{"sf1_id":836927,"sf2_id":"r1736R1x","title":"Adventures in Hunting","author":"Hermes12","words":1041,"posted_at":"2015-03-23T15:40:00.000Z","tags":["Adventure","Endurance","Hunting","M/solo","Violence (Not In Yiff)","persistence","running"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/836927-adventures-in-hunting","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/r1736R1x","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/37/b8/37b8ec36-6519-4854-99b5-288edbaac60a","description":"Hunting naked in the prairie savanna or veldt? Hey, why not?","content":"Based on\u0026nbsp;[Kaa's study](http://www.herpy.net/gallery/data/media/30/Raptor.jpg) of an anthropomorphic velociraptor (assuming that Kaa actually did it).\u0026nbsp;\n\nThe sun appeared over the eastern horizon. \u0026nbsp;The birds were chirping the beginning of the day, and the mice and other mammals were waking up out of their dens to gather food through out the day. A lone figure emerged from his tent from sleeping. \u0026nbsp;To day was the day of his hunt. \u0026nbsp; The scales on his body gave a certain pattern, one that gave him camouflage from his prey. \u0026nbsp;His eyes, were predator's eyes, and were young for eyes. \u0026nbsp;His teeth were sharp, like those of a predator. \u0026nbsp;His body, lean and muscular. \u0026nbsp;His hands had four digits and a thumb, each ending in a claw. \u0026nbsp;His tail was long and sinuous, and provided balance. \u0026nbsp;His loins had a penis and a scrotum dangling down his front, covered in those fine scales. \u0026nbsp;And his feet: \u0026nbsp;he stood on his heel, but ran mostly with his upper foot striking the ground rather than his heel. \u0026nbsp;five of them, and his big toe ended in a wicked upturned claw. \u0026nbsp;The claw was his means of self defense.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\n\nHe walked outside, nude. \u0026nbsp; He prepared his breakfast by catching fish, and then gutting them and cleaning them out. \u0026nbsp;He then skewered them with sticks and put them up around the fire. \u0026nbsp;As his fish cooked, the hunter then started to wrap his tail in golden cords. \u0026nbsp;To the primitive natives, gold had no value other than it could be beaten or spun into fiber. \u0026nbsp;With his tail wrapped, he ate his fish. \u0026nbsp;Anticipating the hunt, he finished his meal in just fifteen minutes. \u0026nbsp; He then proceeded to wrap his feet with\u0026nbsp;golden cords. \u0026nbsp;With his feet wrapped and his wrists covered with bronze bracers, the raptor grabbed his spear and started to look for his prey. \u0026nbsp;And there it was, a beautiful golden gazelle.\u0026nbsp;\n\nHe then stood up and started to run after his prey. \u0026nbsp;His prey, noticing it was going to become dinner, started to run away.\n\n_The human body is superbly adapted for long distance running. \u0026nbsp;Whether or not the Savanna Theory is correct, there is no doubt that the body has many pores that allows it to sweat to control body temperature. \u0026nbsp;The gluteus maximus was not designed to attract the eyes of the amorous, but to provide support for running. \u0026nbsp;Every muscle in the body is adapted to move, and the human body can move. \u0026nbsp;This is the gist of the endurance running theory of [anthropological evolution](http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1520-6505)._\n\nUnlike most dinohunters, the raptor could run. \u0026nbsp;His body began to sweat, to keep him cool. \u0026nbsp; The sweat appeared on his bald head, except for the feathers he used to adorn his head; on his arm pits, his back and his front, his legs, and his groin. \u0026nbsp;He also sweated through his palms and his arms. \u0026nbsp;This\u0026nbsp;maintained his warm body's temperature while running. \u0026nbsp;His muscles rippled as he ran, and when he ran, he struck the ground with his toes. \u0026nbsp; The rippling effect, mostly caused by subcutaneous fat and intra-muscular fat, was not pronounced as it would be in some one out of\u0026nbsp;shape. \u0026nbsp;But his muscles did ripple, but not as much as you would expect. \u0026nbsp;This\u0026nbsp;raptorian man was built to be a lean hunter, hunting for his family.\n\nHe ran the gazelle down, and the gazelle went into a full gallop. \u0026nbsp;But our nude hunter was persistent. \u0026nbsp;He kept running, his upper\u0026nbsp;toes always struck the ground when he ran. \u0026nbsp;Aside from the fish that he ate, he also drank a low alcohol beer that contained all the carbohydrates he needed to prevent using\u0026nbsp;proteins. \u0026nbsp; The gazelle continued to run. \u0026nbsp;As an ungulate, the gazelle was the target of the\u0026nbsp;raptorian man. \u0026nbsp;Lacking the\u0026nbsp;sweat glands that the raptorian man had, the animal tried to pant with it's heat exchange, but its body had begun to overheat. \u0026nbsp;But it had to run, for it's life. \u0026nbsp; It needed to survive, not be food on the dinner table. \u0026nbsp;It continued to run, and run for its life.\u0026nbsp;\n\nOvertime, the gazelle started get tired. \u0026nbsp; It tried to get away,\u0026nbsp;running for its life, and most hunters would have tired by now. \u0026nbsp;But not this smart, built raptorian man. \u0026nbsp;He too had a family to feed, and this is what driven him to continue running after his prey. \u0026nbsp;The gazelle had to find somewhere to hide, but the hunter would eventually catch up to the gazelle. \u0026nbsp;It had to rest, before the animal overheated. \u0026nbsp;The sapient raptor, however, continued to run, stopping every once in a while to track the animal and stay on the trail. \u0026nbsp; The gazelle stopped running, and started to pant, and\u0026nbsp;take in water to replenish and cool his body temperature. \u0026nbsp;He had to stop and rest here. \u0026nbsp;The gazelle then sat down on it's legs and continued to drink from the river.\n\nThe sapient raptorian man tracked the gazelle here, to this river. \u0026nbsp;He passed up another herd of gazelles for this one. \u0026nbsp;He needed to stay on target, and found this one resting. \u0026nbsp;Knowing that it would be some time before he got up and ran again, the raptorian stopped but kept in running mode. \u0026nbsp;Although his body also begged for recovery, his smart sapient mind overcame\u0026nbsp;his body and he got up, stalked his tired prey. \u0026nbsp;when he was but five feet from his prey, his prey looked at him and in a second the spear came down and\u0026nbsp;pierced flesh and bone to the heart of the animal, and the animal was slain. \u0026nbsp;The hero yelled out a victorious yell, as a thank you for nature providing him and his family with more to eat.\n\nWhen the day was done, the hunter came back with the gazelle on his shoulders. \u0026nbsp;It had been gutted and cleaned, and now it needed to be skinned. \u0026nbsp;His family, all naked, would come together and help with the\u0026nbsp;tanning of the leather. \u0026nbsp;They would skin the animal and preserve what meat they had for use. \u0026nbsp; It was a successful day of hunting, and for this family, which lived with other families in a tribe, hunting and foraging could mean that one ate for a day, or starved the next.\u0026nbsp;\n\n  \n  \n\n"}