人类足迹
我们内心潜藏着一个杀手，我们的祖先在演化成为人类之前就已经狩猎。狩猎不仅是为了维生，更是我们根深蒂固的文化。随着人口增长和科技蓬勃发展，现代人类已成为世界上最高效、无处不在的超级捕食者。
为了解人类狩猎的原因，尚恩拜访了生物学家兼猎人怀恩・朗。当尚恩跟怀恩在其爱达荷州的家中一起屠宰怀恩狩猎回来的鹿时，尚恩发现了他以往并不知道的人类与食物的联系。在切萨皮克湾，鸭子猎人霖斯・罗素向尚恩展示了繁荣市场和一场可称为「军备竞赛」的猎鸭枪械发展，如何几乎结束了壮观的野生动物奇观，并催生了新的狩猎监管法律。当人类把杀戮能力带到公海，鲸鱼被推向绝种边缘，并在过程改变海洋的化学成分。尚恩的研究显示，人类为获取象牙猎捕大象，因而创造出无牙雌性大象族群，改变了大象的演化。最后，即使人类努力消灭其他超级掠食者，例如美国西部的土狼，我们发现人类始终无法取代生态系统中的野生掠食者。
狩猎一直是人类故事的一部分，相信未来也会继续如此。我们与旧石器时代的祖先之间的不同之处在于，现在我们知道自己有能力做到什么。掌握这种知识后，我们可以更深思熟虑地使用自己的本能，给野生掠食者留出生存空间，并为「超级掠食者」的称号赋予新意义。
双语广播： 粤语/英语 (电视版 及 网上版)
播出时间： (首播) 2025年4月14日 星期一 晚上10时30分
There’s a killer inside us – our ancestors were hunters before they were even humans. And hunting isn’t just subsistence – it’s deeply ingrained in our culture. As our population has grown and our technologies flourished, modern humans have become the most efficient and ubiquitous hunters the world has ever known: the planet’s new Top Predator.
To understand why we hunt, Shane visits biologist and hunter Ryan Long. Butchering a deer at Ryan’s home in Idaho, Shane rediscovers a connection to his food that he didn’t know he was missing. In the Chesapeake Bay, duck hunter Ramsey Russell shows Shane how a thriving market and a literal arms race nearly ended an epic wildlife spectacle, spurring new laws to regulate hunting. We’ve brought our killing prowess to the high seas, driving whales to the brink of extinction – and altering the ocean’s chemistry along the way. Shane’s own research shows that we’re changing the course of evolution by targeting elephants for their ivory and creating populations where tuskless females are commonplace. Finally, by waging war on other top predators, like wolves in the American West, we’re discovering that humans can’t replace wild killers in our ecosystems.
Hunting has always been part of our story, and it probably always will be. The difference between us and our Paleolithic ancestors is that now we know what we’re capable of. Armed with that knowledge, we can channel our instincts more thoughtfully, leave room for wild hunters, and give new meaning to the title “Top Predator.”
Bilingual: Cantonese/ English (TV Version & Web Version)
Time: (First run) 2025.04.14 MON 10:30pm
