Week 6: Podcast “Home of the Brave: Running After Antelope” Response – Murray Lu

I listened to the podcast “Home of the Brave: Running After Antelope“.

The premise for the podcast was how the speaker would talk walks and run around through the woods of Wyoming and see animals in his surrounding, primarily antelopes. Not only this, but he talks about how when he is surrounded in this environment, he is able to feel a sense of serenity as he is inside a gentle and quiet environment full of nature. Furthermore, he talks about how animals and organisms separate from each other by how they interact as time goes by as well as the “running hypothesis” that they talked about. I found this podcast to be really interesting cause in many ways, I could relate to this. The running hypothesis proposed how animals could run differently from one another and would create their own ways of hunting or catching animals. While certain animals may be better runners than others, they are still able to find ways to hunt that adapt to their own bodies. For instance, his dogs were able to run much faster and used less the amount of energy than people do. However, the way that the people hunt was far more efficient than his dog despite not being as physically fast.

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