It is because of this that, though 2000 years before Christ in Central Asia and today in Mongolia and Saudi Arabia, nomadic peoples have used the falcon for hunting, it has never been seen as the "most efficient" instrument.
也因此，西元前兩千年中亞與現今的蒙古、阿拉伯等遊牧民族開始利用鷹打獵，鷹不曾被視為「最有效率」的工具。