Fuck you, the Peregrine Falcon is awesome, it is best bird, fight me.
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.
Submitted 7 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 7 months ago
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
I’ll fight you. My man the crow will mess up your stupid falcon.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s only “fast” because it’s just falling.
ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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.
UncleBadTouch@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
I’ll let my B&G macaws fight for me. However I do think the Peregrine is the best raptor in the world.
RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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?
Dabundis@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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
devbo@lemmy.world 7 months ago
falling is cheating.
Djinn@lemm.ee 7 months ago
It’s not flying, it’s falling with style.
SirDankbud@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Well since they can’t reach that speed without being in the air, technically they’re the fastest animals OFF Earth.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 7 months ago
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.
SirDankbud@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Sorry, didn’t realize I needed a /s for something so clearly sarcastic
sicarius@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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.Denvil@lemmy.one 7 months ago
Erm ACTually, assuming Mike is 6ft tall, thats only 5000 ish ft per hour, less than 1 mph. That’s slower than Ussain Bolt!!
rhythmisaprancer@kbin.social 7 months ago
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!!
Hayduke@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m sorry. That answer wasn’t in the form of a question.
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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”
Obi@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
If it’s not Julien Lepers doing it I’m not interested.
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 7 months ago
On earth = cheetah
In the skies = dumb falcon
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
If we count diving then one of the animals that returned from space experiments would make the peregrine look like a sloth on ludes by comparison.
wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 7 months ago
Nah, have to be without equipment since 1998, and the whole “rocket snail” incident. Banned any support items after that
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
That’s the fastest animal above earth, silly
somePotato@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
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
Willy@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
A bowl of petunias would beat the falcon at some points in its descent from space. Possibly over and over again.
DroneRights@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Okay, show me a cheetah running in microgravity.
Ottomateeverything@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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.
shartworx@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
That apostrophe, tho.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 7 months ago
That was my bad. :( :)
don@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Better not do it again, or pretty much nothing will happen.
You’ve been warned
UncleBadTouch@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
I have a pair that nest just behind me every year. Its awesome watching them hunt.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That must be terrifying, to have a mating pair of raptors constantly at your rear. I’d be scared to turn around.
UncleBadTouch@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
just gotta do it slowly, and not look like food
Thade780@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Pretty sure my daughter runs faster when there’s a spider in her room.
Zehzin@lemmy.world 7 months ago
A tiny tardigrade shot off a .50 bullet. It would probably survive too
redballooon@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Humans fly faster
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
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)
butter@midwest.social 7 months ago
I bet a naked human is faster than a naked falcon
don@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Well yeah, we have bigger wings