Re: RuneQuest Daily, Thu, 01 Sep 1994, part 3

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From: Paul Reilly (paul@phyast.pitt.edu)
Date: Thu 01 Sep 1994 - 21:12:58 EEST

  Paul Reilly here. Sandy writes:

> Herd men... slow down your herd to a comparitive crawl.

  Hmm. In a sprint, yes. I'm not sure about that in terms of miles per day. Humans are awfully good long distance runners, and herd men may be even better. In _New Scientist_ I saw an article comparing efficiencies of land animals on long distance travel - humans beat all others except kangaroos, who have special tissues that are quite elastic and recover a lot of the energy from each bounce.

  I think that herd men may be less gruesome to eat than Sandy apparently does, also. Westerners disdain monkey, but many peoples happily hunt them for food. People adjust.

  Otherwise we look pretty much agreed. Sandy does bring up the endurance of herd men later on.

  Remember that herd men have been selectively bred, and probably are bigger, have more stamina, and give more milk than their distant human cousins. After all the Morokanth use captured Bison riders for breeding stock...

  And as Sandy points out, the herd men can fight. Our Morokanth Khans keep prize fighting bulls and when two Morokanth tribes meet there is often a boxing match.
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