I may possibly be wrong about the birds...
Only kidding.
Was bored, searching on throwing sticks
and boomerangs (which are also throwing
sticks and, behold, I actually found two
SUCCESSFUL examples of their use to
collect food.
The first was knocking fruit off a tree branch.
The second was bringing down bats!
Actually, bats meet all my criteria. I argued
in the past that throwing sticks would be
best against birds and small prey and mostly
against birds.
You don't have to kill a bird. You just have
to injure it enough so it can't fly.
Same with bats.
And I argued that birds are often found in
flocks so missing the one you're aiming for
still leaves you a chance of hitting another
one.
Same with bats.
But it was the fruit that got me to go, "Hmmm."
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