Humans can pursue any animal to exhaustion because we are more energy efficient from walking upright. Even in normal weather the animal's energy reserves will be depleted first.
Find any animal and start walking toward it, you will see. Even if it takes a week, you'll win in the end.
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and yet, this isn't how humans have ever "won". humans win because they can throw dangerous things at these animals from longer distances than the animals can run away from (or attack from) and then walk down the wounded animal. that's really when natural selection of upright walking kinda took off.
Humans can pursue any animal to exhaustion because we are more energy efficient from walking upright. Even in normal weather the animal's energy reserves will be depleted first.
Find any animal and start walking toward it, you will see. Even if it takes a week, you'll win in the end.
This is the correct answer.
not true at all. sled dogs/wolves can go for hundreds of miles at insane paces. very very very false
I thought humans were unbeatable in long distance speed endurance, but recently learned that there’s one land creature, seemingly the only one, that can handily outrun any human in a marathon, running sub-2’ miles with over 10-feet strides seemingly for a long long time with nobody really knowing for how long but it’s suspected they can run a marathon in about 45’.
You do realize that horses were the main form of long-distance transportation for thousands of years, right?
In Southern Kenya, Dorobo hunters use brains and teamwork to secure a meal. Their plan: allow a pride of lions to kill a wildebeest, then steal their dinner ...
and yet, this isn't how humans have ever "won". humans win because they can throw dangerous things at these animals from longer distances than the animals can run away from (or attack from) and then walk down the wounded animal. that's really when natural selection of upright walking kinda took off.
Throwing things is for sure the ultimate human trump card, but we only recently learned how. Most of our milion years of walking around we only had stabbing spears. Not so easy! Very good against bears and lions though, for that poster who's afraid of them
Humans can pursue any animal to exhaustion because we are more energy efficient from walking upright. Even in normal weather the animal's energy reserves will be depleted first.
Find any animal and start walking toward it, you will see. Even if it takes a week, you'll win in the end.
Wow, so you not only have never hunted, you also don't know anyone who hunts and have never bothered to learn anything about hunting...
Go try your game with any random deer you find, and you'll learn something important really quickly (well, assuming you're capable of learning from your mistakes--I forgot, you're the 2600 guy, so learning may not be on your menu).
This is all very well but have you ever tried to hold a pack of wolves in a starting pen for 25 minutes whilst the race director goes through some basic rules, then get them to correctly follow a properly marked course for 26.2 miles?
Pronghorns have been known to run 60 mph in short bursts , 50 mph for a few miles , and 30-35 mph for as much as 20 miles. There are other numerous creatures that could beat a person in a marathon (and obviously distances under that) such as various species of deer, dogs such as huskies, wolves , and probably some other animals that have never tried to waste their energy running longer than 5km.
