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Also: Men plus Dogs can catch most animals. Some men
hunt pigs in Europe with spears on foot with dogs.
Cats have relatively small lungs.
One day with snow just right I chased a deer out of three
hiding places; It would stop running and hide shortly after
it got out of my sight.
Lorenzo
> > >They ran to hunt down animals sometimes....
> >
> > Try running anything down greater than the size
of a rat and you will soon
> > realize that man is a dismal runner for the purpose of
running down game.
>
> In _Children of the Ice Age_, anthropologist Steven
Stanley has a
> more optimistic view of this. He argues that the human
ability
> to run down game is highly developed. This ability does
is not
> the same as being able to *outrun* game in a short sprint,
as
> many predators do. We are indeed dismal at that. But for
> purposes of simply forcing the prey to keep moving until
> exhausted, when we can then kill it, we are well adapted.
That
> is, we can run longer, continuously, than most of the
animals
> that we eat.
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