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Not to alarm anyone, but unless you're doing the 100m in around 11s or less, current large crocodiles are still faster than you. But if you're fit enough to keep the speed going, you should outlast them over short enough distance.
And if you can't do any of that, well you'll have to run lateral to it and hope your agility out maneouvers them.
Mythbusters tested whether it was better to zig zag or run straight away from a gator. Turns out, it doesn't matter, gators won't chase you.
They've spent hundreds of millions of years sitting in lakes waiting for food to step in their mouths. They deserve to be called sloths more than actual sloths.
Or that you have the adequate weapons on you, the knowledge and physical ability to use them properly.
chootem inna hed nah boa!
Serpentine!
Just so ya know, a regular modern day crocodile can also outrun you on land.
Yeah, but only because I'm American
Yeah but I would easily beat him in hurdles.
This is true. Or running serpentine:
"He only has a brain the size of a walnut."
Don't even get me started on the pole vault
A mighty steed!
You cannot prove that humans didn't ride these into battle.
Alligators can already outrun a person on land.
They just choose not to. Because they're lazy and they don't like running after their prey.
I suspect the same was probably true of whatever it was we killed off back then too.
Flat solid land? Nah, person wins on any distance over a few feet.
Through brush and marsh? Nobody beats the gator.
That's not true. And another one.
TL;DR;
They can run up to 35mph over short (20-30ft) distances. Then they can run at a slightly slower (though faster than most humans) pace for a sustained period of roughly 100 feet (30ish meters for the non-'mericans).
In every scenario they can and will catch every human on earth except an Olympic sprinter. And even then, it wouldn't be a comfortable race for them.
The reason they don't chase you down and eat you on land, is because they've evolved to be ambush predators from water transitions to land. They are lazy. Simple as that. And their food comes to them in most cases. Why would they want to spend all those calories just to maybe get a un-tasty human? They conserve energy so they can perform several ambush attempts for prey, rather than one long chase.
In the end, their current approach gets them more calories for the efforts, which is why they've evolved that way.
But they can, on paper, absolutely wipe the floor with you in a sprint over solid, flat land. For 100 feet.
You should try reading your source...
"Experts say the American alligator’s top running speed clocks in at 11mph."
I a fat outta shape slouch, but I think in a life or death situation I could manage 11mph for a few minutes.
Sure they can burst a good bit of speed, but that 20-30 ft sprint mostly comes from them lunging with all 4 legs and their tail as hard as they can and then maybe 1 or 2 more lunges and some scrabbling.
It's mainly a matter of weight and gait. They got stubby little side protruding legs and they weight a ton incomparison to their leg musculature. They can high walk for a good distance, and they can gallop, but only for a few steps.
Usain Bolt's fastest recorded speed is 27.79 mph.
Unless you can dust the fastest man on Earth in a footrace, you're gonna be a snack.
Fun fact, the reason dragons appear in literally every culture that developed language came from people surviving horrific encounters with enormous crocodiles.
Wow, that is fun!
But is that a fact
(it's not)
hairy crocodile? artistic liberty?
Looks like they photoshopped a crocodile onto a bear
lol, i wasn't paying attention clearly
Gee, I wonder why those died out.
Yeah, who are they calling apex predator, take a look around.
More like ape-ex amirite
Can I pet that dawgg???
Sure, li'l buddy! He's coming quick, so I'm just going to run over there to take a picture.
Yes, first you pet them on the outside, then you pet them on the inside.
Steve Irwin would still have fed them.
Crocodoggo! 😍
Oh shit, sadam is that you?
Nah, just one if his body doubles.
how is that not a dragon?
All those "dragon types" charts you see call this a drake. I don't really get that because drakes are ducks.
But according to those charts, ducks are wyverns...
I miss r/hybrid animals
Be the change you want to see.
I can barely take care of myself
invents bazooka
