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Instead of Thrown, Spears Were Planted in the Ground to Kill a Charging Mammoth(www.discovermagazine.com)

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Tiptopit@feddit.org
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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.

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RavindraNemandi@ttrpg.network
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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.

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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.

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