Kangaroos Win When Aborigines Hunt with Fire
Sunday, August 3, 2014 - 22:31
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Australia's Martu people hunt kangaroos and set small fires to catch lizards, as they have for at least 2,000 years. A University of Utah researcher found such man-made disruption boosts kangaroo populations - showing how co-evolution helped marsupials and made Aborigines into unintentional conservationists.