Its diving speed during flight is more than 300 km (186 miles) per hour, making it not only the world’s fastest bird but also the world’s fastest animal.
Its diving speed during flight is more than 300 km (186 miles) per hour, making it not only the world’s fastest bird but also the world’s fastest animal.
Humans fly faster
With modern tech and ingenuity yes ... much much faster.
But a naked human .... fastest recorded running speed is 44.7 kph (27.7 mph) .... but in flight, or free fall can reach a stabilized controlled terminal velocity of 193 kph (120 mph) and a maximum controlled streamlined terminal velocity of 500 kph (310 mph)
https://www.sciencefacts.net/terminal-velocity-of-a-human.html
Well yeah, we have bigger wings
Fuck you, the Peregrine Falcon is awesome, it is best bird, fight me.
I will not have my boy be slandered like this.
I’ll fight you. My man the crow will mess up your stupid falcon.
They will too! My neighborhood murder is enormous, and they keep the airspace clear of bald eagles. If an eagle ever dares enter our neighborhood, the crows flock out of the trees by the hundreds and chase that motherfucker off, cawing all the way. When they're done, they all return to the trees and caw for a good half hour afterwards. My guess is they're talking about how bad ass they are.
It's only "fast" because it's just falling.
Ok buddy, let's see you pull out of a terminal velocity (180mph) head first dive.
As any pilot will tell you; if you manage to pull out of a dive it's not falling out of the sky, it's aerobatics.
Ontop of this, it's catching prey in it's talons, let's see you try and grab anything when traveling at 180mph in any direction.
I'll let my B&G macaws fight for me. However I do think the Peregrine is the best raptor in the world.
Isn't this also the bird that picked up its prey and drops them from a great height to kill them since it can't kill with its claws?
Even better. It curls its feet into fists and dive bombs with a 240mph punch to stun its prey, then casually walks up to finish the job with its beak.
It kills with the real life Falcon Punch
falling is cheating.
Seriously, I'm sure we could find some shark with a faster terminal speed if dropped from high enough...
The real trick is that these Falcons exceed their terminal velocity in those dives. So not just falling but falling with added power and a hell of a lot of style!
It's not flying, it's falling with style.
Well since they can't reach that speed without being in the air, technically they're the fastest animals OFF Earth.
Planets are typically understood to include the atmosphere.
You wouldn't look at Jupiter and say, "well it's not really that big, there's just a bunch of a clouds in the way," right?
So the peregrines are on Earth, but not on earth.
In that case Felix Baumgartner is the fastest human being.
With a top speed of 843.6 mike's per hour.
Ussain Bolt and suck it.
Edit: if the autocorrect mistake is funny, just leave tit as tit is.Erm ACTually, assuming Mike is 6ft tall, thats only 5000 ish ft per hour, less than 1 mph. That's slower than Ussain Bolt!!
One of the craziest interactions I have seen was when a Peregrine Falcon attacked a Canada Goose in flight. We were watching the goose fly up canyon and the peregrine must have thought it was too close to its nest or something. Only time I've heard a goose make a sound like that!!
I'm sorry. That answer wasn't in the form of a question.
I hate that. In France we have Question Pour Un Champion (questions for a winner) where the host gives a definition and ends with “I am..” and the contestant would say “a cheetah”
On earth = cheetah
In the skies = dumb falcon
If we count diving then one of the animals that returned from orbital experiments would make the peregrine look like a sloth on ludes by comparison.
Nah, have to be without equipment since 1998, and the whole "rocket snail" incident. Banned any support items after that
That's the fastest animal above earth, silly
To be faaaair, the cheetah reaches 100+ km/h on it's own merits, the dumb falcon just falls really fast
If you drop a whale from space it will probably beat that speed record while falling, the falcon doesn't get extra credit just because he can get up there and survive without help
A bowl of petunias would beat the falcon at some points in its descent from space. Possibly over and over again.
Straight horizontal max speed flight for the falcon is 110-130 km/h though, so still very fast even when not falling.
I had a pretty cool encounter with one about 6-7 years ago, I was on a driving holiday and we were cruising throught the Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park doing about 90-100km and one of these guys just casually comes up to my window, so close I could have grabbed it. It must have picked some drag effect off the van like a wake in the air or something and it was just gliding next to us with the occasional flap for a good 5 minutes until there was an incoming car and it ducked out
Okay, show me a cheetah running in microgravity.
There ain't no way a whale's terminal velocity reaches 240 mph. The falcon's credit comes from the fact that it can make itself so aerodynamic.
A tiny tardigrade shot off a .50 bullet. It would probably survive too
Pretty sure my daughter runs faster when there's a spider in her room.
Just try this and see what happens…
Straight to IP gulag.
Wikipedia has matured a lot. They are serious over there.