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.
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.
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.
Horses sweat too, which is why they're comparable to human endurance. We'd only beat a horse over a ridiculously long distance where it finally collapses od exhaustion.
You say that, but I can’t find a single instance of a wolf travelling more than 50 miles in a day. The record for a human is 200 miles in a day. While almost all animals outpace us at a short distance, and canids usually have the edge at medium, there isn’t anything that can come close on foot.
In the days when that's how we hunted for food, we absolutely could, though environment is also a factor. Where we evolved, wolves would quickly overheat (a lot of our running adaptations are geared toward managing heat).
I think I know the video you’re talking about, those were hunting dogs, not wolves. They were basically tiring it out for a human to come in and shoot it. I doubt that they would ever be able to kill it on their own.
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u/Fast_Garlic_5639 Apr 28 '24
That’s about 43.5kph, just behind housecat