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First panel: [blank white space with black text] Jogging from the perspective of animals

Second panel: Wolf by a tree looking at a man jogging. “What are you running from, apex predator”

Third panel: Wolf: “Are you chasing prey?” “You need to conserve energy”

Last panel: [second wolf peeking in] “The hell is that guy doing” [first wolf] “I don’t know. I don’t understand”

(alt text by @[email protected])

  • schmidtster@lemmy.world
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    8 个月前

    Do wolves not chase each other while playing? It’s not exactly doing it for exercise, but they should understand the concept… maybe.

      • smeg@feddit.uk
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        8 个月前

        OP: of course an animal would find a human running with neither predator nor prey to be simply ludicrous!

        Dog: I like running

          • cannache@slrpnk.net
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            8 个月前

            Yes. Horses, dogs/wolves and people are the three land animals that are really weird in that they aren’t necessarily apex predators, but due to circumstance or evolution we’ve somehow stepped outside the natural flow which has resulted in us having a wide potential of diet, excess time and energy to spare due to lack of serious predators (yet) and luckily enough we’ve come to be more collaborative than competitive when it counts

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      8 个月前

      Wolves who are “pets*” are also absolutely manic in comparison to normal dogs. Our lifestyle just drives everything to mindless activity to get it out.

      (*: A wolf is not a pet even when they are very cute)