SAMA HOOLE: Your body is hunting equipment from the skull to the heel, and you have been using it to carry shopping. Your brain burns a fifth of your energy sitting still. Nothing that expensive gets built on leaves. It was paid for in meat and fat, and it was built to plan a kill.

Your body is hunting equipment from the skull to the heel, and you have been using it to carry shopping. Your brain burns a fifth of your energy sitting still. Nothing that expensive gets built on leaves. It was paid for in meat and fat, and it was built to plan a kill. Your eyes face forward, like every animal that chases and unlike every animal that gets chased. The whites of them are on show so the hunter beside you can follow your gaze without a word being said. You have two to four million sweat glands and no fur. You are the best-cooled animal on land. An antelope cannot pant and gallop at once. You can sweat and jog all afternoon. You have a ligament running up the back of your neck whose only job is to hold your head steady at a run. No ape has it. Your shoulder throws at ninety miles an hour. A chimp, far stronger pound for pound, manages twenty. Your backside is the largest muscle you own, and it hardly switches on until you break into a run. Your Achilles tendon is a long spring that hands back energy on every stride. A chimp barely has one. In the Kalahari, men still run a kudu to a standstill in the midday heat. It takes a few hours and the kudu loses. In mid Wales every June, people race horses over twenty-two miles of hill. People have won it three times. A brain to plan it, eyes to aim it, a cooling system, a throwing arm and a spring in each heel. Nobody has ever needed any of that to creep up on a blackberry.

— Sama Hoole (@SamaHoole) October 12, 2026

Your body is hunting equipment from the skull to the heel, and you have been using it to carry shopping. Your brain burns a fifth of your energy sitting still. Nothing that expensive gets built on leaves. It was paid for in meat and fat, and it was built to plan a kill. Your eyes face forward, like every animal that chases and unlike every animal that gets chased. The whites of them are on show so the hunter beside you can follow your gaze without a word being said. You have two to four million sweat glands and no fur. You are the best-cooled animal on land. An antelope cannot pant and gallop at once. You can sweat and jog all afternoon. You have a ligament running up the back of your neck whose only job is to hold your head steady at a run. No ape has it. Your shoulder throws at ninety miles an hour. A chimp, far stronger pound for pound, manages twenty. Your backside is the largest muscle you own, and it hardly switches on until you break into a run. Your Achilles tendon is a long spring that hands back energy on every stride. A chimp barely has one. In the Kalahari, men still run a kudu to a standstill in the midday heat. It takes a few hours and the kudu loses. In mid Wales every June, people race horses over twenty-two miles of hill. People have won it three times. A brain to plan it, eyes to aim it, a cooling system, a throwing arm and a spring in each heel.

Nobody has ever needed any of that to creep up on a blackberry.