Re: Proven facts (Re: Savanna hunters run down kudus (Re: AAT all washed up(WARNING: graphic photo)

On Jul 22, 3:27 pm, Marc Verhaegen <m_verhae...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

:-D You even believe that kudu running is a proven fact...

Proven fact to everyone who can read English:

http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/master.html?http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/1206/1206_samplings.html
December 2006-January 2007

"Running Man Couch potatoes may disagree, but people are fairly well
built to run in the heat. We sweat more per unit of body surface area
than any other animal, and our upright posture exposes less body
surface to the sun than would walking on all fours, and more surface
to the cooling wind. On the hunt, those traits give people a distinct
advantage over most quarry. In fact, Australian Aborigines and various
Native American and African groups have traditionally practiced
"persistence hunting," chasing antelopes or other game in the midday
heat, often for hours, until the animals overheat and collapse.
During the past twenty years, Louis Liebenberg, an animal tracker and
the owner of CyberTracker Software in Cape Town, South Africa, has
observed the only persistence hunters still left, the !Xo and /Gwi
bushmen of the central Kalahari in Botswana. He reports a success rate
as high as 80 percent-and a meat yield that beats hunting with bow and
arrow, club, or spear. Only hunting with dogs proved superior.
Conditions have to be just right: the days must be long and hot, and
the terrain must slow down the quarry. Furthermore, the hunters must
be terrifically fit-the runs Liebenberg observed lasted as long as six-
and-a-half hours and covered as many as twenty-two miles. And the
hunters' tracking skills must be exquisite; finding and following the
quarry every time it bolts out of sight or mingles with a herd is no
easy task-teamwork helps. But done right, Liebenberg says, persistence
hunting is so effective that it may have helped select for the
excellent thermoregulatory system, bipedal posture, and long strides
that we all possess. Perhaps sadly, the practice is dying out, though
the physical skill endures in those who shun couches and run for
fun." (Current Anthropology)
--Stéphan Reebs

That the sun
turns around the earth was once a proven fact.

Says the man who thinks the sun turns around semi-aquatic mountain
beavers (TREE 2002).

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