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Fastest organism. The peregrine falcon is the fastest bird, and the fastest member of the animal kingdom, with a diving speed of over 300 km/h (190 mph). [1] The fastest land animal is the cheetah. Among the fastest animals in the sea is the black marlin, with uncertain and conflicting reports of recorded speeds. [2][3]
The peregrine is renowned for its speed. It can reach over 320 km/h (200 mph) during its characteristic hunting stoop (high-speed dive), [5] making it the fastest animal on the planet. [6] [7] [8] According to a National Geographic TV program, the highest measured speed of a peregrine falcon is 389 km/h (242 mph).
This is a list of the fastest flying birds in the world. A bird's velocity is necessarily variable; a hunting bird will reach much greater speeds while diving to catch prey than when flying horizontally. The bird that can achieve the greatest airspeed is the peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus), able to exceed 320 km/h (200 mph) in its dives.
Documentary video filmed at 1200 frames per second showing the movement of Sarah, the fastest recorded cheetah, over a set run. The cheetah is the world's fastest land animal. [89] [90] Estimates of the maximum speed attained range from 80 to 128 km/h (50 to 80 mph).
It is also the third fastest animal in the world overall after the peregrine falcon and the golden eagle, with all three species capable of executing high speed dives known as "stooping", approaching 300 km/h (190 mph). [3] The saker falcon is the national bird of Hungary, the United Arab Emirates, and Mongolia.
The title of "fastest land animal" doesn't belong to the cheetah or Olympic sprinter Usain Bolt -- instead, it goes to a tinier creature. Much tinier. Like, the size of a sesame seed. Samuel ...
The fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus), also known as the finback whale or common rorqual, is a species of baleen whale and the second-longest cetacean after the blue whale. The biggest individual reportedly measured 26 m (85 ft) in length, with a maximum recorded weight of 77 to 81 tonnes. The fin whale's body is long, slender and brownish-gray ...
The cheetah is the fastest land animal in the world. [15] It was previously thought that the body temperature of a cheetah increases during a hunt due to high metabolic activity. [ 16 ] In a short period of time during a chase, a cheetah may produce 60 times more heat than at rest, with much of the heat, produced from glycolysis , stored to ...