Flying Squid@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.world · 3 months agoInstead of Thrown, Spears Were Planted in the Ground to Kill a Charging Mammothwww.discovermagazine.comexternal-linkmessage-square65fedilinkarrow-up1253arrow-down14
arrow-up1249arrow-down1external-linkInstead of Thrown, Spears Were Planted in the Ground to Kill a Charging Mammothwww.discovermagazine.comFlying Squid@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.world · 3 months agomessage-square65fedilink
minus-squareTiptopit@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up7·3 months 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-up3·3 months 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-up2·3 months 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.
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.