What is the reason for all the movement when we really need to go pee? Is it a subconscious reaction to distract the mind from a full bladder, or does sloshing the pee around in your bladder make it somehow better? I would assume not, since that probably increases the physical urge that you need to go pee, but why then do we dance and hop…
In my unscientific experience, if I’m on the go as in walking, the piss can be kept in for an hour and more. If I stop, I don’t think willpower alone will prevent me from pissing myself. So the dance is probably simulating the conditions of being too busy for a toilet break.
I guess keeping the muscles around the bladder in tension helps controlling it.
makes evolutionary sense. you’d be at a disadvantage if you need to pee when there’s a predator about. better to learn to hold it and run.
Not really, it’s well known that animals tend to shit and piss, dropping the weight and encumbrance, right before executing on the fight-or-flight response. People are likewise prone to soiling themselves in fear. So idk why it’s the other way around when just going on my walks, but I’m not gonna complain about it when my city doesn’t have many public toilets open at night.
i’m not an expert but I don’t think that the panic response invalidates it. it could still be advantageous to refrain from doing 1 or 2 all over the place just to not make it easier for predator to detect you, i guess. When in fight/flight mode it’s already too late so better get rid of the weight and also probably disgust or confuse the predator a bit.
Exactly, this depends on the circumstances. E.g. cats tend to bury the waste so it doesn’t smell, while other territorial animals piss on everything in sight to mark the land. Nevertheless, when an animal is jumped by another, they often drop deuces all over while hitting the road dramatically. There’s a recent-ish clip on Reddit of two hippos fighting, wherein one of them decided to do the helicopter distribution of dung in the middle of the altercation.