Just so ya know, a regular modern day crocodile can also outrun you on land.
GRIZZLODILE
Submitted 6 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 months ago
thann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Yeah, but only because I’m American
Dicska@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yeah but I would easily beat him in hurdles.
Agent641@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Don’t even get me started on the pole vault
BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 6 months ago
Fun fact, the reason dragons appear in literally every culture that developed language came from people surviving horrific encounters with enormous crocodiles.
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Wow, that is fun!
Uruanna@lemmy.world 6 months ago
But is that a fact
(it’s not)
Agent641@lemmy.world 6 months ago
A mighty steed!
You cannot prove that humans didn’t ride these into battle.
Tyfud@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Alligators can already outrun a person on land.
They just choose not to. Because they’re lazy and they don’t like running after their prey.
I suspect the same was probably true of whatever it was we killed off back then too.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Flat solid land? Nah, person wins on any distance over a few feet.
Through brush and marsh? Nobody beats the gator.
Tyfud@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That’s not true. And another one.
TL;DR;
They can run up to 35mph over short (20-30ft) distances. Then they can run at a slightly slower (though faster than most humans) pace for a sustained period of roughly 100 feet (30ish meters for the non-'mericans).
In every scenario they can and will catch every human on earth except an Olympic sprinter. And even then, it wouldn’t be a comfortable race for them.
The reason they don’t chase you down and eat you on land, is because they’ve evolved to be ambush predators from water transitions to land. They are lazy. Simple as that. And their food comes to them in most cases. Why would they want to spend all those calories just to maybe get a un-tasty human? They conserve energy so they can perform several ambush attempts for prey, rather than one long chase.
In the end, their current approach gets them more calories for the efforts, which is why they’ve evolved that way.
But they can, on paper, absolutely wipe the floor with you in a sprint over solid, flat land. For 100 feet.
pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 6 months ago
Not a lot of people can run 11mph for any distance, though.
expatriado@lemmy.world 6 months ago
hairy cocodrile? artistic liberty?
lunarul@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Looks like they photoshopped a crocodile onto a bear
expatriado@lemmy.world 6 months ago
lol, i wasn’t paying attention clearly
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Gee, I wonder why those died out.
LesserAbe@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yeah, who are they calling apex predator, take a look around.
pdxfed@lemmy.world 6 months ago
More like ape-ex amirite
UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Can I pet that dawgg???
DwjsrIyx@lemmynsfw.com 6 months ago
Yes but only once
MagicShel@programming.dev 6 months ago
Sure, li’l buddy! He’s coming quick, so I’m just going to run over there to take a picture.
TriPolarBearz@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yes, first you pet them on the outside, then you pet them on the inside.
Zip2@feddit.uk 6 months ago
Steve Irwin would still have fed them.
blackwateropeth@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Oh shit, sadam is that you?
dumbass@leminal.space 6 months ago
Nah, just one if his body doubles.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 months ago
Crocodoggo! 😍
Elgenzay@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinkana
Of course they lived in Australia
Num10ck@lemmy.world 6 months ago
how is that not a dragon?
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 6 months ago
All those “dragon types” charts you see call this a drake. I don’t really get that because drakes are ducks.
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 6 months ago
But according to those charts, ducks are wyverns…
penguinsAreRapists@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I miss r/hybrid animals
fossilesque@mander.xyz 6 months ago
Be the change you want to see.
penguinsAreRapists@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I can barely take care of myself
g_g@hexbear.net 6 months ago
it looks so cute tho
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 6 months ago
invents bazooka
saltesc@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Not to alarm anyone, but unless you’re doing the 100m in around 11s or less, current large crocodiles are still faster than you. But if you’re fit enough to keep the speed going, you should outlast them over short enough distance.
And if you can’t do any of that, well you’ll have to run lateral to it and hope your agility out maneouvers them.
Artyom@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Mythbusters tested whether it was better to zig zag or run straight away from a gator. Turns out, it doesn’t matter, gators won’t chase you.
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 6 months ago
They’ve spent hundreds of millions of years sitting in lakes waiting for food to step in their mouths. They deserve to be called sloths more than actual sloths.
Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Did they test it on alligators or really hungry alligators?
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 6 months ago
Or that you have the adequate weapons on you, the knowledge and physical ability to use them properly.
SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
chootem inna hed nah boah!
misterundercoat@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Serpentine!