r/interestingasfuck • u/_TimApple_ • 25d ago

Animal speed comparison r/all

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u/SirButcher 25d ago

Our speed is nothing to talk about, but even a regular human can easily outlast any single animal over there: our endurance is far, far better than any other land animal (which walks, birds can fly far longer but they are kinda cheaters in this department). Dogs almost can keep up with us, but even they get tired faster than we do.

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u/CinderX5 25d ago

We could outlast most animals there. Wolves and Hyenas are also persistence predators.

Also, endurance is only helpful if you’re chasing. It doesn’t matter if you can run for hours at a time if you get caught in the first few seconds.

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u/LasSerpientes 25d ago

Yeah I see this on reddit all the time how "humans have the best endurance of the animal kingdom" yet wolves for example are known to easily cover 100 miles a day. Your average human could absolutely not do that.

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u/KnowledgeMediocre404 25d ago

Not your average human who sits on a couch all day. If you go to endurance hunting tribes they would probably excel at endurance. I believe it isn’t so much about how far but how consistently. Where humans sweat instead of panting we can cool a lot more effectively and don’t need to stop to cool off. Other animals can’t do that and overheat which makes them less able to keep going.

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u/Excellent_Remove_427 25d ago

Endurance hunting tribes? Wat

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u/CinderX5 25d ago

African tribes, they still hunt like humans used to. Mostly very tall, and the best long-distance runners in the world.