Not only that, but we can also have someone throw a "rock" 90 miles per hour for years, destroy it, get another human to perform elbow surgery, and do it again at an improved level for a few more years.
Those aren't throwing, though. You are correct about the accuracy, but there are fewer variables for the cobra and fish as the liquid stream they spit is effectively constant mass. (Idk what you mean about octopuses).
I recently learned that octopuses can squirt water in the air in a jet. There was a video where some guys dog was going after a beached octopus, and it kept squirting water at the dogs face.
Speak for yourself. Whenever I try to throw anything even a lil bit heavy I look like I am trying to cut my arm off with centrifugal force. I am a menace to society when I throw stuff
Watch professional darts players for your mind to be blown. If you don't know darts it's an unbelievably hard sport. They make it look like it's so easy.
I once saw a documentary on youtube about a hunter-gatherer tribe in Africa. They were following some gazelle-like prey based on the traces on the terrain. They ended up finding him and chasing him. The gazelle was of course much faster then the people. But they kept following the traces for 8 hours, walking for most of the time. At the end of the day, they found the gazelle on the ground, absolutely exhausted and therefore unable to flee, so they were able to kill him (in a very humane, respectful way). The whole village was fed. That is literally how humans have been hunting for thousands of years, I think it’s the most “fair” way of hunting for humans, no weapons (apart from the very final killing), just pure endurance and a lot of patience. It was extremely fascinating to see how we are literally designed to walk for a long time.
It’s not just the ability to walk for eight hours, it’s the fact that it’s efficient for us on a caloric expenditure level. You see all the time in nature docs about how risky it is for a predator to chase down a prey at full speed because it uses up valuable energy. Humans sacrificed speed for efficiency. Oh and traps, we’re really good at building things.
It's also why wolves are so efficient when hunting in packs. They're capable running high speeds for really extended periods of time and their numbers to just exhaust prey. While brutal, the natural world is just really fascinating.
Feces is more of a general deterrent in its thrown direction, darts require a bit more accuracy, though I would still rather not be within throwing range of a gorilla with a handful of darts
This is literally one of the basis on how humans was able to evolve to the point we are apex of the apex on the food chain haha. Basically if u look at apes/primates in the scale of the animal kingdom we are by no means the strongest or the fastest. But because we evolved to the point where we can walk on 2 legs (aka energy conservation) and add in our brain to body mass ratio plus thumbs (aka able to track and use tools) we were able to hunt from distance and basically tire out the animal to the point where we can easily kill it. We literally walked our prey down hahaha, how G is that!!
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u/Fast_Garlic_5639 6d ago
The one athletic thing humans are stupidly good at- just kinda going at a brisk pace and not stopping