Is there any physical activity that humans can compete with animals?

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never heard of an animals using drugs in the wild...

http://www.cracked.com/article_17032...han-we-do.html

Now you have.

[DarkTZeratul]

We would win the shit out of a throwing competition.
http://what-if.xkcd.com/44/

[Sygil]

Humans can throw stuff. Most animals can't.

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Our brain give us a massive advantage that no other animals have, even when it comes to physical attributes. You can solely through will power force your body to become stronger, faster and more agile than is considered normal. You can even figure out how to become resistant to disease, poison, venom and other nasty things, this is not even an attribute humans have naturally, yet we can achieve it. Humans are the only animal that can transcend from being human to being something more than human.

If you're born a Gorilla that's what you'll remain for the rest of your life. A gorilla can only achieve what its genes has in store for it. It will always respond in a predictable way according to its instincts. It can't become stronger than normal because it doesn't understand that it can sacrifice energy to improve its physique. It can't observe itself through the eyes of its opponents and therefor never understand how to beat an adversary. It will always just remain a gorilla like any other gorilla. If you're born a human you can become so much more, different from your own kin even.

Humans unlike other animals don't have any fixed attributes that define us. We can imagine and become what we imagine. Immune to disease and venom. Trade precious energy to become stronger, faster and more agile than most other animals. We can even pretend to be other animals to such an extent where the animal we are deceiving believes we are one of them, or it is one of us.

There's no competition here, we're dominating and always have since our species arose.

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A cheetah cannot maintain speed for as long as ultra-marathon runners.

Horses, zhevras, gnus, and other herd animals would actually like to differ, however.

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Only birds and sea animals can beat humans when it comes to endurance. I can't think of any land animal that would beat a human in endurance running and I don't think there's any animal that could either.

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Horses, zhevras, gnus, and other herd animals would actually like to differ, however.

Given enough time, a human would win a long, long race with all those animals. There are many documentaries about this worth a watch.

[Osmeric]

Horses, zhevras, gnus, and other herd animals would actually like to differ, however.

The Pronghorn is probably a better example. It had four related species that existed when humans entered North America, but only it survives, possibly because of its ability to sustain high speeds for long distances.

[Milchshake]

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