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Speaking as a hunter, your assertion that northern climates (I live in the north) produce more game is false. Deer populations, to use one example, thrive in wa
by cgh 11y ago
Speaking as a hunter, your assertion that northern climates (I live in the north) produce more game is false. Deer populations, to use one example, thrive in warm temps. Also, compare the African savannah and its abundance of game animals to, say, northern Canada.
The real reasons are probably topography and game habits. The north is generally pretty flat and the ground is often frozen, making travel easy. And in cold temperatures, game often clusters together for warmth and follows predictable movement patterns because there are only so many places to find food. And finally, snow makes it easy to track game of any size.
These are all important in modern hunting too. Not much has really changed in that regard.
- beat 11y agoGood point. I could well be wrong on this. Part of it, too, is that I'm drawing an analogy in my head to cold-water fisheries, which tend to be richer than warm water.
- has2k1 11y agoNorthern climates, offer(ed) predictability for a very long time. In ancient times, you will probably not get human population explosions, but they will thrive in the North. It was easier for populations to blow up in southern climates but then there were resets(generational disasters) -- specifically famine.