persistence huntingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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persistence hunting (uncountable)

1. A type of hunting where the predator uses a combination of running and tracking to pursue the prey to exhaustion.

   Synonym: endurance hunting

   • 2009 March 18, Maywa Montenegro, “The Running Man, Revisited”, in Seed‎^[1], archived from the original on 23 March 2009:

     Lieberman believes they ran their prey to death, often called “persistence hunting.”

   • 2016, Joseph Henrich, chapter 5, in The Secret of Our Success […] , Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN:

     Supplied with water, any good marathoner probably has the endurance to chase down a zebra, antelope, or steenbok. However, there's more to persistence hunting than endurance, a lot more.