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.
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.
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.
the question is though, do they qualify for gluttony? on one hand they eat entire deer in one sitting, but on the other hand they do that like once a week.
Did they test it on alligators or really hungry alligators?
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Dude you’re completely totally wrong about Pandas.
Pandas only have fertility issues in captivity. Everything you described just now ONLY applies to pandas living in captivity
They do just fine in the wild. At least, they
The reason for their falling population numbers is their loss of habitat.
And if I remember correctly they have one cub every two years, overall low rate of reproduction but that has more reproductive strategy than anything else.
Suffice to say: pandas reproduce much more successfully in the wild than previously thought
Some Floridaman has. Apparently their jaws are really good for chomping down, but not that great for opening back up. So, you belly flop on the thing from behind, and it can’t really do a thing to you while you take some shoelaces and tie the gator’s jaws shut. At that point you can transfer the gator to a different swamp that isn’t inhabited by Floridaman. At least that’s the best description I have, of the technique I watched the guy use.
Or that you have the adequate weapons on you, the knowledge and physical ability to use them properly.
chootem inna hed nah boa!
Serpentine!
Just so ya know, a regular modern day crocodile can also outrun you on land.
Yeah, but only because I’m American
Yeah but I would easily beat him in hurdles.
This is true. Or running serpentine:
“He only has a brain the size of a walnut.”
What this from?
Should be Land of the Lost (2009) if Reverse Image Search isn’t failing me.
Don’t even get me started on the pole vault
A mighty steed!
You cannot prove that humans didn’t ride these into battle.
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Flat solid land? Nah, person wins on any distance over a few feet.
Through brush and marsh? Nobody beats the gator.
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You should try reading your source…
“Experts say the American alligator’s top running speed clocks in at 11mph.”
I a fat outta shape slouch, but I think in a life or death situation I could manage 11mph for a few minutes.
Sure they can burst a good bit of speed, but that 20-30 ft sprint mostly comes from them lunging with all 4 legs and their tail as hard as they can and then maybe 1 or 2 more lunges and some scrabbling.
It’s mainly a matter of weight and gait. They got stubby little side protruding legs and they weight a ton incomparison to their leg musculature. They can high walk for a good distance, and they can gallop, but only for a few steps.
Usain Bolt’s fastest recorded speed is 27.79 mph.
Unless you can dust the fastest man on Earth in a footrace, you’re gonna be a snack.
Yeah, humans are pretty slow compared to most animals. We’re good at long distance running, but nearly every animal out sprints us. I’m sure most of us have tried to catch an animal before. I think the only ones I’ve actually caught are turtles on land and snakes, which weren’t trying to run.
Not a lot of people can run 11mph for any distance, though.
They can only do that for about half of one body length though. It’s not really a run, so much as a spring forward to surprise something with their murder mouth, and then pull it back into the water.
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No, that’s 30mph that they can only do for a few feet.
Fun fact, the reason dragons appear in literally every culture that developed language came from people surviving horrific encounters with enormous crocodiles.
Wow, that is fun!
But is that a fact
(it’s not)
hairy crocodile? artistic liberty?
Looks like they photoshopped a crocodile onto a bear
lol, i wasn’t paying attention clearly
Gee, I wonder why those died out.
Yeah, who are they calling apex predator, take a look around.
More like ape-ex amirite
They failed at Fetch.
I bet there were humans trying to fuck them.
Can I pet that dawgg???
Yes but only once
Sure, li’l buddy! He’s coming quick, so I’m just going to run over there to take a picture.
Yes, first you pet them on the outside, then you pet them on the inside.
Steve Irwin would still have fed them.
Crocodoggo! 😍
Oh shit, sadam is that you?
Nah, just one if his body doubles.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinkana
Of course they lived in Australia
how is that not a dragon?
All those “dragon types” charts you see call this a drake. I don’t really get that because drakes are ducks.
But according to those charts, ducks are wyverns…
I miss r/hybrid animals
Be the change you want to see.
I can barely take care of myself
it looks so cute tho
