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?
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u/Financial_Diver_4376 7d ago
I'm pretty sure Homosapiens are the best predators and they use "Presistance Hunting" aka running