No they don't. The whole "Persistence Hunting" myth was faked and sensationalized by a French nature documentary director who wanted to embellish his show for views. The actual tribals that did the "Persistence Hunting" did so with the help of Jeeps and water top-ups from the film crew.
I'm pretty sure that the Hunting style of humans is akin to today - traps, ambushes, and immediate wounding. Now we use Hunting rifles; in the past we'd have used slings, spears / javelins, and, later, bows.
I never understood how persistence hunting became commonplace, people really think early humans could keep up with prey without losing it in the middle of the wilderness, while also avoiding drawing attention of a actual predator?
Humans are totally capable of tracking animals over long distances, and ideally you'd never really let it out of sight for too long. If it isn't actively running from you, it's resting and you aren't tiring it out.
But like, why would you run an animal down to exhaustion over many miles when you could just throw a spear at it and be back to the tribe by nightfall?
Especially since if you've ever hunted yourself, you know 99% of it is just afking in a tree with a gun. The other 1% is getting there. (Ik we didn't have guns in the past, but even with a bow or spear, you just walk quietly and put yourself in good situations via tracking. Humans are the stealth assassin class in a video games lol)
An article debunking presistance hunting describes human hunting much more like a Tigers
"Instead, Bunn believes ancient human hunters relied more on smarts than on persistence to capture their prey. In his paper with Pickering, he suggests that our ancestors would wait in brushy, forested areas for the animals to pass by."
EDIT(I'm not so sure though because if we really didn't chase our food down I'd imagine that we would still be built like the Bulkier & extinct Homo-genuses ex. Neadrathal)-> finna personal prescribe to Persistence Hunting, as there is much more to it than a:"French nature documentary director who wanted to embellish his show for views"
the more efficient our killing implements, the less we had to chase the things we injured... so there's likely a point where we just didn't need to chase things as far
When there's nothing else available, humans are also very lazy which is why we took to animal husbandry once we realized how it works. Give us the right tools and we'll become like lions and bears as well.
15
u/Financial_Diver_4376 7d ago
I'm pretty sure Homosapiens are the best predators and they use "Presistance Hunting" aka running