Just thinking about how I’ve read that humans are the only animals on the planet that can throw objects with a degree of accuracy. But could a dog or other animal be taught, and trained to throw things to hit a target? I mean, it’s not like a human can throw well without guidance and practice, either.
Most animals don’t have the right bone structure and muscles to throw. A dog for example doesn’t have the range of motion to throw a ball with their forelimbs.
Apes, monkeys, and other aboreal creatures can fling or throw things with some level of accuracy, but not nearly as well as humans.
I was at a zoo at a guided feeding of chimpanzees. The wuide showed us by example, that the apes were way better at aiming than him, and If you give them a food they don’t like, you should wear a helmet, AS they Hit your face with a cabbage from 30m away.
Truly a better war machine then a catapult.