Brachiation is arm over arm swinging seen in humans, orangutans, gibbons, and monkeys. Chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas all have anatomical features that allow brachiation but they don't often brachiate.
I have heard that in prehistoric times brachiation helped humans ambush their prey.
The only problem I see with brachiation besides your arms getting tired is that in the wild, trees are not often big enough to support a human, not even a brachiating human. Orangutans have solved this problem by holding their weight over multiple branches, even multiple trees and vines while brachiating. Monkeys are so light that they don't need to do this when they brachiate.
Plus if an average human arm is about 2 to 3 feet long from shoulder to fingertip then that means that the forest would have to be pretty dense for a human to brachiate without leaping. And even if we took the orangutan's strategy of brachiating so that we could brachiate without leaping between trees that are 6-8 ft apart(which is the maximum distance a squirrel can leap from branch to branch) there would still be the problem of possibly dislocating your shoulder from stretching too much or worse, breaking your arm from falling off.
So would brachiation help Lisa on her hunts or should she stick to hunting on the ground? I can see how brachiation would help and that is that if Lisa brachiates, her prey is less likely to see her and thus there would be less adrenaline in the meat and adrenaline makes meat taste bad. But then again brachiation in the trees makes rustling sounds and when prey hears a rustling sound they think "Oh, no a predator is after me. I better run or defend myself." Also Lisa might not see her prey if she goes high enough. Lisa is very good at not making a single sound on the ground but has never tried hunting in the trees. She has however climbed trees ever since she was very young and still loves climbing trees even though her main form of transport is walking and her civilization is mostly underground.
So should she try brachiating and hunting in the trees or should she stick to hunting on the ground?
I have heard that in prehistoric times brachiation helped humans ambush their prey.
The only problem I see with brachiation besides your arms getting tired is that in the wild, trees are not often big enough to support a human, not even a brachiating human. Orangutans have solved this problem by holding their weight over multiple branches, even multiple trees and vines while brachiating. Monkeys are so light that they don't need to do this when they brachiate.
Plus if an average human arm is about 2 to 3 feet long from shoulder to fingertip then that means that the forest would have to be pretty dense for a human to brachiate without leaping. And even if we took the orangutan's strategy of brachiating so that we could brachiate without leaping between trees that are 6-8 ft apart(which is the maximum distance a squirrel can leap from branch to branch) there would still be the problem of possibly dislocating your shoulder from stretching too much or worse, breaking your arm from falling off.
So would brachiation help Lisa on her hunts or should she stick to hunting on the ground? I can see how brachiation would help and that is that if Lisa brachiates, her prey is less likely to see her and thus there would be less adrenaline in the meat and adrenaline makes meat taste bad. But then again brachiation in the trees makes rustling sounds and when prey hears a rustling sound they think "Oh, no a predator is after me. I better run or defend myself." Also Lisa might not see her prey if she goes high enough. Lisa is very good at not making a single sound on the ground but has never tried hunting in the trees. She has however climbed trees ever since she was very young and still loves climbing trees even though her main form of transport is walking and her civilization is mostly underground.
So should she try brachiating and hunting in the trees or should she stick to hunting on the ground?