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John
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Trackers need a huge amount of information about the local wildlife, and ecology. A deep mental image of how animals spend their time is necessary, and especially lots of deep information about feet and running and daily habits.
This big chapter attempted to give all that information for the animals in the tribes of the Kalahari, but you can see how learning all this well enough to be able to USE could take decades.
— May 25, 2024 01:43PM
This big chapter attempted to give all that information for the animals in the tribes of the Kalahari, but you can see how learning all this well enough to be able to USE could take decades.
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John
is on page 120 of 192
Now to the meat of it; tracking knowledge.
Though... I'm not too impressed with tracking elephants.
— May 25, 2024 10:22AM
Though... I'm not too impressed with tracking elephants.
John
is on page 110 of 192
There are actually some solid principles to tracking that can be easily understood, though they would take years to master.
— May 25, 2024 08:50AM
John
is on page 100 of 192
The hunter-gatherer tribes also have mystical, religion, and non-scientific beliefs. Of course.
An interesting fasit of their religions is they never fear anything religious in nature. They are only afraid when there is good cause: like lions.
— May 25, 2024 08:11AM
An interesting fasit of their religions is they never fear anything religious in nature. They are only afraid when there is good cause: like lions.
John
is on page 92 of 192
I love this book. I think it's too technical to reach the broader audience it deserves.
— May 24, 2024 01:02PM
John
is on page 91 of 192
A fun exploration of the thought processes of trackers compared to modern science. They compare amazingly well. Trackers are able to collect data and formulate hypotheses that match the data. The hypotheses grow and change as new data is collected on a hunt. Trackers debate the merits of the data and ways to interpret it.
— May 24, 2024 01:02PM
John
is on page 78 of 192
Spoor of an animal lying in the shade can give a good estimate of the age of the spoor. Knowing how old tracks are is hard, but the most important bit is to know when they are fresh, do you can become stealthy before finding the animal.
— May 23, 2024 07:37PM
John
is on page 71 of 192
Smarter people are better at hunting, and it takes years to learn the information and skills necessary. Hunters judge the quality of their information sources, and are skeptical when a scientist would be.
— May 23, 2024 07:14PM
John
is on page 69 of 192
Okay, I have learned a lot about what and how the people of the Kalahari hunt, but not about tracking yet. Still, interesting.
— May 23, 2024 05:01PM
John
is on page 51 of 192
Okay, here we go. Time to start reading about the stone age hunting tribes of the Kalahari. I have been waiting for this for like a decade.
— May 22, 2024 06:51PM
John
is on page 46 of 192
Most people trace the foundations of modern scientific reasoning and critical thinking to things like early Greek philosophers. But modern hunting tribes use complicated data collection, and complicated hypothetico-deductive reasoning. They display critical thinking, form hypotheses, and test them.
A thesis of this book is that it is likely early humans used these same complicated "scientific" approaches in hunting
— May 22, 2024 06:43PM
A thesis of this book is that it is likely early humans used these same complicated "scientific" approaches in hunting
