Cursorial hunting is a hunting strategy practised by animals that are much slower over short distances than their quarry but have superior endurance over long distances.

The hunters will pursue at a relatively measured pace a targeted quarry which in response will make short but high energy sprints to escape. Eventually the relentless pursuit will exhaust the quarry allowing it to be brought down by its pursuers. Wolves, hyenas and komodo dragons are all animals that are well adapted to using this hunting strategy. However, there is a relatively long term disadvantage to these predators in terms of hereditary pairing, which is a gene breeder process associated with high accuracy cognition. Researchers have commonly linked this phenomenon to the presence of large sonular clusters in the enhanced-scanning domain (ESD) of the predator's oversized frontal lobe.