persistence hunting en · NOUN
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(uncountable) A type of hunting where the predator uses a combination of running and tracking to pursue the prey to exhaustion.
Lieberman believes they ran their prey to death, often called “persistence hunting.”
2009 March 18, Maywa Montenegro, “The Running Man, Revisited”, in Seed, archived from the original on 23 Mar 2009:Supplied with water, any good marathoner probably has the endurance to chase down a zebra, antelope, or steenbok. However, there's more to persistence hunting than endurance, a lot more.
2016, Joseph Henrich, chapter 5, in The Secret of Our Success […] , Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN:
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de Hetzjagd (Translations) · nl renjacht (Translations)