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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Human zoomies feel great :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (4 children)

My favorite is to shout out, 'What are you running from!' when people jog by.

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[–] [email protected] 179 points 1 week ago

"He's running so slow...."

1 hour later

"How can he still be running like that?"

[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I mean, if animals engage in pretend fights and other forms of play, it seems that they can on some level grasp the idea of practicing or doing something for fun.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 week ago

Dogs do love a good jog though. Give that good boi a bit of kibble and then see how he feels.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 week ago (12 children)

I mean, the ability to run long distances without tiring is kind of what makes humans an apex predator. We can out-endurance just about every other creature. Most ancient human hunting techniques involved just wounding an animal, and then literally chasing it until it got too tired to keep going.

Wolves are very similar, which is what made us such natural hunting companions. The co-evolution of humans and dogs is an extremely interesting rabbit hole, if anyone is looking for one.

All that to say, the wolf would understand the need to run more than just about any other animal. A bear would work better here. A wolf would just see us running and think 'game recognizes game', just like they already did eons ago :3

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (25 children)

So this is pretty neat:

https://www.science.org/content/article/born-run-early-endurance-running--may-have-evolved-help-humans-chase-down-prey

Humans aren't good at running fast, but we are good at running for a long time for long distances, so it's thought that we would just run after things until they got tired.

So like you know how people in horror movies would run and then look over their shoulder and Jason is somehow still there?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Back in my reddit days I wrote a long comment about the fact that zombies are scary because they are the ultimate persistence hunters.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

I mean, them being walking corpses might also have something to do with it...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

I remember reading that

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

That is scarier to me than the fast zombies.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Jogging from the perspective of non-human animals

FTFY

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

Yeah, some humans also wonder why jogging is a thing.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Whoever made this has never met a dog

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago

“I don’t know why they’re running, but let’s chase them!”

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