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Not many animals can outrun a human if the distance is long enough. They get exhausted before us

The theory is that humans’ hunting strategy was not to be faster or bigger than prey but just to have more stamina. So we caught our food by tiring it out, we’re physically not fast or strong enough to do it any other way.

Humans developped skin without fur which allows sweating, this makes it a lot faster to recover or have more endurance.

Honestly terrifying from the animals perspective. theory is one way humans survived as predators was we were able to walk down animals even though they were faster. We’d track them and walk or jog towards them. Theyre exerting way more energy every time they sprint. At a certain point the tanks empty.

Imagine being the animal, you see a group of unknowns approaching and you run away. Theyre just walking, you’re definitely in the clear. A few minutes later they’re there again and the process repeats. No matter what you do they won’t stop tracking you, they won’t give up. Eventually youre completely out of energy, sprinting for miles, taking short breaks to catch your breath while you can, and then sprinting again for your life, then your legs give out youre lying on the ground, panting, and potentially after hours or days of running, on some horror movie shit, these “hairless apes” are still just slowly walking up on you and finally beat you to death with pointy sticks while you can’t even move.

*insert Brooklyn Nine-Nine meme of holts fastwalk*

Humans can outrun every animal on this Planet. We may not be the fastes but we can run the farthest

A physically fit human is often not faster or stronger than a standard wild animal, but we can operate at a high level of effort for way longer. To a human in good shape, a multi-hour jog is doable without any real danger. Many animals can’t exert themselves at that level for that long.

A deer is faster than a human, but a human can run for longer. Therefore, a human can hunt deer by waiting for the deer to tire themselves out running away.

Persistance hunting.

Saw a video of a hunter using this method to take down a kudu (large deer like mamal with huge spiral horns) in a bio class a few years ago. Every time the guy got close the kudu would sprint off, find a shady place and try to rest and lower it’s body temp but they don’t sweat. It takes a long time for body temp to regulate through panting alone. The hunter would jog along following the tracks and catch up with the kudu long before it could cool down. The kudu would flee again…wash, rinse, repeat. If I am remembering correctly it took close to 6 hours but eventually the kudu collapsed and died of heat exhaustion.

Normally I’d be team kudu, but in this particular case I feel like the dude earned a month of sandwiches.

We as a species are built for long distance insurance (that is if you’re reasonably in shape and healthy) we can walk or run for quite a while without tiring, while most prey animals are built for short bursts of speed to escape immediate threats, but due to our ability to plan ahead and be smart, if our prey escapes we can simply follow it until it can’t run anymore, as opposed to having to sneak up and try to kill it as quickly as possible, which is how most predators work. Also I find it funny that they say “primitive short ranged weapons” because of this is form the perspective of an animal any weapon with any range is basically space aged and not primitive at all

Omg.. we’re the snails. It was us all along.