Eat more rabbits--don't become extinct

[bcp]

Rabbits are small, fast, and devilishly hard to catch. And that could have had dire consequences for Neanderthals.

A new study suggests that an inability to shift from hunting large mammals to wild rabbits and other small game may have contributed to the downfall of European Neanderthals during the Middle Paleolithic period, about 30,000 years ago.
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"We show in our study that [modern humans] used rabbits extensively, but Neanderthals didn't."



Failure to Hunt Rabbits Part of Neanderthals' Demise?

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Rabbits are small, fast, and devilishly hard to catch. And that could have had dire consequences for Neanderthals.

A new study suggests that an inability to shift from hunting large mammals to wild rabbits and other small game may have contributed to the downfall of European Neanderthals during the Middle Paleolithic period, about 30,000 years ago.
...

"We show in our study that [modern humans] used rabbits extensively, but Neanderthals didn't."



Failure to Hunt Rabbits Part of Neanderthals' Demise?

Interesting read. Thanks for posting. Neanderthal had evolved in a manner that allowed him to exist in a very cold, inhospitable climate and physically capable of killing very large game. He was extremely robust and very, very strong. His large body size was not only more efficient in cold climate, but his tremedous strength enabled him to handle the large game. Phyical Anthropologists, studying the remains of Neanderthals, have noted a multitude of injuries suffered by them that strongly resemble...get this...injuries suffered by modern day rodeo performers...which to me indicates not that they competed in bull riding, but that they got very physical with their meals. The bottom line is that they were physically adapted to the cold climate and the hunting of large game. The question is, were they too specialized to change their hunting habits?
Scientists are beginning to give them more credit for intelligence and in all probability they had a fully functional language. Geneticists are now saying that modern humans have a certain percentage of genes that were evolved in the Neanderthal...a clue that they interbred with Cro Magnon and in all probability were simply bred out of existence. When different cultures meet, they may or may not fight, but they will always interbreed...and more importantly, there will be a cultural exchange...so if their survival depended on hunting rabbits, it's likely they could have learned from the Cro Magnon.

 

[cqaigy2]

Things i learn on a tractor forum.:thumbsup:

 

[Ed of all trades]

What are you trying to say about tractor owners?

 

[2LaneCruzer]

What are you trying to say about tractor owners?

Neanderthals didn't have tractors, although they could have used them. Butchering a mammoth is hard work.

 

[dmccarty]

Rabbits are small, fast, and devilishly hard to catch. And that could have had dire consequences for Neanderthals.

A new study suggests that an inability to shift from hunting large mammals to wild rabbits and other small game may have contributed to the downfall of European Neanderthals during the Middle Paleolithic period, about 30,000 years ago.
...

"We show in our study that [modern humans] used rabbits extensively, but Neanderthals didn't."



Failure to Hunt Rabbits Part of Neanderthals' Demise?

Well, DUH! :duh: :laughing::laughing::laughing: It took a study to figure this out? REALLY?

Do these people watch Bugs Bunny? :confused3: I still watch Bugs and everyone SHOULD know that Elmer was a Neanderthal, a short Neanderthal but a Neanderthal never the less, and he never is able to get Bugs! Even with Elmer was singing "Kill the Rabbit! Kill the Rabbit!" Bugs always gets away! The episode I watched the other day had Bugs, Daffy and Elmer going hunting. Daffy gets shot. Elmer gets shot. Bugs DOES NOT get shot! Yet another failure of out Education System. :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Later,
Dan

 

[jerrybob]

I wonder why the Neanderthals didn't eat the colored eggs the rabbits produce at Easter? :confused3:

 

[DieselnHooters]

Neanderthals are far from extinct, nowadays they roam supermarkets, hunting in the frozen food aisle.

 

[jerrybob]

Neanderthals are far from extinct, nowadays they roam supermarkets, hunting in the frozen food aisle.

Saw one at Walmart just yesterday......he was biting into a frozen burrito!:laughing:

 

[marimus]

Might not be such a good idea...


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