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Your comment made me think of cheetahs. An article once claimed that the biggest reason for cheetahs to perish in the wild was that at the speed they're running
by yencabulator 2y ago
Your comment made me think of cheetahs. An article once claimed that the biggest reason for cheetahs to perish in the wild was that at the speed they're running, even a minor mistake means they'll take a tendon-tearing or bone-breaking tumble, and their speed-optimized bodies are relatively fragile. Once they're injured, they are no longer fast, and thus lose their one and only predatory advantage.
Humans really are surprisingly strongly generalist, in ways many other animals are not.
- lukas099 2y agoCheetahs are sports cars.
- RachelF 2y agoSpeaking of Cheetahs, pigeon fanciers like to compare their birds to Cheetahs. A 200gram grain-fueled homing pigeon can maintain 60km/h for an hour. A cheetah can do that for maybe a minute. I've always thought this is not really a fair comparison, as flying through the air probably requires way less energy than sprinting.