On Oct 21, 10:33 pm, JTEM <jte...@gmail.com> wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/32ryet
"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."

http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/master.html?http://www.naturalhistor...
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.