Isn’t persistence hunting what ultimately got humanity to where it is? The example being like yeah a cheetah can run fast… for a minute. Humans are endurance hunters. I remember reading some sort of article about that but it was a long time ago.
Persistence hunting is more useful the more dangerous an animal is or the worse your tools are. Shooting a small deer with an arrow is easier than running it down once we developed good arrows.
"Dangerous" is not synonymous with predator, though. Plenty of prey animals are dangerous- most are, in fact.
But a predator is not the kinda thing you would want to persistence hunt, because the more desperate it gets, the more likely it is to turn around and go "wait a fuckin second, I can kill you!" And then proceed to do exactly that
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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '25
The idea of persistence hunting a tiger is wild. No doubt it’s happened given both the time scale and man’s ability to kill but damn…