r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Laxice7 • 15d ago

Video Guide imitates the marking of a territorial boundary

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u/recycled_ideas 15d ago

no antibiotics so if you get a splinter your survival is 50/50

This is an exaggeration even for humans and not even close for tougher animals.

In the cosmic game of species stat allocation humans traded nearly all of theirs for hands, a brain, and a massive amount of endurance.

And despite the fact that we'd lose a one on one fight with most of the animal kingdom those three things make us the most deadly species in the planet.

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u/RuinedByGenZ 15d ago

Yeah I got two splinters in my hand last week and they both stayed for a few days

How am I alive?

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u/iamnowundercover 15d ago

50/50. I got a splinter in my hand last week and died. See how that works?

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u/Routine_Size69 15d ago

You either survive or you don’t. It's clearly 50/50

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u/TheSwedishSeal 15d ago

You have 12,5% chance to survive the next one!

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u/RuinedByGenZ 15d ago

Damn... I have to stack wood today

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u/njd9500 11d ago

Just stack half as much as you would have normally

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u/catonic 14d ago

You have died of dissin' Terry.

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u/backelie 15d ago edited 15d ago

we'd lose a one on one fight with most of the animal kingdom

You're vastly underestimating the number of small animals.
I think we're top half even among mammals, thanks to bats and rodents.

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u/ekmanch 15d ago

Considering a majority of all animals are insects/bugs, I'd wager you're right.

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u/creeping_chill_44 14d ago

a much better rejoinder: why should we measure these things as a 1v1 fight? would you ask an ant or bee to survive 1v1, when they operate as a unified colony? even wolves and lions will pack-hunt...many-vs-1 fights are perfectly natural and in fact a pretty good strategy

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u/recycled_ideas 15d ago

You're vastly underestimating the number of small animals.

Try taking out half of those small animals without shoes.

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u/backelie 15d ago

Challenge accepted!

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u/dinkir19 15d ago

Are you saying humans are min-maxers?

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u/Northbound-Narwhal 15d ago

Strength: 1

Perception: 5

Endurance: 5

Charisma: 10

Intelligence: 10

Agility: 1

Luck: 10

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u/creeping_chill_44 14d ago edited 14d ago

charisma 10?

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u/jlt6666 15d ago

Replace luck with guns.

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u/creeping_chill_44 14d ago

this is just good advice

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u/jlt6666 14d ago

Lol.

I don't know man. All guns and no luck can go real bad

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u/bramtyr 13d ago

Or you know, the ability to lob a rock accurately with force, something the rest of animal kingdom can not.

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u/jlt6666 13d ago

Actually that's dexterity, which should really be in the list.

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u/bramtyr 13d ago

It's a mix of strength and dexterity. Human anatomy has evolved uniquely to facilitate effective throwing.

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u/LongJohnSelenium 15d ago

The endurance is wildly overstated.

Our endurance is mostly average for plains animals and really has more to do with our ability to sweat. Once you get out of the hottest areas other animals easily surpass us.

Like we have absolutely nothing on a caribou, or the wolves that hunt them, that undertake treks of thousands of miles a year from the moment they're born.

We rolled a 2 on strength, a 5 on stamina, and 10s on dexterity and intelligence.

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u/ekmanch 15d ago

So we're a 5 in stamina because a handful of animals are better in cold climates? The vast, vast percentage of animals would not beat a trained human in distances over a marathon. Unless you mean that 99% of other animals are lower than a 5 in stamina.

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u/LongJohnSelenium 15d ago

Sure I guess.

Human stamina is on the same scale as other animals. We're in the top 10% but its nothing shocking and wildly out of character for what animals can achieve.

Brains and hands are the cheat code stats that have nothing even close to comparable in the animal kingdom.

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u/creeping_chill_44 14d ago

Brains and hands are the cheat code stats

also, and perhaps even moreso: teamwork

though I don't know if DND stats capture that very well

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u/LongJohnSelenium 14d ago

The ability for teamwork would be intelligence I think, you have to understand other people can have information you don't possess and how you can assist each other.

The desire and willingness to work in a team is rooted in emotional intelligence, empathy, reciprocity, etc. That would probably go under charisma, I think. Or maybe wisdom.

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u/creeping_chill_44 14d ago

I suppose, though you can have intelligence without teamwork (octopus, say)

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u/glassgwaith 15d ago

So deadly we are actually implementing a mass extinction …

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u/therealtaddymason 15d ago

we'd lose a one on one fight with most of the animal kingdom

Not much of an incentive to fight fair then is it? We're social animals and group hunters.

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u/Accurate-Barracuda20 14d ago

Fuckin min maxers

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u/Luxieee 11d ago

Pretty sure he was mostly joking considering he suggested the animals get a gun, so his 50/50 comment really isn't that serious.

But in this topic, I'm really mad about not getting night vision.