Skillful hunting depends on thinking from inside the prey’s perspective.

Evidence

Lionel grew up in the north woods, hunting, fishing, guiding, making a living off the land in a remote log cabin, carrying on the tradition of the coureurs des bois. He learned trapping from his Indian grandfather who was renowned for his skills on the trapline. To catch a mink, you have to be able to think like a mink. His grandpa was a successful trapper because of his deep respect for the knowledge of the animals, where they traveled, how they hunted, where they would den up in bad weather. He could see the world through ermine eyes and so provided for his family. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 690

Categorization

• XREF: Exemplifies the listening/observation-as-method thread: knowing through empathetic entering-in — echoes ch5 plants warning neighbors and the method of relational knowing central to the polyad. — connects to: Success in hunting depends on matching the animal’s timing judgment — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 206; An imposed hunting rule taught its first ethical lesson in self-restraint — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 433; Hunting, unlike combat, defines violence by the prey’s location (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Hunting, unlike combat, defines violence by the prey’s location #expands (0.85)
• Manhunting replaces Clausewitz’s duel with a hunter-prey asymmetry #expands (0.80) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 171
• Extreme asymmetry in vulnerability transforms war into hunting or slaughter #expands (0.75) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 332