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tarotnathers13th
· 8 years ago
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Pursuit Predation. A uniquely human trait where hunting is less about outright killing the prey in question, and more of pushing them to their limits where they will collapse. Humans are unique in the fact that they can run for days on end without collapsing and dying. If you were to put humans and animals in a foot race, the Human would outdistance them over and over again, simply because we don't tire as quickly or as much as other animals.
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garlog
· 8 years ago
Pursuit predation isn't entirely unique to humans, lions and cheetahs and some species of wolves do it too. Also some bird species, I think.
deleted
· 8 years ago
Lions and cheetahs do the opposite of that, they just sprint, and if they don't catch their prey after a few minutes or something they give up.
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garlog
· 8 years ago
Lions definitely don't do that, they'll pursue their prey across some pretty long distances depending on what they're chasing. Cheetahs are more debatable, but they definitely do more than sprint, again depending on what they're chasing.
deleted
· 8 years ago
Yes but what I mean is that it's definitely not to the extent of what wolves and humans do
garlog
· 8 years ago
Sure, but it's still pursuit predation.
deleted
· 8 years ago
Then isn't every predator that chases its prey a pursuit predator?
tarotnathers13th
· 8 years ago
Pursuit predation in the sense that the goal isn't to kill it during the chase. it's make them die of exhaustion. Wolves and liions kill whilst chasing, this is waiting for it to practically die
garlog
· 8 years ago
It's not making them die of exhaustion, it's just chasing them until they get tired, which wolves and lions are known to do.
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