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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.

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • redballooon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Humans fly faster

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    • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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)

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      • butter@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I bet a naked human is faster than a naked falcon

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    • don@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well yeah, we have bigger wings

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  • ThePyroPython@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Fuck you, the Peregrine Falcon is awesome, it is best bird, fight me.

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    • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ll fight you. My man the crow will mess up your stupid falcon.

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      • CluckN@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That’s clearly a jackdaw

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    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s only “fast” because it’s just falling.

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      • ThePyroPython@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • UncleBadTouch@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ll let my B&G macaws fight for me. However I do think the Peregrine is the best raptor in the world.

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    • RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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?

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      • Dabundis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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  • devbo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    falling is cheating.

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    • Djinn@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s not flying, it’s falling with style.

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  • SirDankbud@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well since they can’t reach that speed without being in the air, technically they’re the fastest animals OFF Earth.

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • SirDankbud@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Sorry, didn’t realize I needed a /s for something so clearly sarcastic

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  • sicarius@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • Denvil@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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!!

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  • rhythmisaprancer@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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!!

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  • Hayduke@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m sorry. That answer wasn’t in the form of a question.

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    • LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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”

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      • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Nobody cares about France

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      • Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        If it’s not Julien Lepers doing it I’m not interested.

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  • LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    On earth = cheetah

    In the skies = dumb falcon

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  • Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nah, have to be without equipment since 1998, and the whole “rocket snail” incident. Banned any support items after that

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  • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s the fastest animal above earth, silly

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  • somePotato@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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    • Willy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A bowl of petunias would beat the falcon at some points in its descent from space. Possibly over and over again.

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    • DroneRights@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Okay, show me a cheetah running in microgravity.

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    • Ottomateeverything@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • shartworx@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That apostrophe, tho.

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That was my bad. :( :)

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      • don@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Better not do it again, or pretty much nothing will happen.

        You’ve been warned

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  • UncleBadTouch@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I have a pair that nest just behind me every year. Its awesome watching them hunt.

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    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That must be terrifying, to have a mating pair of raptors constantly at your rear. I’d be scared to turn around.

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      • UncleBadTouch@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        just gotta do it slowly, and not look like food

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  • Thade780@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Pretty sure my daughter runs faster when there’s a spider in her room.

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  • Zehzin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    A tiny tardigrade shot off a .50 bullet. It would probably survive too

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