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Re:A surprising food may have been a staple of the real Pale... by kirrent on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @07:55PM (#35365719)
You seem very confident that a human can't catch a dog on a hot day. I hate to be that person, but do you have a source for that?

I've gone running with plenty of different dogs in temperatures of above 30 degrees over the years. Smaller or stockier dogs (like a staffy) fade very fast. Within a couple of kms. Working breeds (retrievers/poodles/kelpies/collies) will leave you in their dust but this is why the endurance hunting hypothesis relies on efficient tracking while running. If they're running on the lead, especially when it's a bit hotter, they seem to lose it after about 10kms. On a cooler day these same dogs would leave me dead.

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Re:A surprising food may have been a staple of the real Pale... by bernawil on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @09:52PM (#35366745)
of course I'm not talking about pugs. I mean dogs, average dogs, as a model for wild animals our hunter gatherer ancestors might have hunted long time ago.

Again I'm not saying it's "literally" impossible. Just not feasible. Actually, chasing an animal worth hunting to exhaustion sounds more like a feat of strength someone would do as a rite of passage. Something you could do once in a lifetime, rather than a reliable source of food.

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