How did primitive humans, with a top speed of 28 mph, hunt large mammals like deer, bears, wolves, etc, that can reach speeds of near 35 – 40 mph?
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Pursuit Predation.
Humans are interesting. We cannot sprint for long durations but we can job or walk quickly nearly forever compared to the rest of the animal kingdom. So, we would just hunt things until they were completely exhausted and then easily kill them in that state. Think of humans as the terminators of the animal kingdoms. Most animals can only sprint for a little while and its incredibly exhausting. They stop to rest, there we are again. So they go sprinting off again. Their lungs aching body is screaming. They stop. So tired. Uh oh here we are again. Rinse and repeat and boom we just killed a cheetah or something.
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