Why Are We Running Long Distances?

The only animals that tend to run long distances naturally, right are animals like hunting dogs, wolves, hyenas. And what's exceptional about us is that we're also able to do it in the heat, when it's hot, because we're glorious sweatersteore. Most animals cool by panting, which is basely evaporation of sture in the mouth and the nose. We turn our entire bodies into a tongue,. By squirting water all over our bodies. That gives us enormous amount of surface area to cool. So no animal can come close to humans in turms over the ability to do vigorous exercise in the heat and keep cool were the unquestioned champion

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