A groundbreaking study by researchers from Tel Aviv University tracks the development of early humans’ hunting practices over the last 1.5 million years – as reflected in the animals they hunted and consumed. The researchers claim that at any given time early humans preferred to hunt the largest animals available in their surroundings, which provided the greatest quantities of food in return for a unit of effort.
Yeah. Same reason a couple of lions would much rather bring down a zebra or eland than a couple of dik dik(or a human).
Throw in, think of the cave lion and the Short Face Bear here in North America: kill them, you're eliminating both a competitor and a predator that would happily eat you, and getting their skin to stay warm with.
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Just the economics of blood and survival. That skinny bunny ain't nothing; that deer will feed us all for maybe a week. That deer hide will make a nice wind resistant jacket, that bunny will barely make a new seat cover for my bicycle.
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Large Economy Size
Isn't a new idea?
Whoda guessed?
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