I have watched all the seasons of the show “ALONE”.
Where they drop ten people off at some remote location and the last one there wins.
The first couple seasons the people who were good at foraging won. Finally there was a guy who killed a muskox with an arrow. Then stabbed it with a knife to kill it. He won because he had enough meat to survive long term. Even the people who were really good at catching snow shoe hares could not maintain their body weight because they did not have enough fat in their diet. Hares are very low fat meat.
Ever since that season the winner was typically the person who was able to kill a moose, a deer or a whole bunch salmon/lake trout/fish. Eating berries and mushrooms supplements the diet but it does not replace the PROTEIN and FAT in animal/fish meat/fat.
“Hares are very low fat meat.”
There is actually a term for that “rabbit starvation” or something like that. I can’t remember, but just like you said.
And I want to find the episode of that guy killing a musk ox. That is flat out dangerous. Slightly safer than a Cape Buffalo.... slightly.
I thought he'd win...hands down. Revealing the one weakness that early man did not have hanging over their heads.
Homesickness...the mental aspect. Which makes the show, a must-see...for me.