Kangaroos win when Aborigines hunt with fire
Monday, August 4, 2014 - 02:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Australia's Aboriginal Martu people hunt kangaroos and set small grass 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.