@cypnk the wolf is me
@cypnk Hah! Who is the author?
@varx Goes by the name Jake. He’s @ jakelikesonions on the birdsite. Gotta warn you, he’s hilarious, but some of the comics can be a bit dark
@cypnk the best part is that jogging *is* the human hunting gait.
We can't keep up with a gazelle, but we *can* jog after them all day in the savannah sun until they die of exhaustion. 👨🏫
@RAOF I think I read about this somewhere. A lot of herd animals are good at sprinting, but burn through their energy fairly quickly. But humans can keep going for hours, if not the whole day. A single animal could feed a whole family for a week or longer so it’s still with it
That does explain why we’re unusually good at marathons
@cypnk Humans have a bunch of adaptations for endurance - the bipedal gait is more efficient, and unlike almost all mammals we're significantly hairless and have sweat glands all over our body, so we can dump metabolic heat extremely well.
There are still human communities which practice endurance hunting.
@RAOF I didn’t know that. I’m assuming these hunters are mostly people who live on open plains or less rocky/wooded regions? We’re pretty slow on those
@cypnk David Attenborough's “The Life of Mammals” had an episode on it, which is where I saw it first, I think.
Wikipedia thinks that Mexico and the Kalahari desert is where you'll find modern endurance hunters.
@RAOF That makes sense. I haven’t been to Mexico, but I know that area bordering Texas and the terrain is similar to Chihuahua and the Copper Canyon. The valleys are perfect for cornering and predicting where prey might run. The flat lands are great for keeping visual contact
Kalahari is mostly flat too so they don’t lose prey easily
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@cypnk They're just jealous cause they can't jog like us.
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