Friday, 30 August 2013

Fastest Animals in the World

The worlds fastest animals on Water,Land and Air :

Fastest Mammal :


Cheetah:

Cheetah

Cheetah is the only land animal can run faster than any other in the world. This big cat can run as fast as 112 to 120 km/h. It can accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h in three seconds. After chase the  heart rate is from 200 to 250 beats per minute and the. The length of a Cheetah is approximately 70″-86″. Cheetah can live in most of Africa and parts of Southwestern Asia, and a small population. It is also one of the member of cat family.


Fastest Bird:

Peregrine Falcon:


Peregrine

Peregrine Falcon is the fastest bird, and the fastest member of animal kingdom. This bird is also known as Peregrine and  the highest measured speed of this bird is 389 km/h.The Peregrine Falcon has a body length of 34 to 58 cm (13–23 in) and a wingspan from 74 to 120 cm. This bird can live in all continents except Antarctica.


Fastest Reptile:

Leatherback:

Leatherback

Leatherback are the largest living turtles on earth. Leatherback is also called as lute turtle and it is also the fastest-moving reptiles in the world. It is moving at 35.28 km/h speed in the water. They swim at 0.5–2.8 meters per second. The size of this reptile is up to 7 ft long and its weight is 900 kg.


Fastest Fish:

Black marlin:

Black Merlin

Black marlin is the fastest bony fish, reaching speeds up to 130 km/h. The maximum length of this fish is 15.3 ft and weight of 915 m. It can be found in waters of the Indian and pacific ocean. The average life span of this fish is 45 years.


Fastest Insect:

Horse-fly:

Horse-Fly

Horse-fly is the fastest flying insect of speed 140 km/h in the world. In Canada the horse-fly is also known as bull dog flies. Bites of this insect is very painful and it is a blood sucking insects, this leads to blood borne diseases for animals and humans.

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