"He's running so slow...."
1 hour later
"How can he still be running like that?"
this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2025
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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.
Jogging is practice for how humans killed pretty much all the megafauna in the world: exhaustion hunting.
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
involved just wounding an animal
not even wounding. Just persistent tracking and following. Most prey animals can run away quickly, but need lots of rest.
Humans can just keep going. And going. And going. Until the prey just is too exhausted to run.
Got it.
I am prey.
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Dogs do love a good jog though. Give that good boi a bit of kibble and then see how he feels.
Other animals get zoomies too.
So this is pretty neat:
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?
Funny enough there is another animal I know that can sweat, have more endurance than humans, and much faster than humans. Horses.
Imagine you fear getting caught by a horse or a human and then suddenly a human riding a horse shows up.
humans can beat a horse in a marathon!
That's pretty cool. However, no human has ever won by more than 15min, and every horse has a 15min delay built into their times. So even the biggest winning margin of nearly 11 minutes would have lost to the horse if they had started at the same time.
The horses also all had humans on their backs. To my knowledge, none of the humans had horses on their backs.
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Back in my reddit days I wrote a long comment about the fact that zombies are scary because they are the ultimate persistence hunters.
Zombies aren't scary. They're popular movie monsters because, while looking vaguely human, they're sufficiently "othered" that you can kill them without remorse (thus acting as a convenient stand-in for other groups that the audience wishes they could do that to) and because they represent an apocalypse that kills most of the people but leaves the stuff behind, meaning that you don't have to deal with society anymore but you'll still easily have a roof over your head and food on your table (albeit mostly canned food.)
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Run for fun? What the hell kinda fun is that?!
Here's to ya' blacksmith 🥃
So apex that most of us outsource our hunting and farming, which makes us fat and slow unless we purposefully burn energy for no other purpose than to burn it.
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Jogging from the perspective of non-human animals
FTFY
🤓☝️
Yeah, some humans also wonder why jogging is a thing.
“I don’t know why they’re running, but let’s chase them!”
Whoever made this has never met a dog
Yeah, this post shows a tragic lack of familiarity with the concept of zoomies.
I say this to myself when I see people jogging and I really just want to yell "what are you running from!?"
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I cannot stop laughing 😂
Personally I think humans run because they are a species with enough cognitive abilities to be masochists
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Let's say it's part of a mating ritual. I know this is not true, but I believe it gets the point across.
I also get confused when I see people jogging, don't they know lounging around eating snacks is way more fun?
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