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The Intense 8 Hour Hunt | Attenborough Life of Mammals | BBC Earth
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A clip from Attenborough's Life of Mammals following a San tribesman in the Kalahari on an eight-hour persistence hunt, running down a kudu through harsh heat. It shows tracking, endurance running and the hunter's reaction after the kill.
HN returns to it as the canonical footage of persistence hunting in threads about human endurance running and evolution.
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