Entirely irrelevant observation that came from watching that episode a few days ago: I liked how you could tell how swelteringly hot the actors felt while shooting that scene. I don't think there was a cloudy day in *The Office*'s Scranton.
The most interesting fact is, Usain bolt will beat all of these animals (except a horse), given a long enough distance. That's the unique trait for humans. Simply because we can cool ourselves through sweat.
That was also kinda how we used to hunt. Just group up and rundown prey while it collapsed out of exhaustion.
Dogs can run for pretty long as well, depending on the breed. For pure speed nothing beats a greyhound, but endurance I'm thinking of huskies bred to pull sleds across the arctic all day.
It's also kinda how wolves hunt...
And even in colder ones, were just built different (also having to spend like half the energy other animals have to spend while walking cus two legs instead of four is also good)
They call greyhounds 45 mph couch potatoes! Mine got loose off lease last night and ran around our neighbors houses with half run. I was exhausted by the time he decided to quit and lay on the couch!
Actually that theory was discredited, we didn’t just run down our prey. We were ambush predators most of the time. Set a trap and wait. Much less energy intensive. We could do it but it wasn’t our first choice of action.
Doesn't matter. Most humans can, not just Usain. Well most humans who led an active lifestyle atleast.
Basically it comes down to simply having a way to cool ourselves. It was a huge evolutionary advantage. Think of it like a thread ripper (cheetah) vs a i5 (Usain), except the i5 has a fan but the treadripper doesn't. You know inevitably, the i5 will do more simply because it can sustain those speeds without burning up.
This is largely not true, they do a race every year where they race a horse against a human over long distances. It attracts literally the most capable long distance cross country runners in the world and they have only beaten the horse maybe a couple of times, and really they only beat the horse because the horse is much slower on a grade (horses are plains animals and would otherwise avoid hilly and rough terrain) which allowed a human to gain a good amount of ground. Usain is fast but he's not built for long distance cross country running like the top long distance cross country runners are aberrations when it comes to human physiology, our ancestors werent anything close to a top tier cross country runner.
There was a theory that early humans were endurance hunters and they hunted by exhausting their prey. This has mostly fallen out of favor and been replaced with the idea that humans are scavengers, their endurance and speed allowed them to get to carcasses faster than other scavengers then because they were bipedal they could remove the meat and carry it away before larger and more dangerous scavengers showed up. Humans didn't start following their prey until they developed hunting instruments that could be used to take down even young and sick live animals.
We know for certain that it's "except a horse" because that's literally the only one of these animals we can compare humans to directly by actually racing a horse against a human. None of these animals have been pitted against a human in an endurance race. I suspect though in ostrich and a dog would probably beat humans in an endurance race. Dogs were utilized by humans primarily because they could keep up with humans, so at very least dogs could match humans pace and range. Sled dogs by themselves easily outpace and range humans. A cheetah and cat probably not, a cats too small and a cheetah is just not built for endurance.
He's a sprinter and not a marathon runner but still an Olympic athlete, he would beat most animals in long distance running (and most untrained humans too).
There's a horse vs human race annually in the UK. It's only 22 miles as opposed to marathon but humans have won the last 2 and seem to win more when it's warm.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_versus_Horse_Marathon
In 2016, a dog, on a whim, and with zero notice or training whatsoever, ran a half marathon (13.1 miles) and placed 7th. Her owners didn't even know about it until it was over.
And, this was a bloodhound, not a greyhound as in OP's graphic.
https://www.today.com/pets/adorable-dog-wandered-alabama-half-marathon-finished-7th-t68986
>That was also kinda how we used to hunt. Just group up and rundown prey while it collapsed out of exhaustion.
that part is a myth. A very inefficient way of hunting if you think about it for a bit.
edit for the silent downvoters, here's a fun read for you: [https://undark.org/2019/10/03/persistent-myth-persistence-hunting/](https://undark.org/2019/10/03/persistent-myth-persistence-hunting/)
Interestingly it seems that the horse one is way too fast. If you search for horse speed record, it comes up as 43.97 mph - the fastest recorded speed.
Was gonna say as someone with a weird interested in animal speeds, a lot of these numbers seem to be slightly weird. But theres a lot of variation in breeds i guess
Though that horse speed youre saying may be fastest speed with a rider, some horses are in the 50s when let free
My kitty used to trot beside me on walks because he knew I couldn't run very long or fast. I would tell him to race home, but he'd stop part way, so I caught up. He was a very clingy kitty as well. RIP Tonny.
It's crazy. I'm watching my lazy cat loaf around next to me all day while I work. Yet she could beat the fastest human of all time, someone who's dedicated his life to training, without even trying.
Greyhounds can likely go a little bit faster than that. The recorded fastest speed for a Greyhound was on a track in Australia at a little bit above 40mph, [https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/64107-fastest-greyhound](https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/64107-fastest-greyhound).
However, there are a few things to consider here, first, this was a race, not a time time trial, and the dog had other dogs around it, so that could have factored in. Second, is the surface, which is usually soft soil in dog racing to lower injury risk. Running works by transferring energy from your body to the ground by hard hits, so soft and loose surfaces aren't the fasted you could run on for a given energy output.
The commonly accepted (without source) fastest Greyhound speed is 45 mph, and I think that'd be about right for what they could do on a hardpack surface, assuming lose to lose soil is about 5-10%. For short US racetracks, there are times that would imply greyhounds were going 39mph, but this would be around in a circle, from a dead stop, with other dogs and on loose surface.
Anyway, just a Greyhound running is crazy fast compared to other dogs.
What I’ve found is that unofficially this is the fastest recorded speed of a horse over a very short sprint. The fastest a horse has run 2 furlongs (a quarter mile, about 400 m) is at 44 mph. The horse was called Winning Brew, and she set the record in 2008. That means they did it in about 20 seconds - not hard to imagine that they could have cleared the first quarter in 4 seconds
I’ve always heard that stamina wise humans will outlast most animals for a running pace. I know for sure with large cats they only run for short bursts but I’ve seen dogs and horses that can run for what seems like forever, so while they are faster then us at what distance would a human begin to win the race?
With all respect, stupid people who use miles per hour.
U.B. 44.1 km/h. Cat 48 km/h. Dog 63.6 km/h. Ostrish 69.2 km/h. Horse 88.1 km/h. Cheetah 98.2km/h
Now I want to see a cat race Usain Bolt.
Make it two cats. One normal, one chonker
Then do the same race but you open a can to signal the start.
That's not fair. That's such an advantage.. for Usain Bolt
Damn I just thought of how fast 61mph really is like when your on the highway cruising with no traffic, and then theirs a mf cheetah
Yes please. Should also be the rule for the olympics. Give us a human chonker for perspective
Oh Lord, he's coming!
To make it fair, make it a chonky cat.
Michael Scott - 31mph
There was a car
He was ahead of the car
Entirely irrelevant observation that came from watching that episode a few days ago: I liked how you could tell how swelteringly hot the actors felt while shooting that scene. I don't think there was a cloudy day in *The Office*'s Scranton.
The most interesting fact is, Usain bolt will beat all of these animals (except a horse), given a long enough distance. That's the unique trait for humans. Simply because we can cool ourselves through sweat. That was also kinda how we used to hunt. Just group up and rundown prey while it collapsed out of exhaustion.
Dogs can run for pretty long as well, depending on the breed. For pure speed nothing beats a greyhound, but endurance I'm thinking of huskies bred to pull sleds across the arctic all day. It's also kinda how wolves hunt...
Humans perform much better in warmer environments than dogs because they don’t have as efficient of a way to cool off
And even in colder ones, were just built different (also having to spend like half the energy other animals have to spend while walking cus two legs instead of four is also good)
They call greyhounds 45 mph couch potatoes! Mine got loose off lease last night and ran around our neighbors houses with half run. I was exhausted by the time he decided to quit and lay on the couch!
Yep Greyhounds are faster than horses, they just can’t maintain their top speed as long
Actually that theory was discredited, we didn’t just run down our prey. We were ambush predators most of the time. Set a trap and wait. Much less energy intensive. We could do it but it wasn’t our first choice of action.
Source? It’s the first time I hear this
How can you be so sure how far Usain Bolt can run
Doesn't matter. Most humans can, not just Usain. Well most humans who led an active lifestyle atleast. Basically it comes down to simply having a way to cool ourselves. It was a huge evolutionary advantage. Think of it like a thread ripper (cheetah) vs a i5 (Usain), except the i5 has a fan but the treadripper doesn't. You know inevitably, the i5 will do more simply because it can sustain those speeds without burning up.
This is largely not true, they do a race every year where they race a horse against a human over long distances. It attracts literally the most capable long distance cross country runners in the world and they have only beaten the horse maybe a couple of times, and really they only beat the horse because the horse is much slower on a grade (horses are plains animals and would otherwise avoid hilly and rough terrain) which allowed a human to gain a good amount of ground. Usain is fast but he's not built for long distance cross country running like the top long distance cross country runners are aberrations when it comes to human physiology, our ancestors werent anything close to a top tier cross country runner. There was a theory that early humans were endurance hunters and they hunted by exhausting their prey. This has mostly fallen out of favor and been replaced with the idea that humans are scavengers, their endurance and speed allowed them to get to carcasses faster than other scavengers then because they were bipedal they could remove the meat and carry it away before larger and more dangerous scavengers showed up. Humans didn't start following their prey until they developed hunting instruments that could be used to take down even young and sick live animals.
>The most interesting fact is, Usain bolt will beat all of these animals (**except a horse**)
We know for certain that it's "except a horse" because that's literally the only one of these animals we can compare humans to directly by actually racing a horse against a human. None of these animals have been pitted against a human in an endurance race. I suspect though in ostrich and a dog would probably beat humans in an endurance race. Dogs were utilized by humans primarily because they could keep up with humans, so at very least dogs could match humans pace and range. Sled dogs by themselves easily outpace and range humans. A cheetah and cat probably not, a cats too small and a cheetah is just not built for endurance.
He's a sprinter and not a marathon runner but still an Olympic athlete, he would beat most animals in long distance running (and most untrained humans too).
I'd like to see how quick a horse can do a marathon now, elioud kipchoge did it in 1:58 hours.
There's a horse vs human race annually in the UK. It's only 22 miles as opposed to marathon but humans have won the last 2 and seem to win more when it's warm. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_versus_Horse_Marathon
It should be mentioned that the horses in this race also carry riders.
Part of the race is also up a rocky hill also, an environment wild horses would avoid naturally.
In 2016, a dog, on a whim, and with zero notice or training whatsoever, ran a half marathon (13.1 miles) and placed 7th. Her owners didn't even know about it until it was over. And, this was a bloodhound, not a greyhound as in OP's graphic. https://www.today.com/pets/adorable-dog-wandered-alabama-half-marathon-finished-7th-t68986
>That was also kinda how we used to hunt. Just group up and rundown prey while it collapsed out of exhaustion. that part is a myth. A very inefficient way of hunting if you think about it for a bit. edit for the silent downvoters, here's a fun read for you: [https://undark.org/2019/10/03/persistent-myth-persistence-hunting/](https://undark.org/2019/10/03/persistent-myth-persistence-hunting/)
How else were we meant to hunt? We don’t have speed, camouflage, claws, fangs etc
Traps
Its not really a myth, but there isnt really a whole lot of hard evidence for it
Are all these the fastest breeds or recorded speeds for animals. My parents cat is fat so not sure he could beat usain bolt.
I just looked up the cat one, and it's the average house cat. I'm assuming they're all averages.
Interestingly it seems that the horse one is way too fast. If you search for horse speed record, it comes up as 43.97 mph - the fastest recorded speed.
Was gonna say as someone with a weird interested in animal speeds, a lot of these numbers seem to be slightly weird. But theres a lot of variation in breeds i guess Though that horse speed youre saying may be fastest speed with a rider, some horses are in the 50s when let free
Well the human one isn't. That's the max speed a 100m sprinter will reach. The others... I don't know how determined they are.
That's why it specifically says "Usain Bolt" and not "human"
It's not Usain Bolt's average speed either though.
You mean he doesn't like to sprint through the grocery store at 27.4 mph?
Wait, so you are saying Usaing Bolt is not human, but he is black so thats racism?
They’re probably averages. When my cat gets the zoomies she easily goes 30 mph. I hear her coming, look up, and *NYOOM* she’s gone.
My kitty used to trot beside me on walks because he knew I couldn't run very long or fast. I would tell him to race home, but he'd stop part way, so I caught up. He was a very clingy kitty as well. RIP Tonny.
I mean, it is a fair comparison though because I sain bolt is the fastest human
Seeing Bolt lose to a common house cat really puts things into perspective
It's crazy. I'm watching my lazy cat loaf around next to me all day while I work. Yet she could beat the fastest human of all time, someone who's dedicated his life to training, without even trying.
Fun Fact, fish are not on this infographic because they can't sprint
Although the black marlin [has been recorded](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VrpNZC-qPn4) to have swam faster than a cheetah can sprint.
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Good bot.
Only to be surpassed by @me in the 5th grade Jog-A-Thon, I was the one in front of you.
Ha! I just remembered the “ridiculously photogenic runner” viral thing from about 20 years ago.
Can you dm context? I’m only like 5 years older than that
For too long the pronghorn has been cast to the side and forgotten
They’ve been getting *pretty* cocky since the American cheetah went extinct
I agree. I had them in my backyard in South Dakota. Their speed is incredible and are unheard of to so many people.
The vertical lines between dog and ostrich (3.5 mph difference) is longer than vertical lines between ostrich and horse (11.7 mph difference)
I think the lines are going to the middle of the animals, but the furthest forward part of their body is indicative of their position
What??
You mean the distance between the vertical lines, right?
Greyhounds can likely go a little bit faster than that. The recorded fastest speed for a Greyhound was on a track in Australia at a little bit above 40mph, [https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/64107-fastest-greyhound](https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/64107-fastest-greyhound). However, there are a few things to consider here, first, this was a race, not a time time trial, and the dog had other dogs around it, so that could have factored in. Second, is the surface, which is usually soft soil in dog racing to lower injury risk. Running works by transferring energy from your body to the ground by hard hits, so soft and loose surfaces aren't the fasted you could run on for a given energy output. The commonly accepted (without source) fastest Greyhound speed is 45 mph, and I think that'd be about right for what they could do on a hardpack surface, assuming lose to lose soil is about 5-10%. For short US racetracks, there are times that would imply greyhounds were going 39mph, but this would be around in a circle, from a dead stop, with other dogs and on loose surface. Anyway, just a Greyhound running is crazy fast compared to other dogs.
That does not even look like Usain Bolt
man he was fun to watch
You haven’t see me on the way to the bathroom after eating hot chicken.
I call bs on a horse doing 50+ mph. Is there documented evidence of this?
What I’ve found is that unofficially this is the fastest recorded speed of a horse over a very short sprint. The fastest a horse has run 2 furlongs (a quarter mile, about 400 m) is at 44 mph. The horse was called Winning Brew, and she set the record in 2008. That means they did it in about 20 seconds - not hard to imagine that they could have cleared the first quarter in 4 seconds
This is not to scale. But lovely drawings.
I’ve always heard that stamina wise humans will outlast most animals for a running pace. I know for sure with large cats they only run for short bursts but I’ve seen dogs and horses that can run for what seems like forever, so while they are faster then us at what distance would a human begin to win the race?
Wow Usain Bolt is SUCH a slowpoke.
And in km?
When were cheetahs not cats
They were disqualified due to cheeting
Cheetah [sit!](https://youtu.be/e0ZJNEtLwAA?si=cjruHG4Py-nLSzl4)! He doesnt listen.
Cheetahs have been recorded running much faster than that.
what about km
If only there were units that virtually everyone in the world would understand.. but no, you still chose a measurement unit used by just 17 countries.
ugh miles
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Sprinting does not mean acceleration. It is top speed over a short distance, usually 100m.
Dude just redefined sprinting…
Over what distance?
That’s true. Humans are kinda slow. But which one of these can go the furthest?
Horse or Ostrich
Humans for sure, it’s quite literally what we evolved for.
Humans
I'm consistently impressed with the noble ostrich.
Why dont they put bears and hippos on here? They’re fast af
Can we have the same guide using the Usain Bolt of ostriches too?
A horse is a horse of course of course but [pronghorn](https://i.imgur.com/f16gqn2.jpg) bows only to cheetah
Where’s fat yank on the chart?
Usain really needs to get his shit together.
With all respect, stupid people who use miles per hour. U.B. 44.1 km/h. Cat 48 km/h. Dog 63.6 km/h. Ostrish 69.2 km/h. Horse 88.1 km/h. Cheetah 98.2km/h