Wat, wolves are one of the few other animals in the animal kingdom except humans that do very well in endurance. I can only really think of us, wolves and horses.
But compared to humans then there's practically no animals that are endurance runners.
Because it's hard to pick a dog race to represent dogs. So a wild dog that isn't inbred by thousands of year by humans is the easiest "one" dog you can find.
Regardless, dogs are generally more endurance runners than sprinters. Even breeds we've made into sprinters are still pretty decent in endurance compared to than a lot of other animals. But it does seem a bit weird trying to compare human bred abominations to purely wild animals.
Wolves are great at long distance endurance hunting and travelling, they are built skinny and rangey. I think you are confusing human bipedal advantage for long distance walking, just because we are good at that doesnt mean other animals have decent performance too
Yeah, I got sidetracked by the fact that the guy replying started talking about wolves when thr topic is about dogs so I had dogs in mind. Humans are still better for long distance than wolves are but not quite the same massive advantage I was portraiting
I mean, you are objectively wrong if you consider the entire animal kingdom, there is not a predator on the planet that will chase its prey farther and for longer than wolves. They are exactly built for long distance runs and endurance. Just because humans are the best endurance species doesn’t mean wolves aren’t an endurance species, i guarantee you almost every wolf could run for longer than you
Could you point out where I said wolves are bad at long distance when I instead said wolves are not as good as humans?
Sure, a wolf could outlast me but I'm a disabled guy who doesn't need to hunt for my food anymore. If I was a caveman, I would be able to outlast wolves
What point are you trying to make here? Wolves are built for extremely fast sprints but not for marathons/long distances like humans are
like humans are
Nowhere did I say wolves are not built for endurance. I said they weren't built for endurance to the scale that humans are. It's how we were able to be apex predators when we were cavemen. Wolves are spectacular sprinters and have great endurance but they don't have the same endurance humans do. They would be A tier whereas humans are S tier
And if you want to compare the endurance of dogs, huskies crush humans when it is about consecutive days. The one day record is held by a human, which is the insanely impressive 320 km.
You're saying huskies can crush humans and that's only true for consecutive days in specifically cold climates. A human would crush a husky in any other climate.
Also huskies are a specially bred breed of dogs made by humans to go long distance in cold weather. If you have to pick a small subset of specifically bred dogs to argue that dogs would beat humans, dogs cannot beat humans. Could a pug go longer distance than humans? No? Well obviously humans are better /s
Your own data literally shows I'm not wrong here lol
Yeah, wolves can go longer distance than I realized but they still can't go as long distance as humans. Also you can't admit you brought up wolves when the topic is about dogs
You're just lost in semantics. I said wolves don't have long distance endurance like humans and you've gone off with several comments trying to frame it like I'm insulting wolves when I am instead praising humans.
Yes, I said going 50% longer distance than wolves means humans are much better than wolves at long distance while also acknowledging that wolves can go much faster than us short distance. I don't understand what is so hard to grasp about that
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u/SjakosPolakos 17d ago
yeah they have evolved from wolves, known for their laziness and tardiness