Just earlier I had walked to the store and back, came back to my dogs wanting to go pee. It’s kinda hot today and I was out of it, grabbed the leash, forgot to put it on and then opened the door as my husky dashed out before I realized I fucked up. Chase after her and she just ran to her usual pee spot, pissed and then ran back to the door of our apartment. I was expecting her to just bolt, like she has always done before.
Sled dogs are crazy. So much stamina.
Here’s a blog post about some science The Canine Kings of Endurance | Runner’s World - https://www.runnersworld.com/training/a20832277/the-canine-kings-of-endurance/
That dog in the picture though. Betcha anything it didn’t start at the beginning but just joined later in the race. Little cheater.
Wait till you hear about humans.
While most of us these days are obese, humans as a species are capable of running indefinitely. Because of that, we could hunt faster prey by simply tiring them out
I know about humans. A sled dog would not prosper on the savannah. Humans are everywhere. 34% of the global mammal biomass is humans.
This and uncanny ability to pickup shit on the go. Who the fuck just bows a little and scoops up water in their hooves to drink while running?! WHY AREN’T YOU STOPPING EVEN TO DRINK?!
And throwing. “Well, at least they’re over there. If they come closer, I’ll fuck them up.”
… “Did they just yell ‘Heads up, shitass’? What the fuck, is that A FLYING ROCK”
I never thought about it but yeah you are right, we can eat and drink stuff while on the move, plus we can sweat and control our body temperature
Yup, it’s the sweat thing that makes us able to run indefinitely, as long as we’re in good shape. I hate the feeling of sweating, but it’s pretty much magic that with how much heat my body generates, my resting body temperature is actually pretty low, maybe 36.1C.
Throwing that *we word around a bit loosely here.
“Where we all goin?” - Dog probably
Btw this would be physically impossible for it right? Even half marathons are something thay basically only a very few specific animals can do right?
Nah dogs have mad endurance too. My dog comes mountain biking with me and runs 20 miles, I have a friend that rode 40 miles with his border Collie following. I have another friend that studies mountain lions and hikes with a rat terrier trained to sniff out scat and they do about 15-20 miles/day
Dogs have been hunting partners for humans for likely tens of thousands of years. They should have comparable endurance…they go wherever we go
Some older dogs - well, at least one good boi I met by a stunning lake - will run and run and run to the point they can barely walk the following days. Dog sooo wanted to fetch this stick so owner has to ask:
Please don’t throw that stick. […]
Can take his youth… not his drive!
They have good enough endurance for the hunts they’d be involved with us for, but we are almost uniquely suited for endurance in the animal kingdom.
Becoming terminators is maybe the real thing that launched our ancestors.
Dogs are one of those specific animals. There’s a reason they got domesticated into dogs in the first place - because they’re the closest to be able to keep up with a hairless monkey at running after an injured animal.
Yeah i see from the other comments as well. Now that you point it put its logical that humans would pick wolves/dogs, the only animals that could keep up.
Our 10lbs dog can come on 25km walks/hikes with us and wants to continue so a larger dog like that following humans at what isn’t running running speed for a dog that large? As long as water was available and temperature wasn’t too high, I would believe it…
I just did a web search and people do it with their dog, even smaller breeds…
Wolves are the most prolific persistence hunters. It’s like thier whole thing
Where whole thing?
Werewolf thing!
I went I for a pee and then I started run-ing.
Boi fast
How fast you can get when you really hard need to pee…
I hope his name is Forest…
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He is speed
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I doubt this. Humans are exceptionally well adapted for running. It might be the key thing that differentiates us. We probably evolved to be persistence hunters, meaning we ran down our prey. We just kept going and going until the prey overheated and we got the easy kill.
We sweat. This is the big one. We are incredible at cooling.
Our breathing is independent of our stride.
Our head is stabilized.
Our butts are overlarge for our bodies. They provide stability.
Look up the horse vs human races. Humans tend to win long distance runs.
We sweat.
Not only do we sweat, we also don’t have fur. Bare skin is more efficient at evaporation and cooling than sweaty fur.
Our butts are overlarge for our bodies. They provide stability.
I wish
I would say try E but looking at your name that’s probably on the agenda
yes it is :3
I’m on the way, I already have a therapist and I’m out to my parents and am in a generally supportive environment.
Bwahh!
Our butts are overlarge for our bodies. They provide stability.
And make it so we need to wipe when we poop!
That’s also a food thing. Plenty of domestic animals could also do with a wipe where most wild animals are fine.
Would not be so sure about that. Running is our specialty, especially with regard to endurance. A properly trained dog vs. a properly trained marathon runner would probably be an even match.
Nope, dogs/wolves have evolved for speed, not endurance.
Humans have evolved for endurance, we hunted by stalking a prey until it was too exhausted to keep going or to fight back.
ha, between speed and endurance, I have neither
wait, I’m an eagle
I think they’d only win if you count running distance proportional to body length.
