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To: js1138

Perhaps but the short sprint can be pretty critical. It doesn't seem like it would matter if the human could outlast the wolf in the long run if in the short run, the wolf catches and eats him.


93 posted on 09/20/2006 12:31:47 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom

Not likely in real life. There are few, if any documented instances of wolves attacking a healthy adult human, at least in North America. Rabid wolves don't count. Rabid squirrels will attack. Wolves raised by humans don't count. They have little fear of humans.

In any case, a single wolf would be suicidal to attack an adult human. And the original question, in case you just forgot to respond, was whether a human could outrun a wolf, or any other four-legged mammal over a long distance.


98 posted on 09/20/2006 12:41:58 PM PDT by js1138 (The absolute seriousness of someone who is terminally deluded.)
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To: metmom
Perhaps but the short sprint can be pretty critical. It doesn't seem like it would matter if the human could outlast the wolf in the long run if in the short run, the wolf catches and eats him.

"I don't have to outrun the bear; I only have to outrun you" ping!

Cheers!

361 posted on 09/22/2006 8:10:41 PM PDT by grey_whiskers
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