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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Like in all of Biology it comes down to evolution.
There’s video of a bobcat on here somewhere about a bobcat who encounters a rattle snake and is quick enough to smack the snake on its head every time the snake strikes until the cold blooded snake is exhausted. The warm blooded cat still has plenty of energy reserves and kills the snake for lunch. The cat has those super fast reflexes because they are required for its survival.
Our human ancestors took a very different path through evolution. We started out as small upright walking apes and evolved to an apex predator in Africa, not with lightning fast reflexes, but with teamwork and relentless pursuit. Humans can run an antelope to near death by hyperthermia and do it in with weapons by teaming up to run it in circles. We don’t need cat like reflexes, we have a very much more robust biological toolkit than that.
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