Andrew Barton wrote:
>
> > Humans however end up being the best possible pack animals for one
> reason:
> > we have predator physiques while all others have prey biology. Any
> pack
> > critter can be pushed over the edge of normal endurance, but when a
> horse
> > or ox gets a sprain you might as well eat it. When people get a
> sprain
> they
> > can rest for a while and recover.
>
> When the British army was working with Arab fighters during world war
> one,
> the Arabs loaded far more supplies onto a camel than the British did.
> The
> difference was, the British were loading them at a rate (set down in
> their
> Staff manuals) that the camels could sustain indefinitely. The Arabs
> were
> intentionally overloading them so that they would last as long as the
> supplies they were carrying, then they'd eat the camels.
>
> Not a strategy most people would use with human pack animals.
>
> Andrew
>
That's a wonderful image -- I think Trolls would do that with pack-trollkin too.
I think I'll have to inflict that on my group somehow. Thanks!
Jeff
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