Personally, I found the “human mammal, human hunter”
video that was provided in the “performance” lecture slide to be immensely
fascinating. The video showed the San people of the Kalahari Desert as they
hunt. The San tribe is the last tribe on earth to use the ancient technique of
running down their prey. The video shows the hunters as they hunt their prey in
the scorching heat of the desert. As the hunt precedes the members of the tribe
separate their prey from the pack and the fastest member of the tribe continues
to hunt their prey as the others go another direction. This hunt is a test of
endurance and in the end the member of the San tribe is able to run down the
prey and capture it as it collapses from exhaustion. I thought this video was very
fascinating because the San people choose to use their physical endurance and a
simple weapon to hunt their prey and succeed.
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