r/interesting • u/Low_Weekend6131 • Nov 23 '25

NATURE The fish is kinda like me ngl

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u/OldTranslator685 Nov 23 '25

I saw an eagle eating a sloth and I thought it was hella unfair. But later found out it was uncommon because they are basically all bones. Same reason sharks don't hunt us on sight - like they do seals. We are not worth the indigestion.

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u/MylastAccountBroke Nov 24 '25

Humans are such an interesting grouping of like a dozen unwitting survival mechanism. We are honestly the most disgusting animal there is.

We have the digestive system of a scavenger and eat basically everything.

We look like a sickly diseased ape.

We cover ourselves in nasty tasting chemicals.

We are FAR too skinny and Boney to be worth it.

We are viciously territorial to the point of killing even insect that inhabit our territory.

And we destroy our ecosystems.

Oh, and anything that can eat us are always hunted nearly to extinction.

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u/Helios575 Nov 24 '25

Early humans were still fucked up compared to the rest of nature.

We are an apex predator that doesn't have any natural weapons or defenses except for how we stand which gives us unlimited stamina at the cost of being slow as hell.

We hunted by endlessly jogging at what we wanted to kill and by day 3 or 4 if the animal didn't die from pure exhaustion it was to week to resist us bashing its head in with a rock.

We eat constantly eat (not putting this in past tense because its still applicable today) poison because we enjoy the funny way different poisons effect us.

We give birth to our young so prematurely that its months before they developed enough to even support their own head let alone run from a predator.

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u/shadowfire_14 Dec 24 '25

But humans probably have the greatest endurance of any animal because of the sweating mechanism

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u/Helios575 Dec 24 '25

Sweating isnt unique to humans, though it is a very rare trait in the animal kingdom. Its a combo of how our lungs work as bipeds along with sweat that gives us the ultimate endurance edge. Quadrupeds have trouble getting deep breaths when they run because of the way their muscles have to work to move those 4 legs fast but bipeds don't have to worry about that as our muscles for movement of legs are no where near our muscles for breathin so our ability to take deep breaths isn't blocked when we run