Boi fast
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
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”
Ah yes, this. We have instinctual need to throw things, because we literally evolved half of our bodies to do so. Give child a rock and see it flying. Our whole science is relying on “throw shit harder”.
I mean, at the end of the day what is particle accelerator if not uber yeetmachine?
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.
I know about humans. A sled dog would not prosper on the savannah. Humans are everywhere. 34% of the global mammal biomass is humans.
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?
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…
It is certainly on the upper end of what dogs can do without inflicting harm on their body, but a one off doesn’t have to be harmless.
I went I for a pee and then I started run-ing.
This is me and you
And we are running
To change the world
Where hope is shining through- the Dog, probablyI hope his name is Forest…
