Monkey God
Mangina Full of Sand
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I'll say it again since you are apparently too dense to understand. No animals run along trails for fun. They would only run after being chased. Name me one god damned animal that runs along trails for the fun of it please. When you fail to find a suitable candidate that runs cardio in the woods, I'll be waiting for your admission that you do not know how to keep from taking thing out of context for the sake of arguing.
I argued that running along trails does not mimic running from prey. Being loud and jogging noisily along a path does not in any way mimic an animal fleeing from a predator that has just attacked them. The attack has to happen first, you see?
As someone who worked for the US Forest Circus for many years I can tell you animals do use and often even create their own trails and yes sometimes even run just for the hell of it. As far as jogging and being loud, from a predators point of view that just makes you look stupid (the jogger). Being loud attracts predators, until they realize youre a human, than most predators leave us alone because they've learned in general to avoid us.
While intellect makes us the top of the food chain as a species, as an individual animal alone in the wild we are only on top of the chain as long as we have the products of our intellect with us (ala firearms).