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I got a bone to pick with this kind of diagram. Everyone likes to talk about how much better other animals are at things than us, but if you look at animals holistically, humans are really fuckin good at everything. Like yeah there's a bunch of animals that are faster than us, a bunch of animals that bites stronger than us, a bunch of animals that are more muscular than us, but we're consistently in like the top 10% overall
Finna make a version of this meme where it's mice and iguanas
We also have better full-light vision than a lot of animals, even the ones with good dark vision.
And we have better night vision than most the animals that have better day-vision than us. Humans are like the Leatherman of animals. Universally capable of doing most things but not as good as something specialized for that task. Plus of course capable of coming up with ways to cheat
jack of all trades, master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one
Oh, we are bad-ass runners. Top that one!
we're certainly bad ass-runners, i'm not sure most people could even walk on their butts!
Relevant XKCD
We’re also the best marathon runners, as a species.
Yup! Ingenuity is our greatest strength! People like to talk about how a naked human with no tools is weak, and like yeah, but that's like saying your average house cat could kill a gorilla if you simply removed its muscles