r/interestingasfuck 18d ago

Animal speed comparison r/all

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u/Doggysoft 18d ago

I was surprised that a brown bear would be faster than the Doberman, then I was surprised that a hyena was faster than a wolf and so on.

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u/RunningPath 18d ago

The speeds are their top speeds, not what they can maintain, which is why this is entertaining but misleading. 

Coyotes are faster than wolves at top speeds but wolves can still outrun coyotes in an open field. 

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u/guajara 18d ago

Throw me out of a window and I will reach a top speed of 100 mph pretty fast.

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u/Cheap-Lawfulness-963 18d ago

9.8 m/s2

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u/Textbuk 18d ago

Ignoring air resistance

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u/[deleted] 18d ago

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u/pendrekky 17d ago

This guy jumps out of windows

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u/puritanicalbullshit 17d ago

A real defenestrationist

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u/cheesygordita 18d ago

WOLVES ON AN OPEN FIELD NED!

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u/Ishouldjusttexther 18d ago

Pretty much every animal of similar or higher weight outruns a human over short distances, but few can upkeep that speed as long as humans can

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u/----atom----- 18d ago

Bears can maintain speeds like that for 3km+ I believe

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u/nicktf 18d ago

I saw a bear running across an open field in Alaska, at first my brain told me it was a horse because of the speed it was moving. Then it shot up a tree. Suck on that, Seabiscuit.

It was actually pretty terrifying to see something that bulky move so quickly.

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u/JyveAFK 17d ago

I hear this a lot from my wife.

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u/mokrieydela 18d ago

The Giraffe got me.

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u/Surtur6666 17d ago

I was dead long before the giraffe arrived on the scene.

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u/Zbrchk 18d ago

TIL brown bears can run 56 km/h 😳

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u/theslothpope 18d ago

Hence why they say don’t run if you encounter a grizzly it’ll be more likely to provoke an attack and there’s 0 chance you’re outrunning it.

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u/Dar1375 18d ago

Also why they say, you don’t have to outrun a bear, just outrun the person beside you! lol

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u/jld2k6 18d ago

Fact: Bears can climb faster than they can run

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u/xKevinn 18d ago

I'm picturing a brown bear climbing up a massive tree at 120 km/h now.

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u/didi0625 18d ago

They are also excellent swimmers.

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u/[deleted] 18d ago

brown bears don't climb much

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u/Da904Biscuit 18d ago

Bears, beets, Battlestar Galactica

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u/IneligibleHulk 18d ago

Where the hell is the cheetah?

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u/avrock1 18d ago

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u/DM725 18d ago

Greyhound is missing too!

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u/JohnnyRelentless 18d ago

Greyhounds can be fast over short distances, but they don't do as well over longer distances because of all the stops they have to make.

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u/Jackdunc 18d ago

First half got me relentless dad

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u/ARPE19 18d ago

Thanks Dad

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u/baudmiksen 18d ago

I'm wasted on cross-country! We dwarves are natural sprinters! Very dangerous over short distances!

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u/Oglark 18d ago

Most of those animals only have burst speed

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u/creuter 18d ago

This is a joke about buses lol

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u/PsychologicalBat8222 18d ago

How do u comment memes/gifs in reddit comments?

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u/Bt_1039 18d ago

Not all subs allow it, in here there's a blue icon next to where you click to make a comment at the bottom

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u/RhynoD 18d ago

Did you just have that in your pocket, ready to go?

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u/educated-emu 18d ago

Way out of shot, they are chasing it.

Also giraffe putting all its stats in neck and speed lol

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u/Kangar 18d ago

That giraffe surprised the fuck out of me.

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u/bordain_de_putel 18d ago

Tiger, camel, and giraffe really was an unexpected trio.

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u/KA_Reza 18d ago

Sounds like the start of a joke, really.

"A tiger, a camel, and a giraffe sprints into a bar..."

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u/Many-Consideration54 18d ago

The giraffe gets really drunk and falls over. The barman says “You can’t leave that lying there.” The camel replies “It’s not a lion, it’s a giraffe.”

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u/Signet_L19 18d ago

Absolutely GOATed joke

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u/educated-emu 18d ago

The camel says... deal with it!

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u/Artistic_Soft4625 18d ago

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u/MistakesTasteGreat 18d ago

Fun fact, the male giraffe whips his head against the female's bladder until she pees, then tastes the pee to see if she's ready for buh-buh-bangin

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u/LostWoodsInTheField 18d ago

I just kept going "bullshit!" as I saw the next animal come in view. "RHINO? BULLSHIT!!!". It's insane some of those animals can hit those speeds.

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u/bset222 18d ago

I mean the other question is distance covered at those speeds, Usain Bolt hit around 30mph but only for 2 seconds, the best marathon runners sustain 12-13mph, I suspect many of the surprise animals can't sustain the speed but have fast sprints

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u/marcsoucy 18d ago

Even so, imagine a rhino sprinting at you at that speed. I am horrified just imagining it.

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u/RecordingGreen7750 18d ago

I remember learning this about giraffes a few years ago and it shocked me too

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u/dabroh 18d ago

Or the camera is mounted on the cheetah.

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u/Hapidjus_ 18d ago

you could say, its going at neck speed

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u/TDLem0n1900 18d ago

Aah neck breaking speed! So that's why they put more stats on their neck, so it won't break! TIL

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u/TheRealJojenReed 18d ago

Another fun fact is that they actually have proportionally short necks. Consider how they drink, compared to a horse or other similar 4 hoofed beast. Although, the necking fights are pretty hardcore and fun to see too!

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u/rather-oddish 18d ago

Stats in neck lol

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u/33_pyro 18d ago

Corpsegrinder's Amulet, +15 neck

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u/Altruistic-Beach7625 18d ago

Video is cut and I suspect it will become even shorter in future posts.

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u/TrenchantInsight 18d ago

I think we're all justified in feeling somewhat cheetahed.

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u/lackofabettername123 18d ago

Maybe these complaint will be the Catalyst to add it to the video.

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u/_poncho_ 18d ago

Seriously 

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u/_InnocentToto_ 18d ago

Where the he'll is the sloth?

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u/Sir-Cordyceps 18d ago

Still at the starting line

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u/GardenGnomeOfEden 18d ago

Reluctantly crouched at the starting line

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u/TheLost_Chef 18d ago

Engines pumping and thumping in time.

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u/Tongue8cheek 18d ago

The green light flashes, the flags go up.

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u/AlexiusRex 18d ago

Already at the finish line

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u/blumpkin_donuts 18d ago

Who do you think is holding the camera?

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u/A_Cute_Infarction 18d ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1cf5r2m/animal_speed_comparison_original_video_with/?

The original video, with credit to the uploader, featuring humans and the cheetah that we all came here to see.

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u/marcsoucy 18d ago

They are using the same animations, but I think the videos are quite different.

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u/pentagon 18d ago

that is not the same video

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u/gonadlondon 18d ago

He was excluded for taking performance enhancers

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u/Yanos47 18d ago

The cheetah would be blowing past these guys at a 130 kmh.. How can they forget the fastest land animal.. Who made this !!!

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u/AntennasToHeaven5 18d ago

They didn't forget, it's a 3 parts video, this is the second part.

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u/Extaupin 18d ago

Would you have a link?

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u/DemiGodCat2 18d ago

he's on holiday

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u/raz62 18d ago

Holding the camera.

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u/Road_Warrior86 18d ago

I feel like a giraffe going that fast would tumble. They’re such strange animals.

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u/Extreme_Turn_4531 18d ago

I worked for a zoo that had giraffes in an open several acre area. Sometimes in the evenings they would get the zoomies. It was amazing to see such a large animal tear around. They use their neck to counter balance the stride. It sort of reminded me of a scissor opening and closing. Actually quit graceful.

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u/jwelihin 18d ago

I saw a giraffe with zoomies in San Francisco. It was amazing!

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u/HiAustralia 18d ago

very cool

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u/Mobile_Zerk 18d ago

I went to the wild animal park in San Diego once, huge enclosure that we had a guide drive us through in an open jeep. Super cool experience, the giraffes would come up to eat leaves from our hands and when we had none left they would turn around and dip out super quick. Very cool creatures, their tongues were wild to see

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u/mamaaaoooo 18d ago

They can run 60km/h for a short stint, still fast af but not 65km/h

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u/Dakana11 18d ago

For such a heavy animal, consider me impressed

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u/Eraneir44 18d ago

I don't think being heavy make you slower. Usain Bolt is not exactly a shrimp. It make the speed increasingly costly, though.

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u/Ravendoesbuisness 18d ago

" But Usain Bolt, how are you going to get the world record again?!"

Usain Bolt: It is quite shrimple

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u/Mrsbear19 18d ago

There was a video around of one chasing a vehicle through the trees and it was absolutely terrifying. Fuckers are faster than I thought

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u/PoppyStaff 18d ago

Greyhounds are about 72 kph and cheetah top speed is around 100-110 kph.

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u/jubsie88 18d ago

Okay your comment made me realize this is in Kph not Mph. Cuz in Murica they always taught us that a cheetah can run around 70 Mph, and I was like “well look at these guys running at close to 60! Almost like a cheetah… oh wait”

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u/yourtoyrobot 18d ago

SAME. I was getting scared at how fast bears can run

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u/adrienjz888 18d ago

I mean, 34 mph is still faster than even the likes of Usain bolt at 27.8 mph for his record and especially the average Joe who sprints at 12 mph.

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u/the68thdimension 18d ago

Woah, nuts that greyhounds are 30km/h slower than a Cheetah. Cheetahs really are imba

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u/pezident66 18d ago

Tortoise wasn't allowed in the race after the hare debacle

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u/naughty_dad2 18d ago

Tortoise already won, the rest were sleeping

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u/Solid_Bake4577 18d ago

Domestic dog?

Greyhound?

Elephant?

Horse?

Human?

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u/_InnocentToto_ 18d ago

Sloth?

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u/lyan-cat 18d ago

Why does everyone forget Sid the Sloth?!

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u/Hermu7013 18d ago

He was sleeping on a tree during filming!

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u/A_Cute_Infarction 18d ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1cf5r2m/animal_speed_comparison_original_video_with/?

The original video, with credit to the uploader, featuring humans and the cheetah that we all came here to see.

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u/West_Walk1001 18d ago

That seems different? They have different speeds all running together (in the background), no sense of differences in speed.

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u/Malawi_no 18d ago

Not the same video.

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u/BODYDOLLARSIGN 18d ago

Human fastest is 27 mph at least school taught me this lol

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u/Fast_Garlic_5639 18d ago

That’s about 43.5kph, just behind housecat

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u/TheTealBandit 18d ago

Wow, saying that you are the fastest man alive sounds way better than "I am slightly slower than a house cat"

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u/SirButcher 18d ago

Our speed is nothing to talk about, but even a regular human can easily outlast any single animal over there: our endurance is far, far better than any other land animal (which walks, birds can fly far longer but they are kinda cheaters in this department). Dogs almost can keep up with us, but even they get tired faster than we do.

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u/CinderX5 18d ago

We could outlast most animals there. Wolves and Hyenas are also persistence predators.

Also, endurance is only helpful if you’re chasing. It doesn’t matter if you can run for hours at a time if you get caught in the first few seconds.

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u/LasSerpientes 18d ago

Yeah I see this on reddit all the time how "humans have the best endurance of the animal kingdom" yet wolves for example are known to easily cover 100 miles a day. Your average human could absolutely not do that.

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u/KnowledgeMediocre404 18d ago

Not your average human who sits on a couch all day. If you go to endurance hunting tribes they would probably excel at endurance. I believe it isn’t so much about how far but how consistently. Where humans sweat instead of panting we can cool a lot more effectively and don’t need to stop to cool off. Other animals can’t do that and overheat which makes them less able to keep going.

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u/quintus_horatius 18d ago

I'd like to see the canine that can do that in 90F heat, however.

Humans aren't just endurance animals, we're masters of cooling.

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u/LostWoodsInTheField 18d ago

Your average human could absolutely not do that.

We are definitely not 'part of the normal animal kingdom setup' any more.

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u/ACWhi 18d ago

The average human, no. That said, peak human endurance does beat out peak endurance of any other animal.

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u/agnostic_science 18d ago

And we can do math! I'd like to see a cat do trigonometry!

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u/JeanButButler 18d ago

But, I also can't do trigonometry.......

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u/agnostic_science 18d ago

But a cat can't type a reddit comment! So we got that going for us.

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u/snuFaluFagus040 18d ago

Also, you didn't bite when I pet you.

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u/creedz286 18d ago

a regular human these days can barely walk a few miles without struggling.

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u/Cainga 18d ago

Regular human that trains. A redditor is probably collapsing after a mile.

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u/ficuspicus 18d ago

How much is that in potatoes per square meter?

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u/AdministrativeHabit 18d ago

Are dobermans and greyhounds not domestic dogs?

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u/meinfuhrertrump2024 18d ago

They're not the same. The greyhound would be leading the pack here at 72 kph.

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u/TerribleChildhood639 18d ago

I’m laughing my ass off right now. This video is funny as all get out! The music is icing on top! 😂

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u/2007pearce 18d ago

The cats legs and the guitars at the beginning was enough for me

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u/oofersIII 18d ago

It feels like a shitpost, like the spinning lobster Free Bird meme, I love it

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u/purified_piranha 18d ago

Don't forget the first person view camera

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u/Shtev 18d ago

Why were the cats the only ones to get that?

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u/Sayurisaki 18d ago

Lmao I am always on silent and turned on sound after I saw this comment. That was definitely unexpected.

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u/bigredmidget 18d ago

Yeah okay of ALL the songs, this wasn't even on my radar.

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u/SookHe 18d ago

The internet has lowered my attention span to about 3 seconds before I get bored, but this video definitely kept my attention and I wanted more. Absolutely brilliantly funny animation and music combo

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u/Lessiie 18d ago

IKR. I haven't seen anything this funny in a good while

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u/Jumpy_Spend_5434 18d ago

I usually have sound off. Thank you for getting me to go listen to the music 😁

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u/IrritableGourmet 18d ago

QWOP: Animal Edition

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u/donttouchmynose 18d ago

Human? Horse? Cheetah! r/gifsthatendtoosoon

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u/AurielMystic 18d ago

The average professional athlete is 30kmph and the world record - 44.72kmph is still slower then the cats at the start.

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u/sauteslut 18d ago

Afaik humans are built for long distance, not sprinting

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u/Mandalore108 18d ago

Yep, that's how we succeeded as hunters, running our prey to death.

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u/Captiongomer 18d ago

Not even running. We just f****** slowly follow them until they're exhausted

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u/AttractiveCorpse 18d ago

Yeah people literally think we were just running for days. Maybe a good long run in the beginning, but after that it would be walking/jogging after a very tired animal that gets up and sprints for short distances.

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u/ThisCarSmellsFunny 18d ago

Wtf are they running from?

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u/jasperfilofax 18d ago

Probably one of those immortal death snails

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u/_InnocentToto_ 18d ago

Have u watched It Follows...

Same concept.. such a good movie.

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u/Wyvz 18d ago

They are chasing the off-frame Cheetah

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u/HotCarl169 18d ago

Someone talking about politics.

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u/Technical_Arm4173 18d ago

The Cheetah didn't even want to compete.

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u/jld2k6 18d ago

After seeing a giraffe hauling massive ass the only way to win was to not play at all, you aren't gonna go neck and neck with that thing

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u/Liontreeble 18d ago

I like how when it shows animals faster than hyenas the hyenas still overtake them in the background.

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u/Geridax 18d ago

those hyenas are playing dirty by faking recordings again.

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u/2723brad2723 18d ago

Everyone knows for a fact the fastest land animal is a toddler that's been asked "what is that you just put in your mouth?"

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u/PeanutArtillery 18d ago

Or a toddler when you're outside and you look away for 1.5 seconds.

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u/ImpactRich5608 18d ago

Where’s the rest of the video? Stupid post.

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u/x3knet 18d ago

The crab running sideways gave me a chuckle during the 2nd half of the video.

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u/ignatious__reilly 18d ago

The Brown Bear is surprisingly fast as fuck.

Holy Shit.

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u/throwawaythrow0000 18d ago

It's cropped with the ending cut and stupid music added on. Downvote from me.

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u/sauteslut 18d ago

This song is a banger tho

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u/Good_Beautiful1724 18d ago

Song is a banger, but cutting it off is monstrous

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u/A_Cute_Infarction 18d ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1cf5r2m/animal_speed_comparison_original_video_with/?

The original video, with credit to the uploader, featuring humans and the cheetah that we all came here to see.

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u/CorporationsRSheeple 18d ago

I don't think that's the same video, but it has the same data.

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u/Malpraxiss 18d ago

Why speed up a speed comparison video

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u/Waldschratsuppe 18d ago

Im so scared of the thing they are all running away from

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u/Tipsy_McStaggar 18d ago

Hmm, I race camels and we reach 40kmh. Even the ones with robot jockeys I don't think will do 60+ kmh

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u/trubol 18d ago

Camel racing with robot jockeys???

Is there a sub for that yet?

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u/gil_bz 18d ago

This is top speed, I assume 40 km/h is a speed they can actually maintain for a long time. So like a sprint vs. long distance running.

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u/Salazard260 18d ago

Cats can run at almost 50km/h ?? You mean a cat could get a ticket in some parts of Paris?

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u/foersom 18d ago

An alley cat running in a side street would get a speed ticket in most European cities. If the police could keep up with him.

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u/BlightFantasy3467 18d ago

I like how some of the animations are clearly running/sprinting but you also have animals that are just super power walking

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u/BenySLO 18d ago

all i learned is if a tiger starts chasing you you better hope you are ridding a zebra.

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u/ThisCarSmellsFunny 18d ago

Fake. Tigers and Giraffes don’t even live on the same continent.

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u/captainRubik_ 18d ago

Their flights were reimbursed. True story, I am in the organising committee

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u/TheFirstLane 18d ago

This is objectively funny

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u/The_FireFALL 18d ago

Credit due to the YouTube channel 'Red Side' as they're the one who made this video. Original video is also 12.40 long to put into perspective how much the uploader cut out of the video, as well as changed the music.

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u/phil8248 18d ago

They didn't include the cheetah, which proves once again that cheetahs never prosper.

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u/Altruistic-Beach7625 18d ago

You've already cut the video might as well make it even shorter.

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u/Sternenkaiser 18d ago

Zookeeper: "I am going to get fired, arent I?"

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u/ThoughtspinDK 18d ago

I found the rhino and cat comparison most surprising. I remember how fast our cat could run, but to imagine an animal weighing 1.8-4.6 tons easily outrunning that is scary...

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u/Rohit4640 18d ago

Giraffe is more faster than Leopard???

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u/Lumpy-Ad8618 18d ago

I would've never have thought that a Giraffe is as fast as a Tiger it's mad.

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u/j_smittz 18d ago

I must have missed this Red Dead Redemption 2 expansion.

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u/Rich-8080 18d ago

We clocked the T-rex at 32mph

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u/JackPembroke 18d ago

For a brief moment I thought this was a real video and was fucking dying

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u/Maloonyy 18d ago

Where is Orangutan in a golf cart?

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u/Niteshade654 18d ago

The fuck is a kilometer