stolen meat

One African predator is smarter than lions and stronger than all predators, yet for some reason they do not prevent him from hunting, simply by growing aphids for food for him

A well-known and prolonged debate between paleontologists and between them and anthropologists and others deals with the question of what was the source of the animal protein of the ancient human species, where and how they obtained meat to enrich their diet.

In the past, much was said about the "brave hunter" who was skilled enough to hunt his own food, as more finds were discovered, the picture became less "heroic", as it became clear that most of the meat came from theft or robbery from predatory animals.

Our ancestors followed (from a safe distance) after predators and when the predator succeeded in hunting, if it was a small predator they would simply chase it away and rob its prey, while in the case of a large predator, they would wait for an opportunity and steal the meat.

There, too, the method is called "parasitic theft" (kleptoparasitism).

The parasitic theft is known and recognized among predators: lions chase hyenas, tigers, cheetahs and others and "buy" their prey, hyenas chase cheetahs and so on, the big and strong chases away and "inherits" the weak. Now there is conclusive proof of the method of robbery by... people. It turns out that in West African countries (and maybe in other areas as well) meat robbery by people is taking an "respectable" place as a form of livelihood.

The method was published by two lion researchers who work in Cameroon. The researchers, Mariolan Shaw and Amit Maun Leeden from the Netherlands, working in the Buenos Aires Reserve, followed a marked lion and watched him and the female eat a bobel (antelope) that you hunted.

When they got closer, they drove the lions away into the bushes, so the researchers left the place. When they returned after several hours, they met locals who ran away, when they approached the place of the prey, the researchers found a skeleton whose meat had been stripped (knife marks) as well as leaves that were used to wrap the meat. The researchers' conclusion: the lions were smuggled by the locals and their hunter was robbed. The researchers say that although the incident is not related to the topic of their research, they decided to publish it. To warn of the danger that threatens the lion population in the reserve.

Another researcher in another reserve in Cameroon tells of a similar incident in which he saw how locals drive a lion away from the fresh prey (horse antelope) and rob the meat.

Following scattered observations published by various researchers throughout Africa as well as conversations with the Bororo - (shepherd tribe), it turns out that robbing lion meat is a common and accepted method of obtaining meat, as soon as lions are found on prey they attack them with sticks and shouts, the lions with firearms) run away and the meat is stolen.

The researchers point out that the robbery/stealing of meat from madmen is an easy source of obtaining animal proteins, when referring only to Cameroon, only one reserve where the number of lions decreased from 60 to 15 in a few years and when adding to the meat robbery the lions that are killed by shepherds because of their Predators of sheep and cattle, receive a sharp decrease in the number of lions, a decrease that brings the lions in West Africa to the brink of extinction. This kidney can be prevented by... Raising chickens....

Is there anyone else who considers himself a descendant of a "brave hunter"?

Asaf