– Why are animals much more stronger proportionally to humans.. eg. How are horses capable of running for hours on end and oxen can pull cars like it’s nothing

Question

How come bears, tigers, even apes are naturally so powerful… And why are humans so weak in comparison

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Answer 1

How come ants, small cats and rats are naturally so weak… And why are humans so strong in comparison?

The simple answer is that you picked the stronger animals and never looked at the weaker ones. That question “why” is now moot.

It’s called “survivorship bias”.

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Anyways, “weaker” animals outnumbers the “stronger” animals.

Even taking into account “proportional” your focus is on a certain weird things that the animals are REALLY good at. Elephant is strong in absolute term, but they can “carry” 25% their body weight. Humans can do much more. There’s no way to compare animals apple-to-apple.