is to the theory that eating chocolate helps with loosing weight.
TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
who’s that? Leibnitz? not Newton?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
isnt this a diprotodon, which is the largest marsupial in australia, in the vombatiforms.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
For some reason I read that as vomitiform (I bet I know how they fought)
Welt@lazysoci.al 2 weeks ago
It just means wombat-shaped, the w was changed to v in a half-arsed effort to Latinise it (despite -form coming from Greek anyway).
Zink@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
For some reason I read that as vimitiforum.
That place either has some heavy science discussion or some heavy kink discussion. Or maybe por que no los dos?
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
That thing does look pretty tasty.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
its a diprodont, which related to a womat, it is the largest marsupial to ever live, like 5000lbs.
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
5k lbs? Probably not all that tasty but it’s going to feed all of us for a major feast weekend!
meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Inside you there are two snails…
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Only thing to do now is turn around and chomp 'em!
WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Imagine being hunted and killed by a team of power walkers.
Zwiebel@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
The predators: 1000095488
WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
You know, this is actually the type of fear that the zombie horror genre really reverses back on us. Classic zombies are not fast. They’re not smart. They can’t run, climb, or plan elaborate traps. They no sharp claws or terrifyingly large teeth. You can outrun them at a brisk walk.
But what makes them so dangerous is that they’re relentless. If they get your scent, they’ll follow you and keep following you. Blow their legs off and they’ll crawl towards you. Remove all their limbs and they’ll slither like a snake towards you. Only destroying their brain can stop them.
If you’re on foot, it is virtually impossible to escape them, as they’ll just keep on coming. And while you need to sleep, they don’t. They can just keep right on shuffling towards you 24/7. If on foot being chased by a zombie, your best bet is probably to find a river you can swim across that will sweep them away. Oh, and of course, they are rarely alone.
Zombies are predators that turn our species’s natural hunting strategy back upon us.
khannie@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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