This dog was used as a companion to
men hunting birds and other small game.
Not exact matches
Significantly more light has been shed on the matter by the recent work of one Simon Baron - Cohen, a professor at the University of Cambridge, who theorized that
men love
birding less for its resemblance to the macho practice of
hunting than for its resemblance to the unglamorous practice of accounting.
Since everyone else is speculating about our diet from the dim past, I'll offer my speculation too:
men were too slow and too weak to
hunt down animals,
birds or other game and so they mostly confined themselves to the colorful fruits that they could easily see with their color vision, and were attracted to, along with other plants which were easy to identify and harvest.
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Bird Massacres» Many experts believe the ban has distorted that tradition and led to reckless
hunting, like a controversial incident this past spring when a
man killed dozens of migratory storks in north Lebanon and posted pictures of himself with his dead prey on Facebook.