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[Predator] How did a species with such poor senses become obsessed with hunting?

It's been a long time since I visited the lore, so maybe their history explains this.

But from all movie appearances,  Yautja appear to have very poor eyesight, and their senses of smell and hearing don't seem impressive. These senses are absolutely vital for becoming a good hunter. Regardless of the evolutionary pressures that encouraged these traits, it seems clear they'd make poor hunters in the ancient days.

So how did their culture shift towards aggression and hunting? Was the basis for the shift purely technological? Or has their species always been highly aggressive, despite these handicaps? Do they have other senses that makeup for the lack of acuity of their vision? Like the lateral lines of a shark?
gpt
I think the comic lore of the Yautja is that they were a slave race before overthrowing their slavers and stealing their technology. Before they were free and had the tech, there wasn't an opportunity for them to hunt. Once they violently overthrew their captors and potentially genocide the whole other race, they had the technology to assist them in hunts.

I don't think that their hunting culture evolved until after they already had the technology to make up for their biological weaknesses. Their current society was born from a violent revolution, so it makes sense that they would maintain a warrior/hunter mentality.