I have to admit liking those ai slop sci fi videos where they get persistence hunting right as a reason humans are an unexpected apex predator
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This is human exceptionalism propaganda
What the hell am I looking at?
Why is it morphed with doge? Doge doesn't talk like that. Why is there perspective on the text? Is this a pic of a screen? Is it supposed to be a deer? Antelope? Elk? All those animals still have ears. What is the thought process that leads someone to put forth the effort into making... this?
"yes"
LSD combined with meth: ok, maybe just this once
Animal horror meme
But it's all good, they're like 30 feet away. They can't possibly hurt me from all the way over there!
Ow! Why am I bleeding?
Time to go again, surely this time they will stop following.
Where did they come from?
Humans are the It Follows demon of prey animals.
I always figured Zombie stories are basically the equivalent of humans creating something that can do to humans, what we do to our prey
Those murderers in 2000's scary movies that just walked after their running victims were real all along.
Humans are to animals what Jason Vorhees is to promiscuous teens.
Does this antelope look like doge or does doge look like antelope?
Dogelope
Yes
Immortal snail theory.
Turns out the immortal snail was the friends we made along the way
The immortal snail was the journey, not the destination
No, those were decoy snails.
Well, it took us a while to invent vulcanization.
Brother in law ran for 22 hours non-stop over mountains.
I've seen ultra-runners "run", it's more of a weird looking walking/power-shuffle than running.
Still absolutely bonkers to do for 22h straight though.
Yeah, last time he looked gaunt (right word?) for a week.
Are you sure you weren't watching a walking Marathon? They look like they're running like Gumby.
Yes, it was a 100k ultra I attended (as a spectator)
I have zero clue what this means
humans sweat but antelopes don't. this is part of what makes humans (and also wolves and some other social canids, and hyenas that pant instead) hilariously good at long distance running and so can just run or jog following a herd until antelopes collapse from heat exhaustion. this is called persistence hunting. this is also why we have domesticated wolves, probably
i'm pretty sure that there's a tribe or a couple of them that practice that form of hunting even today
that's how the story goes, anyway, whether it was actually a thing or a side product or misinterpretation is something else entirely
Plus being upright. Most of our weight is supported by skeleton, rather than muscles that get tired, and walking is mostly a matter of falling forward in a controlled manner
Now the most persistent hunting my dog and I do is to the kitchen to rummage for a snack.
Mongolians still fuck with it as far as I know, also coupled with falcons
I think it's been explained, but to reiterate, while humans aren't fast, we're very good at walking/trotting for extended periods of time - both because we have sweat glands that many animals lack, but also because bipedal locomotion is more efficient over a long distance.
Our earlier ancestors would set out after a herbivore, say an aurochs (the bigger the better), during the hottest part of the day, and cause it to flee. When it stopped to cool, they'd jog up after it and caused it to run away again, until it got so hot that it collapsed from heatstroke.
We're having steak, boys!
Humans have some of the most impressive endurance capabilities of any animal on the planet, particularly when it comes to long-distance running.
Take a cheetah, for example. It can reach roughly 60–70 mph, but it can only sustain that kind of sprint for a matter of seconds before it overheats and has to stop. A human obviously can't come remotely close to that speed, but we can keep running for hours, especially in hot conditions where many other mammals are forced to slow down or stop.
That endurance would have been an enormous advantage for a hunter. Combine it with human-level intelligence, cooperation, communication, and the ability to track prey over long distances, and you end up with what is essentially a soft, squishy killing machine that just keeps coming.
You don't have to be the fastest animal if you can simply keep following your prey until it can't run anymore.
We are the Yautya of our planet.
Or highway star if you like Jojo
Tribes, and wolves and dogs (they are distinct and out pals came from dogs not wolves, their split happened much earlier I've been informed,) would follow herds for months. Indefinitely.