• saltesc@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    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.

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      13 hours ago

      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.

      • Ricky Rigatoni@lemm.ee
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        12 hours ago

        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.

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          12 hours ago

          It doesn’t necessarily matter. They just don’t like running after prey.

          They can make swift dashes on land to catch prey sunbathing or something that’s escaping, but that’s the limits of what they’d like to do.

          It’s like Pandas. They’re cute as hell, but if it wasn’t for us, they’d have died out already. They’ve evolved themselves to a point where all they eat is one specific plant, and they have such a low sex drive that we can’t even show them Panda Porn to get them horny. We literally have to extract sperm from their balls and inject it into the uterus of the female to make baby pandas.

          Evolution is lazy is what I’m trying to say.

    • Owl@mander.xyz
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      14 hours ago

      Or that you have the adequate weapons on you, the knowledge and physical ability to use them properly.