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arrow-up1264arrow-down1external-linkInstead of Thrown, Spears Were Planted in the Ground to Kill a Charging Mammothwww.discovermagazine.comFlying Squid@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.world · 20 days agomessage-square67fedilink
minus-squareRavindraNemandi@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkarrow-up4·20 days agoIsnt this how you would hunt boar too?
minus-squareTiptopit@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up8·20 days agoThis is probably how you hunt nearly everything which is faster than you as long as you don’t have the means to kill it with one shot.
minus-squareRavindraNemandi@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkarrow-up3·20 days agoYou might be right, but i think it also has to do with the charging behavior of those animals. The plant a spear strat seems less effective if your prey is better able to change directions.
minus-squareTiptopit@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·20 days agoYes, but for prey which changes directions the tactics are not so different. You work as a group, drive them to a cliff and this is their end.
Isnt this how you would hunt boar too?
This is probably how you hunt nearly everything which is faster than you as long as you don’t have the means to kill it with one shot.
You might be right, but i think it also has to do with the charging behavior of those animals. The plant a spear strat seems less effective if your prey is better able to change directions.
Yes, but for prey which changes directions the tactics are not so different. You work as a group, drive them to a cliff and this is their end.