Fastest Animals
May 23rd, 2008 | by Muneeb Akhtar |
There are many incredible and fast running animals in the world.All most every one knows that cheetah runs at sixty miles an hour only for a short time on land , but what about other animals with speed? There are couple that are faster than any in the world. It is a bird and a bug and like the cheetah, these two have problems with their speed too. The fastest bird happens to be the peregrine falcon. It goes up to two hundred miles a hour by power diving but never stops until it hits something it targets like prey. In the world wars, the Nazis trained and used peregrine falcons to hunt down and kill carrier pigeons. So far, some of the pigeons succeeded in bringing back messages and avoiding falcons which is one of the reasons why the Nazis lost. One man in America worked at an airport with a peregrine falcon. He trains it to fly around with such speed they manage to scare away geese preventing airplane wrecks.
Bug:
The bug that was told in first para , despite its size, is the fastest in the world and it is called the tiger beetle. It can run as fast as a human can walk fast. If this beetle is the size of a human, it can reach speeds up to three hundred miles an hour and it would take a drag racer to catch up with it. The problem it has with its speed is its eyes. In easy words, it literally runs blind.
So in spite of having this incredible speed these animals have some difficulties.
