Success in hunting depends on matching the animal’s timing judgment

Evidence

Between each hanging garden and the creekside is a moss-paved deer trail, handy for the hunter to follow, and for the flushed grouse to cross—in a split second. The question is whether the bird and the gun agree on how a second should be split. If they do not, the next deer that passes finds a pair of empty shells to sniff at, but no feathers. — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 206

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The woodcock sky dance starts each evening at a fixed light intensity — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 121; Migrating geese alter their routes and habits according to local hunting laws — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 84; Skillful hunting depends on thinking from inside the prey’s perspective. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 690 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Skillful hunting depends on thinking from inside the prey’s perspective. #expands (0.85) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 690
• Manhunting replaces Clausewitz’s duel with a hunter-prey asymmetry #expands (0.72) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 171
• Animal and human behavior is highly contingent on circumstance #qualifies (0.70) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 439