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Probably not too well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting There are documentaries of wolves a
by elfexec 7y ago
Probably not too well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting
There are documentaries of wolves and wild dogs hunting large prey by chasing them until the large prey is so exhausted and overheated that it collapses.
- tomerico 7y agoOf note - the most important reason why a human would win the horse (and other animals), is because a human would carry water with them.
- gadders 7y agoThere doesn't seem to be as much consensus on the case for persistence hunting as there once was. https://undark.org/2019/10/03/persistent-myth-persistence-hunting/ https://undark.org/2019/10/03/persistent-myth-persistence-hu...
- huffmsa 7y agoThe only people who persistence hunt still are the people who didn't find a better approach. Be it that they don't need a better approach (which is fine. Means they're optimized) or that they simply spend.so much time hunting that they don't have the excess time and resources to experiment with new approaches
- gadders 7y agoI also think it depends on the environment. I can imagine ancient humans persistence hunting across the plains of Africa. I have a harder time picturing it in rain forests or the forests that used to cover most of Europe.
- mrkstu 7y agoAnd once you learn to drive big game into pits, most of the other options seem less efficient.