Dogs are one of those specific animals. There’s a reason they got domesticated into dogs in the first place - because they’re the closest to be able to keep up with a hairless monkey at running after an injured animal.
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AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Btw this would be physically impossible for it right? Even half marathons are something thay basically only a very few specific animals can do right?
rockerface@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Yeah i see from the other comments as well. Now that you point it put its logical that humans would pick wolves/dogs, the only animals that could keep up.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Our 10lbs dog can come on 25km walks/hikes with us and wants to continue so a larger dog like that following humans at what isn’t running running speed for a dog that large? As long as water was available and temperature wasn’t too high, I would believe it…
I just did a web search and people do it with their dog, even smaller breeds…
Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com 4 weeks ago
Wolves are the most prolific persistence hunters. It’s like there whole thing
ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Where whole thing?
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Werewolf thing!
Gladaed@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
It is certainly on the upper end of what dogs can do without inflicting harm on their body, but a one off doesn’t have to be harmless.
LambeauLeap@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Nah dogs have mad endurance too. My dog comes mountain biking with me and runs 20 miles, I have a friend that rode 40 miles with his border Collie following. I have another friend that studies mountain lions and hikes with a rat terrier trained to sniff out scat and they do about 15-20 miles/day
Dogs have been hunting partners for humans for likely tens of thousands of years. They should have comparable endurance…they go wherever we go
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
They have good enough endurance for the hunts they’d be involved with us for, but we are almost uniquely suited for endurance in the animal kingdom.
Becoming terminators is maybe the real thing that launched our ancestors.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Some older dogs - well, at least one good boi I met by a stunning lake - will run and run and run to the point they can barely walk the following days. Dog sooo wanted to fetch this stick so owner has to ask:
Can take his youth… not his drive!