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…. Another Sloth Hunt?

Ice age tracks show how humans harassed giant ground sloths

"White Sands National Monument is a strange place. Hemmed in by military installations, it's the only national park I know of that's had to cope with "errant missiles." The park also tangles with the ravenous appetites of African oryx, introduced as game animals in the 1960s and finding New Mexico perfect to their tastes. But perhaps the oddest aspect of this remote park is what remains of its distant past. During the Pleistocene, over 12,000 years ago, mammoths, saber-toothed cats, and other megafauna left their footprints around an enormous, ancient lake. Those traces remain, weathering out of the arid desert flats, and, among this fantastic aggregation of tracks, paleontologists have what was either an Ice Age hunt or the Pleistocene equivalent of cow tipping…."
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Amicalement
Armand

LOL. Are you implying that Native Americans had an "evil" streak like everyone else on the planet? How dare you suggest such a thing? :)

Dan

It seems a wild surmise to me. Are the human and sloth tracks contemporary? Are we sure this is not hunting? Could the humans be luring the beasts away from their encampment to protect their own?
Is it possible its some sort of rite of passage?

Using a phrase like " jerk behaviour" lowers the articles' credibility and by linking survival hunting from the past with the needless cruelty that is modern hunting seems to suggest an agenda.

(smile)

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Armand

They probably tried to tip over the mother of all armadillos, but it rolled into a giant ball and crushed them.

Dan
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