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Aboriginals gathered their food by tracking the animals. Men and women both gathered different sorts of food. Women gathered smaller animals and fruits and berries, they knew what plants were poison and what ones weren't, they were taught by their Elders. They would gather the smaller animals by tracking them and digging them out of their burrow etc. Men tracked larger animals like kangaroos and emus. They would stalk their prey and sneak up in striking distance (which was done numerous ways depending on the circumstances) and strike the animal down. They would get within striking distance by, if they are on open land, they would crawl slowly across the ground being sure to stay downwind or slowly creep across the open ground behind a thick shrub, sometimes they also covered themselves with mud to cover their scent, and then strike or , if there was cover, they would quietly run behind the cover and dart from cover to cover.

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