Horses sweat? Huh.
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Jankatarch@lemmy.world 1 day agoFunny enough there is another animal I know that can sweat, have more endurance than humans, and much faster than humans. Horses.
Imagine you fear getting caught by a horse or a human and then suddenly a human riding a horse shows up.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 hours ago
sprite0@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
humans can beat a horse in a marathon!
en.m.wikipedia.org/…/Man_versus_Horse_Marathon
Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
That’s pretty cool. However, no human has ever won by more than 15min, and every horse has a 15min delay built into their times. So even the biggest winning margin of nearly 11 minutes would have lost to the horse if they had started at the same time.
jboy@lemmy.sdf.org 56 minutes ago
The Western States trail in the California Sierras used to be where a 100-mile horse race took place that horse and rider had to complete in 24 hours. At some point in the 1970s one of the riders decided not to take a horse, and he finished in 23 hours on foot. Now it’s an annual footrace that the winner finishes in about 14 hours.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
The horses also all had humans on their backs. To my knowledge, none of the humans had horses on their backs.
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 15 hours ago
For it to be scientifically accurate of a comparison, the ratio of weight:human needs to be equal to that of rider:horse.
In case my phrasing is confusing, to illustrate what I mean here is an example: a 200lb horse carrying a 100lb human is equivalent to a 100lb human carrying a 50lb weight.
leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 13 hours ago
Also in very short races (up to 100m) if the human is an olympic athlete, though mostly because momentum is a bitch and it takes time for the horse to accelerate all that mass, and by the time it’s done the race is already over (it also probably helps that the athlete knows what they’re doing while the house is just along for the ride and wondering where it can get some grass).