Well, it took us a while to invent vulcanization.
Those murderers in 2000’s scary movies that just walked after their running victims were real all along.
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?
LSD combined with meth: ok, maybe just this once
Animal horror meme
“yes”
Immortal snail theory.
Turns out the immortal snail was the friends we made along the way
No, those were decoy snails.
The immortal snail was the journey, not the destination
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?
Does this antelope look like doge or does doge look like antelope?
Yes
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)
Humans are to animals what Jason Vorhees is to promiscuous teens.
What Michael Myers is to his relatives.
What Freddy Krueger is to people who go to sleep
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
I have zero clue what this means
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
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 sweat but antelopes don’t. this means that humans (and also wolves and some other social canids, and hyenas that pant instead) can just jog following a herd until antelopes collapse from heat exhaustion. this is called persistence hunting
Mongolians still fuck with it as far as I know, also coupled with falcons
Now the most persistent hunting my dog and I do is to the kitchen to rummage for a snack.
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.
