How come bears, tigers, even apes are naturally so powerful… And why are humans so weak in comparison
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Humans can run for hours on end. Marathon runners, over the long term, can outrun horses.
And the thing about proportional is… that’s not always the case. Compared to body weight, an ox isn’t really all that much stronger than a human. Have you never seen someone push a car in neutral? It doesn’t take very much strength.
You’re picking a few specific examples of especially exceptional animals. Humans are faster than sloths, stronger than slugs, we’re better than a ton of animals. For pretty much any metric you can find a specialized animal better at that thing than humans are, but you can also find a ton more that are worse.
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