• @[email protected]
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    -61 year ago

    I think the only reason we can keep running in hot weather (better than other animals) is because we’re resourceful enough to carry water

    • paper_clip
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      451 year ago

      Actually it’s because we have sweat glands all over our bodies, which I think is unique among animals. Dog, for example, can only dump excess heat by heavier panting, whereas humans will just sweat more.

      Some of us have more and more puissant sweat glands than others.

      • aebrer
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        351 year ago

        Additionally being bipedal means that as we run our breathing rate is separate from our gait. As four legged animals gallop the motion of their running expands and contracts their diaphragm, forcing them to breath at the same rate they run at.

        Since they can’t sweat like us, or breath like us, they have to stop running and start panting in order to cool down.

        While humans can just keep going, relentlessly, like the It Follows monster.

            • @rambaroo
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              1 year ago

              Because the point was to wear the animal down not just to follow it.

      • @[email protected]
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        111 year ago

        You just taught me a new word! Puissant!

        The word was so fun I decided to make a new community where people can share fun words they just learned. Thank you!

        • PaleRider
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          51 year ago

          So what’s the community? Don’t leave us hanging…

          • @[email protected]
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            121 year ago

            Haha, sorry! I didn’t share because as of now there is only the one post (about this word). Plus, I’m honestly unsure the best way to link a community so people can easily access it.

            That said, it is ILearnedAWord

            https://ttrpg.network/c/ilearnedaword

            for people who just learned a neat word and might want to share it. Truthfully, I don’t super expect it to grow to be more than just me posting in there, but I think it would be a fun way to keep track of fun words I learn and a better way to learn words than a word of the day calendar. The lack of seeing words in use on those drives me nuts, cause the sample sentences are usually boring af.

            • @porl
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              11 year ago

              Subscribed!

          • paper_clip
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            01 year ago

            It should be a community devoted to high-brow Yo Mama jokes, e.g., “Yo mama has puissant sweat glands!”