The animals you can't outrun – and the ones you can

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Humans are the best endurance runners in the planet.

In warm climates humans win endurance run against every other animal. In colder climates humans and wolves are about equal, but humans could still win.

Endurance running hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endurance_running_hypothesis

As the bear mused, crunching through a human thigh bone, if I hadn't caught this near monkey on the sprint, it might still be running away for days.

Humans hunted bears, lions and other big predators with just spears.

Human was a prey only by accident.

Human ability to endurance run is not especially relevant to being able to run faster and out-run animals in pursuit.

Endurance tracking by humans is a steady pace, hardly the fastest.

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