I’ve seen so many videos where animals have(seemingly) instant reaction time and can escape fast from predators, how is it possible and why humans don’t have same reaction time?
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We’re apex predators, we don’t really require it.
They have spend millions of years of evolution only surviving if they react quickly.
We’ve spent at least the last few hundred thousand years BEING the thing that hunts them (with traps, intellect, co-operation and tools which negate the need for quick reactions).
Increasingly even our own reactions aren’t needing to be fast to catch those animals (e.g. unlike a cat, which still needs to be fast to catch its prey).
If a human is slower, it won’t go hungry and chances are it still won’t succumb to a predator.
If an animal is slower, it won’t have to worry about catching its next meal ever again.
Hell, we were hunting mammoth to extinction a thousand generations (of many animals) ago.
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