Kangaroos basically do everything we do better when it comes to endurance running, be it distances, average speed or top speeds. And they still get to be incredibly energy efficient while doing so with their unique locomotion style. They absolutely could hunt the same way our ancestors did by simply wearing out prey over extended hunts.
Only reason they did not evolve that way over their evolutionary history is, I imagine, that the only prey they could hunt in Australia that way are other kangaroos, which are just as efficient at running away over long distances. But you know, carnivory evolves pretty quickly in evolutionary time scales, if anything survives us I believe they could get there in time. We even introduced camels in Australia for them to hunt that way.
Can they perspire like people?
Because if not, then they can’t really keep up.
Kangaroos have tiny brains and to be a predator you need to be a bit smarter.
Sucks to be a marsupial in a placental mammal world.
Kangaroos have tiny brains
That sounds like complete nonsense to me.
In fact, mammals are generally big-brained animals compared to the average.
A kangaroo wrote this, I guarantee it
I’m just kinda curious where you heard that kangaroos are especially dumb? (they’re not)
Some science sources, FWIW:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1978492/
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00049539908255344
It’s omnivores that get +2 to int. Predators put all their points into str and dex.
I mean… You have tiny animals like spiders or snakes being very efficient predators. Their brains are microscopic. Im actually amazed by animals like crows, how smart they are and the culture they have, with just small brains like that.
I think the heuristic works better within an animal kingdom… Or maybe I’m just wrong
Many herbivorous animals eat the occasional animal. You can find heaps of YouTube videos of deer eating birds, and that’s just what’s been witnessed and recorded by humans. Some scientists in California recently recorded a population of squirrels that is very adept at hunting voles. Kangaroos may have developed their speed and strength to elude their extinct predators, they may also occasionally use it for a little protein and calcium snack.
It seems that kangas and wallabies are indeed occasional meat eaters:
If kangaroos ever learn to throw rocks, the entire continent of Australia is cooked. They can even carry extra ammo in their pouches!
Technically they might not even need to become carnivores to learn the habit of chasing people down and punching them to death to defend their territory.
Somebody watched tierzoo
