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First panel: [blank white space with black text] Jogging from the perspective of animals
Second panel: Wolf by a tree looking at a man jogging. “What are you running from, apex predator”
Third panel: Wolf: “Are you chasing prey?” “You need to conserve energy”
Last panel: [second wolf peeking in] “The hell is that guy doing” [first wolf] “I don’t know. I don’t understand”
(alt text by @cypnk@mastodon.social)
If you consider the greater evolutionary history, up until very recently humans have been kind of like the monster in It Follows. They’re not very fast runners, but they are relentless. No other animal can run for such a long time. They’ll keep going and going for hours on end, and they will eventually catch up with their victim. For an injured prey with explosive strength but relatively low endurance it must be absolutely terrifying.
Dogs joined the dark side, so they probably feel all cool and mighty next to their running master. In their head they go “yeah bitches you can run, but you can never hide from my human”.
Canine are also persistence hunters, bears can be as well. I still like the comic though.
Tldr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting
Lol at a tldr being a fucking wiki article, the opposite of short
Maybe it is “do read”
Today, learn and do read.