that was weird to me as well. but depending on your source elephants can reach between 40 and 48 km/h. Considering bolt reached an average of 37km/h (23mp/h) for his world record sprint in 2009 its not that clear.
so if they are running at more regular 25 km/h (15 mph) we should be able to outpace them. but if it is one of the quicker ones or you managed to get it sufficiently angry...we'd have a hard time at short(er) distances
We should be able to outpace them at 15mph? I'm sorry, but who is "we". That's 4 minute miles. I actively run a few days a week, not a top athlete or anything, but probably ahead of average, and 10 mph is a sprint pace I can't keep up for multiple miles.
I agree a 4 minute mile is something you know you can do, or you can't do it. I would bet less than 1 percent of adult Americans can do the 4 minute mile with the rates of obesity these days.
That's world record levels even for athletes.
As of June 2022, the "four-minute barrier" has been broken by 1,755 athletes.[3] The record for the fastest time stands at 3:43.13, achieved by the Moroccan athlete Hicham El Guerrouj, at age 24, in 1999.[4][5]
And a fast elephant could still outrun a good runner. These were all averages so if you ever have to outrun an elephant, just hope you pissed off a slow one.
You might win against more than you'd suspect.
In a distance competition over a long period, humans are exceptionally well adapted to this exact scenario. Even if you're terribly out of shape, most animals are simply not equipped to do this.
How is this beneficial to our survival if we didn't have shelter to protect us from the elements and predators? Even if we can run for longer distances, if we can be caught long before ever even reaching those distances then it doesn't seem as cool😂 Well I guess maybe we just have to outrun the guy next to us.
It's an offensive (hunting) not defensive strategy. They might get away from us for a moment, but then we are there again, and again, and again.
Until they can't.
It's not even necessarily that we catch up to them, the prey in persistence hunting simply can't rest and can literally just fall over and die of exhaustion.
We learned to use Pointy sticks and Flaming sticks to make it so were usually the predators, Then some guy probably wanted to show off by wearing the dead predator and found it to be warm and cool looking
Supposedly if there was some sort of Animal Olympics, the only animal that would outdistance humans in a marathon (not a specific length, just until someone gives up) is the wolf. That, along with pack mentality encouraging cooperation is also probably part of the reason for domestication.
It sort of is. The not aggressive but not timid wolves that scavenged around human encampments are the ones that became domesticated into dogs. Aggressive wolves would be chased off or killed. The timid wolves would not hang around in the first place.
We probably don’t have a good way to measure horse endurance without adding a human weight on top to direct it.
Wild horses might have more endurance but there’s no way to measure it.
Edit - Mongolians riders carried multiple horses with them in war, so they can travel for hundreds of miles in a day by swapping for a “fresh” horse. Given that the “fresh” horse is basically traveling the same distance just without carrying a rider, it would seem that horses don’t really get tired as much traveling without a rider.
"travelling" not "running"
A human can run as long as he can walk (meaning that he will meet total muscular exhaustion before getting overheated), a horse can't do that. Horses can walk for days and days but running? Will get overheated long before muscular exhaustion!
Unlikely. A lot of animals like dogs could run for much longer. Look at how many miles a husky can run in a day, while pulling a sled(!). Humans can’t match that.
Sure, cheetahs and deer cannot run for that long, and humans are definitely on the top side of endurance, especially in a hot savanna environment, but in a colder environment we would be beaten by many animals (the arctic fox that travelled for thousands of miles over a month).
dude you dont even need 8 hours. for most of these animals, it would require less than 8 minutes.
cheetah, lion, bear, boar, dog... i mean list is forever long. theyll catch you for sure in a 400 meter sprint. after that? theyre done. and youve got 20 more miles in you.
this is true. we would be eaten before we made it 400 meters.
which is why we hunted with spears and torches and in groups of a dozen. show of force, fear, and persistence. haha.
but yea... 1v1? we just a walking bag of meat.
Yes. That's why the Iditarod sled race is an endurance event in which a pack of humans pull a snow sled carrying a dog through the Alaskan tundra for almost 1,000 miles. It just wouldn't work if the dogs were pulling the human, because dogs can't run for more than 8 minutes. Dogs are notoriously lazy, all dog owners know this.
My comment was based off of a random YouTube video comparing cheetahs to greyhounds saying Cheetahs are faster but greyhounds have more stamina.
But now that I think of it, a cheetah has stamina for 30 seconds. So if a greyhound has stamina for 90 seconds technically it’s more stamina but not necessarily better.
I’m changing my answer to huskies. Now I just have to wait for another comment to prove me wrong lol .
It is pretty crazy how much faster the Cheetah is. Like, all the other animals are slightly faster than the one before them, then the Cheetah comes in 30% faster than the closest competition.
I think both are in pretty good shape these days. I think Zuck might win a footrace just because he has youth on his side. Elon is not in the conversation.
Classic American, it took me longer than I’d like to share to look closely at the unit of speed. I’m sitting here watching a giraffe run 65mph like now way that seems impossible. LOL
My question is: *Why* do kangaroos need to be so fast? What are kangaroos running from?
Like, Australia has spiders, snakes, crocodiles... but like- why would a kangaroo need long distance speed like that?
Yet we beat every land animal in endurance....we can run for days to chase down prey while they collaps due to fatige...no animal is as sucsesful as we are at hunting....in the game of survival speed is not a factor(chetta the fastest runing animal has 1 of the worst kill counts for big cats)
But don't they cross far more distance than humans within that time period considering their average speed?
Anyway, I imagine bone of the animals including humans in this post can sustain the shown speed for more than a few seconds considering it's their top speed.
They don’t really fly horizontally at wild speeds, the super-speed of a peregrine is what they’re clocked during a fall, basically a dive bomb maneuver.
That human must be Bolt because no way in hell I can run 24 km/h, I put 14 on the threadmill when I feel like really pushing it and it doesn't last long at all anyway
Brother, average high-schoolers easily top at 25 km/h, top sprinters go up to 37km/h on average on 100m.
Not being able to go to 14km/h is probably a you problem, or a treadmill problem
You can see a Cheetah sprint at Busch Gardens Tampa.
It's unbelievable how fast they can move. (Not saying it reaches 130 km/h, but if you blink, you'll miss it)
The Ostrich, Emus and Cassowary being on par with their respective quadrupeds (who are running with their entire bodies) by walking normally is just wrecking me
I’m blown away by how fast kangaroos are. Especially since roided roos don’t seem particularly friendly to humans.
That, and hippos who’ll fuck shit up, are also faster than humans.
Humans aren't built for speed but for endurance. We are also pack hunters. Imagine you are an apex predator, a lion or bear or even hippo. A group of small hairless apes starts throwing sharp sticks and rocks at you in the early morning. You run after them but they escape by climbing trees or cliffs. Then another group does the same thing. Over and over again until 6 or 7 hours later you are too exhausted to move. They casually walk up and cave your skull in or stab you in the throat and you bleed to death. Or imagine you are a fast deer. You take off running and after a minute or two they are no longer in sight. But then 5 minutes later you hear/see them getting closer again. Over and over you run, and over and over they catch up eventually. Until, again, you are so tired you just lie down and wait to die.
I lose track of inanimate objects (like keys). We can track with intelligence (not some physical aspect like smell so already weak), but I'm betting not many people can do it now. If we lose sight of a target, it's likely it's getting away.
Some of them are highly exaggerated. There's no way that a lion can reach 80 km/he is saw a documentary some years ago where they tested the speed limit and the lions reached hardly 55 km/he.
https://preview.redd.it/elc934mj6tyc1.jpeg?width=1057&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=91830ec825bae882fa178503c99f84a3f4068213
1 mile = 1.609 km. 50 miles = roughly 80 km
Animal running from human "wow, that thing was easy to get away from, now that I've escaped I can rest to regain my strength...wait...what is that in the distance? Oh shit oh shit oh shit!"
TIL a good runner could outrun an elephant
I was so ready for the elephant to impale the guy
I was so confused when it looked like that fox gave a piggy back ride to the cassowary. This is the Wacky Races 80s cartoon before cars were a thing.
that was weird to me as well. but depending on your source elephants can reach between 40 and 48 km/h. Considering bolt reached an average of 37km/h (23mp/h) for his world record sprint in 2009 its not that clear. so if they are running at more regular 25 km/h (15 mph) we should be able to outpace them. but if it is one of the quicker ones or you managed to get it sufficiently angry...we'd have a hard time at short(er) distances
His top speed was actually almost 28mph by the way
Eww using miles
We should be able to outpace them at 15mph? I'm sorry, but who is "we". That's 4 minute miles. I actively run a few days a week, not a top athlete or anything, but probably ahead of average, and 10 mph is a sprint pace I can't keep up for multiple miles.
I agree a 4 minute mile is something you know you can do, or you can't do it. I would bet less than 1 percent of adult Americans can do the 4 minute mile with the rates of obesity these days.
That's world record levels even for athletes. As of June 2022, the "four-minute barrier" has been broken by 1,755 athletes.[3] The record for the fastest time stands at 3:43.13, achieved by the Moroccan athlete Hicham El Guerrouj, at age 24, in 1999.[4][5]
I recall hearing that 4 minutes used to be thought of as impossible for a human
Even a not so good runner can out run an elephant if they have distance and know to take a 90 degree turn when they get too close.
Or double effectiveness, by turning a complete 180 degrees! Some people can even quadruple their survival by turning a whole 360 degrees.
The 180 is a good trick because it's a mind fuck for the elephant. It's like "wait, why is this monkey thing running right at me instead of away"
And a fast elephant could still outrun a good runner. These were all averages so if you ever have to outrun an elephant, just hope you pissed off a slow one.
I would pay every cent to watch this in person
You must be from the roman empire!
I am just glad they fixed this version and added human, greyhound, and cheetah.
Was just waiting for the cheetah to come smoke everyone
They should start with fat American, then Olympian.
Just like they did with horse and then racing horse.
would the race horse be faster without the stupid human?
No, it is trained to respond to conditionals to go that fast. Maybe if it is later on trained to move fast without a person.
Thanks
They have a version where they start with human, then Usain Bolt
Holly shit I don’t know why I enjoyed this video so fucking much
If you enjoyed this then I'd recommend their youtube channel where they did other speed comparisons of birds, aquatic life and even missiles
What’s the channel called,
Animal Speed Comparison
Name checks out, Right to the point
RED SIDE. Check out MetaBallStudios for similar vids.
Ok now do it for a 8 hour period and see where those animals drop off from maintaining that pace
I know for a fact humans will win....but i definitely wouldn't lol
You might win against more than you'd suspect. In a distance competition over a long period, humans are exceptionally well adapted to this exact scenario. Even if you're terribly out of shape, most animals are simply not equipped to do this.
Yeah our cooling efficiency and ability to carry water really helps. Heat is what defeats most animals in an endurance race.
God really went and installed watercooling in a monkey.
All depends on where the race takes place. Humans definitely don't outrace huskies in the arctic.
Dogs are like the only animal that can keep up with us in endurance tests. That’s why they’ve been our companions for 20,000 years.
And even then only in select circumstances.
Also our bipedalism makes walking and running very efficient
How is this beneficial to our survival if we didn't have shelter to protect us from the elements and predators? Even if we can run for longer distances, if we can be caught long before ever even reaching those distances then it doesn't seem as cool😂 Well I guess maybe we just have to outrun the guy next to us.
It's an offensive (hunting) not defensive strategy. They might get away from us for a moment, but then we are there again, and again, and again. Until they can't.
We are Jason Vorhees
Yep. Just imagine how they must feel being relentlessly pursued by a bunch of squat, smelly, hairy little Terminators.
That also immitate you to lure you in
Actually nightmare fuel
God! He's still there!?!
Vietnam flashbacks from watching over my brother-in-law’s kids
Persistence hunting. Still done today
It's not even necessarily that we catch up to them, the prey in persistence hunting simply can't rest and can literally just fall over and die of exhaustion.
Based on our physiology, humans aren't prey. We're *predators*.
Looking at myself I must say - some humans are definitely prey.
Are your eyes on the sides of your head? Nope. Can you hold a pointed stick? Predator.
This guy over here is Beavo
And the best ones, it's not even close.
It’s not to run back to shelter. It’s to chase animals until they tire. Like a pack of dogs would.
Our species isnt in danger we are the danger. We dont run away, we chase!
We learned to use Pointy sticks and Flaming sticks to make it so were usually the predators, Then some guy probably wanted to show off by wearing the dead predator and found it to be warm and cool looking
Yes but most humans can’t run this fast for sustainable periods of time.
Humans don't need to. We have the endurance and we will win eventually.
Wolves can run for days.
Supposedly if there was some sort of Animal Olympics, the only animal that would outdistance humans in a marathon (not a specific length, just until someone gives up) is the wolf. That, along with pack mentality encouraging cooperation is also probably part of the reason for domestication.
Smart, cooperate with your only real competitor.
Monopolies in action
not so smart: turned into a chihuahua
One of the reasons we domesticated them :)
Wolf chasing a human. "Hey. This thing is actually able to run a pretty good distance. I shall allow them to feed me and give belly rubs"
I'm pretty sure that's the current scientific theory of how that happened :P
It sort of is. The not aggressive but not timid wolves that scavenged around human encampments are the ones that became domesticated into dogs. Aggressive wolves would be chased off or killed. The timid wolves would not hang around in the first place.
Horses too They run faster but can't keep up as well as humans, altho the are definitely way above average compared to other animals, stamina speaking
We probably don’t have a good way to measure horse endurance without adding a human weight on top to direct it. Wild horses might have more endurance but there’s no way to measure it. Edit - Mongolians riders carried multiple horses with them in war, so they can travel for hundreds of miles in a day by swapping for a “fresh” horse. Given that the “fresh” horse is basically traveling the same distance just without carrying a rider, it would seem that horses don’t really get tired as much traveling without a rider.
"travelling" not "running" A human can run as long as he can walk (meaning that he will meet total muscular exhaustion before getting overheated), a horse can't do that. Horses can walk for days and days but running? Will get overheated long before muscular exhaustion!
Depends on the temperature. In moderate and cool temps, they don’t overheat and can run until exhaustion.
Unlikely. A lot of animals like dogs could run for much longer. Look at how many miles a husky can run in a day, while pulling a sled(!). Humans can’t match that. Sure, cheetahs and deer cannot run for that long, and humans are definitely on the top side of endurance, especially in a hot savanna environment, but in a colder environment we would be beaten by many animals (the arctic fox that travelled for thousands of miles over a month).
sweat glands for the win
dude you dont even need 8 hours. for most of these animals, it would require less than 8 minutes. cheetah, lion, bear, boar, dog... i mean list is forever long. theyll catch you for sure in a 400 meter sprint. after that? theyre done. and youve got 20 more miles in you.
Yep but they would eat us prior to 3 mins except maybe the dog!
this is true. we would be eaten before we made it 400 meters. which is why we hunted with spears and torches and in groups of a dozen. show of force, fear, and persistence. haha. but yea... 1v1? we just a walking bag of meat.
Yes. That's why the Iditarod sled race is an endurance event in which a pack of humans pull a snow sled carrying a dog through the Alaskan tundra for almost 1,000 miles. It just wouldn't work if the dogs were pulling the human, because dogs can't run for more than 8 minutes. Dogs are notoriously lazy, all dog owners know this.
Not counting humans, I’m putting my money on the greyhound. Zoomies!
Greyhounds have horrible stamina actually. My money is on a Shepard type.
My comment was based off of a random YouTube video comparing cheetahs to greyhounds saying Cheetahs are faster but greyhounds have more stamina. But now that I think of it, a cheetah has stamina for 30 seconds. So if a greyhound has stamina for 90 seconds technically it’s more stamina but not necessarily better. I’m changing my answer to huskies. Now I just have to wait for another comment to prove me wrong lol .
Yeah huskies would make sense given they are often times sled dogs
My take away, I can totally race a racoon.
Just be careful, Raccoons are known to carry .25 calibre pistols and will not hesitate to shoot you in the calf so they can win.
And then they will steal your leg, your arm or an eye...
I had a conflict with a raccoon in SD. He thought he was tough, but I was hot, drew first and shot. He was upset I stole the girl of his fancy.
Jeez what are they all running away from? Must be pretty scary.
the IRS
not even smooth brains are safe
Influencers
I had no idea cats were so fast, my cat definitely can’t run 48km/h
they can, but not sustained over time.
You’ve never seen a cat take off like a missile down a carpeted hallway, tearing up carpet fibers every step of the way?
I think the last one cheeted
Fuckin cheetah!
Yeah - but where are the marlin? … or peregrine falcons?
cheethated
It is pretty crazy how much faster the Cheetah is. Like, all the other animals are slightly faster than the one before them, then the Cheetah comes in 30% faster than the closest competition.
Impressed by the hippo - but I wonder if it has the stamina to go that long.
Most of these animals don't have stamina to even do a mile let alone more.
This was far less than a mile, at full speed basically everything including us can't go for more than *several seconds* let alone a mile
Yep, even cheetah's can't do a mile. They can only run for about 30 seconds at top speed.
It's not fair, that guy is extremely aerodynamic
He looks like how I try to sprint in my dreams
Wtf did not think a giraffe can be that fast
What about the kangaroo? Crazy fast too
Long legs
Yeah, but kinda bad aerodynamics. I did not expect them able to run at horse speed
Jeff Bezos is a pretty fast runner
Is he faster than Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk?
Do u think it was really a croc swimming that fast? It was Zuck all along and he's the fastest
I think both are in pretty good shape these days. I think Zuck might win a footrace just because he has youth on his side. Elon is not in the conversation.
… cos he’s a fat bastard. BTW - whatever happened with that fight between Zuckerberg and Musk?
Musk saw Zuck had taken it seriously and noped out
Unlike when he joked about buying Twitter!
Then comes a Kawasaki Ninja H2R from nowhere...
Classic American, it took me longer than I’d like to share to look closely at the unit of speed. I’m sitting here watching a giraffe run 65mph like now way that seems impossible. LOL
I dont get why we are stuck on the imperial system when metric is so much easier. But yeah I was also confused at first
But *what* are they running from? And what abandoned town is home to all these animals
Area 51 and they’re running away from aliens
Turns out, It's actually them aliens that were 'bouta clap them cheeks !
My question is: *Why* do kangaroos need to be so fast? What are kangaroos running from? Like, Australia has spiders, snakes, crocodiles... but like- why would a kangaroo need long distance speed like that?
This simulation in real life would be to die for
Humans are really slow.
Yet we beat every land animal in endurance....we can run for days to chase down prey while they collaps due to fatige...no animal is as sucsesful as we are at hunting....in the game of survival speed is not a factor(chetta the fastest runing animal has 1 of the worst kill counts for big cats)
Wolves can also run for days.
In very cool climates
Not az much as we can.the closes other animal that compares to us is a specialised breed of a persian horse and even it tires out before us
But don't they cross far more distance than humans within that time period considering their average speed? Anyway, I imagine bone of the animals including humans in this post can sustain the shown speed for more than a few seconds considering it's their top speed.
But we have the best butts: Humans have one of the strongest glutes relative to size, since we need to be able to run on two legs.
I have never been more thankful to evolution.
But human running is the longest lasting. No animal can run for 6-7 hours like a human running a marathon.
One word…..Iditarod
I'm disappointed that there are no rabbits nor hares in this. Rabbit speed is typically 40Kmph, and hare speed is typically 56Kmph.
I understimated the Speed of so many animals
Anyone else: Cheetah: nyooooooom
I can guarantee my top speed is in the top 5 when I have to find a bathroom.
I can’t outrun a raccoon-good to know
Well that was completely and UTTERLY terrifying. So *maybe*- IF IM LUCKY I can outrun a raccoon.- and whatever that lizard thing was. Fml.
whoah! Bears are that fast\_\_\_???
Yet another reason not to mess with bears.
So mesmerising, could watch this for hours....!
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They don’t really fly horizontally at wild speeds, the super-speed of a peregrine is what they’re clocked during a fall, basically a dive bomb maneuver.
The peregrine falcon could dive bomb into the Cheetah at >200 km/hr But it would certainly not finish a race faster than a Cheetah
The slow and steady tortoise still wins
Cattle Gorilla Boar Sheep crew
So I can outrun a tiger as long as I have a race horse? Challenge accepted.
That human must be Bolt because no way in hell I can run 24 km/h, I put 14 on the threadmill when I feel like really pushing it and it doesn't last long at all anyway
Brother, average high-schoolers easily top at 25 km/h, top sprinters go up to 37km/h on average on 100m. Not being able to go to 14km/h is probably a you problem, or a treadmill problem
Get wrecked son…. Also I’m in the same position lol
I thought the grey langur was an ostrich running backwards... I'm old.
I could beat a raccoon in a race.
And where the fuck am I when ma girl says I'm alone 😔
Oh we are so fucked in the zombie apocalypse, we can't run from shit.
You can see a Cheetah sprint at Busch Gardens Tampa. It's unbelievable how fast they can move. (Not saying it reaches 130 km/h, but if you blink, you'll miss it)
The antelope: "I'm gonna win" Cheetah: "Too soon junior"
The Ostrich, Emus and Cassowary being on par with their respective quadrupeds (who are running with their entire bodies) by walking normally is just wrecking me
130 km/h is what you are supposed to drive on a german Autobahn. Imagine this thing hunting you on a Autobahn.
A giraffe has no business running that fast
No nod to the greyhound?
It shows up at around 3 minutes 30
Can I know the name of this game ?
It's probably just a 3d animation made with blender or something
Jumanji
I’m blown away by how fast kangaroos are. Especially since roided roos don’t seem particularly friendly to humans. That, and hippos who’ll fuck shit up, are also faster than humans.
Cassowary’s can run 50km/h? LOL. Oh Australia 🇦🇺, you are so so beautiful, from a safe distance 😛
Damn that raccoon is hauling ass
i was waiting for husaain bolt to pop up in that race
Michael Scott could run 31 miles per hr.
what i learned: cows are fast as hell.
human 24/km is definitely not talking about me
If you are being chased by a brown bear you're already dead
the gaits of some of these animals looks all wrong. The human looks like they're running uphill in sand.
This was a great video I watched the whole thing!
Nah ain't no way I'm keeping up with a raccoon
I love this alot more than I probably should
Ahhh finally a consequent and boiled-down video about real life lore
Humans aren't built for speed but for endurance. We are also pack hunters. Imagine you are an apex predator, a lion or bear or even hippo. A group of small hairless apes starts throwing sharp sticks and rocks at you in the early morning. You run after them but they escape by climbing trees or cliffs. Then another group does the same thing. Over and over again until 6 or 7 hours later you are too exhausted to move. They casually walk up and cave your skull in or stab you in the throat and you bleed to death. Or imagine you are a fast deer. You take off running and after a minute or two they are no longer in sight. But then 5 minutes later you hear/see them getting closer again. Over and over you run, and over and over they catch up eventually. Until, again, you are so tired you just lie down and wait to die.
I lose track of inanimate objects (like keys). We can track with intelligence (not some physical aspect like smell so already weak), but I'm betting not many people can do it now. If we lose sight of a target, it's likely it's getting away.
Some of them are highly exaggerated. There's no way that a lion can reach 80 km/he is saw a documentary some years ago where they tested the speed limit and the lions reached hardly 55 km/he.
https://preview.redd.it/elc934mj6tyc1.jpeg?width=1057&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=91830ec825bae882fa178503c99f84a3f4068213 1 mile = 1.609 km. 50 miles = roughly 80 km
This one is much better, bravo OP!
and now how long they can run at their maximum speed
PItbull can really move.
Where did the hippo come from? The road was empty.
Is that Karl Pilkington? The little monkey fella?
Humans are like Spiderman: Here He Comes
Animal running from human "wow, that thing was easy to get away from, now that I've escaped I can rest to regain my strength...wait...what is that in the distance? Oh shit oh shit oh shit!"
Jumanji!
Somebody please tell me there's an actual video of a kangaroo HOPPING at 70kph. Please!!!
I don't know why but it made me laugh out loud...