"He's running so slow...."

1 hour later

"How can he still be running like that?"

Animals understand play. Although not sure where the ball is.

I mean, if animals engage in pretend fights and other forms of play, it seems that they can on some level grasp the idea of practicing or doing something for fun.

Jogging is practice for how humans killed pretty much all the megafauna in the world: exhaustion hunting.

I mean, the ability to run long distances without tiring is kind of what makes humans an apex predator. We can out-endurance just about every other creature. Most ancient human hunting techniques involved just wounding an animal, and then literally chasing it until it got too tired to keep going.

Wolves are very similar, which is what made us such natural hunting companions. The co-evolution of humans and dogs is an extremely interesting rabbit hole, if anyone is looking for one.

All that to say, the wolf would understand the need to run more than just about any other animal. A bear would work better here. A wolf would just see us running and think 'game recognizes game', just like they already did eons ago :3

Dogs do love a good jog though. Give that good boi a bit of kibble and then see how he feels.

Other animals get zoomies too.

Run for fun? What the hell kinda fun is that?!

So this is pretty neat:

https://www.science.org/content/article/born-run-early-endurance-running--may-have-evolved-help-humans-chase-down-prey

Humans aren't good at running fast, but we are good at running for a long time for long distances, so it's thought that we would just run after things until they got tired.

So like you know how people in horror movies would run and then look over their shoulder and Jason is somehow still there?

So apex that most of us outsource our hunting and farming, which makes us fat and slow unless we purposefully burn energy for no other purpose than to burn it.

Jogging from the perspective of non-human animals

FTFY

“I don’t know why they’re running, but let’s chase them!”

Whoever made this has never met a dog

I say this to myself when I see people jogging and I really just want to yell "what are you running from!?"

I cannot stop laughing 😂

Personally I think humans run because they are a species with enough cognitive abilities to be masochists

I also get confused when I see people jogging, don't they know lounging around eating snacks is way more fun?

Let's say it's part of a mating ritual. I know this is not true, but I believe it gets the point across.