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Fastest animals

This is a list of the fastest animals in the world, by types of animal.

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]

When drawing comparisons between different classes of animals, an alternative unit is sometimes used for organisms: body length per second. On this basis the 'fastest' organism on earth, relative to its body length, is the Southern Californian mite, Paratarsotomus macropalpis, which has a speed of 322 body lengths per second.[4] The equivalent speed for a human, running as fast as this mite, would be 1,300 mph (2,092 km/h),[5] or approximately Mach 1.7. The speed of the P. macropalpis is far in excess of the previous record holder, the Australian tiger beetle Cicindela eburneola, which is the fastest insect in the world relative to body size, with a recorded speed of 1.86 metres per second (6.7 km/h; 4.2 mph), or 171 body lengths per second.[6] The cheetah, the fastest land mammal, scores at only 16 body lengths per second,[4] while Anna's hummingbird has the highest known length-specific velocity attained by any vertebrate.

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    Fish

    Due to physical constraints, fish may be incapable of exceeding swim speeds of 36 km/h (22 mph).[2][3] The larger reported figures below are therefore highly questionable:

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    1. Sustained ground speed for approximately nine hours with no rest on high tailwinds during an Antarctic storm.

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    Notes

    1. Different sources cite different speeds; estimates include 96–120 km/h (60–75 mph),[18] 98 km/h (61 mph),[19] 100 km/h (62 mph),[20] 104 km/h (65 mph),[21] and 104.4 km/h (64.9 mph).[22][23] There is a tendency to overestimate the speed of fast animals, and claims of the cheetah running 114 km/h (71 mph) or faster have been discredited.[18][23]
    2. Estimates include "over 53 miles (86 kilometers) per hour",[26] 88.5 km/h (55.0 mph),[18][21] an "alleged top speed of 60 miles an hour [96.6 km/h]" (emphasis added),[27] 98 km/h (61 mph),[28] and "a top speed of about 100 km/h [62 mph]" (emphasis added).[29]
    3. Estimates include 70 km/h (43 mph) (specifically the black wildebeest),[32] "approximately 80 km/h or 50 mph",[33] and "over 50 miles per hour [80.5 km/h]" (specifically the blue wildebeest).[34]
    4. Different sources cite different speeds; estimates include 96–120 km/h (60–75 mph),[18] 98 km/h (61 mph),[19] 100 km/h (62 mph),[20] 104 km/h (65 mph),[21] and 104.4 km/h (64.9 mph).[22][23] There is a tendency to overestimate the speed of fast animals, and claims of the cheetah running 114 km/h (71 mph) or faster have been discredited.[18][23]
    5. Estimates include 64 km/h (40 mph)[64] and 70 km/h (43 mph).[65]
    6. Estimates include 70 km/h (43 mph) (specifically the black wildebeest),[32] "approximately 80 km/h or 50 mph",[33] and "over 50 miles per hour [80.5 km/h]" (specifically the blue wildebeest).[34]
    7. Estimates include 64 km/h (40 mph),[70][71] 70 km/h (43 mph),[72]:237[73] and 72 km/h (45 mph) (some attribute this to the antelope jackrabbit,[74] others to the white-tailed jackrabbit,[75][76] and still others to jackrabbits in general.[77])
    8. Estimates include 66 km/h (41 mph)[79] and 71 km/h (44 mph)[80][81]
    9. Estimates include "more than 30 miles per hour (48 kilometers per hour)"[84] and 71 km/h (44 mph).[85]
    10. Estimates include 67 km/h (42 mph),[86] 68.4 km/h (42.5 mph),[87] and 69 km/h (43 mph).[21]
    11. Estimates include 64 km/h (40 mph),[88]:169 69 km/h (43 mph) (specifically for the kulan subspecies),[89] and 70 km/h (43 mph) (specifically for the Persian subspecies).[90]
    12. Estimates include 35 mph (56 km/h)[91] and 40 mph (64 km/h) for both the Grévy's zebra and Burchell's zebra.[92][93]
    13. Estimates include 64 km/h (39.8 mph),[94] 64.4 km/h (40 mph),[95] and 65 km/h (40 mph)[96]:55
    14. Estimates include 64 km/h (39.8 mph),[98]
    15. Estimates include 40 mph (64 km/h)[99]
    16. Estimates include 30 mph (48 km/h),[100] 25–31 mph (40–50 km/h) (specifically for the brown hyena)[101] and 37 mph (60 km/h)[88]:160[102]

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