Relative animal speeds

Relative Animals speeds,

The maximum speeds of a range of different animals,

Peregrine Falcon in a display to get mates. 225 MPH, but 62.5 MPH in level flight

Golden Eagle 150 MPH in a dive bomb downwards

Cheetah 70 MPH over 100 Metres

Sailfish 68 MPH

Pronghorn Antelope 55 MPH Maximum speed animals, some say 61 MPH,

Grant's Gazelle 47 MPH, as a maxinum,

Yellowfish tuna 47 MPH

Ostrich 45 MPH, some say 40 MPH

Elk 45 MPH

Race Horse, average over 440 yards 43.26 MPH

Greyhound average over 375 Metres 41.72 MPH

Young Mature female Eastern Grey Kangaroo 40 MPH

Hyena 40 MPH

A dinosaur expert's best estimate in the decade of the 2000s, of the fastest dinosaur 40 MPH, They were ostrich shaped, and could run, and catch smaller animals,

American Free Tailed bat 35-40 MPH

Blue Wildebeeste 37 MPH

Dragonfly 36 MPH

Jackal 35 MPH

Mule deer 35 MPH

Killer Whale 34.5 MPH

Giraffe 32 MPH

Dometic Cat 30 MPH

Grizzly Bear 30 MPH

Black Rhinoceros 28 MPH

Man 27.89 Over a 15 Yards flying start

Common dolphin 27.6 MPH

African elephant 24.5 MPH

Arabian Camel 20 MPH

Black Mamba Snake 20 MPH

Pacific Leatherback Turtle 18 MPH

Gentoo Penguin 17 MPH

Squirrel 12 MPH

Sauropods (Massive 4 legged dinosaurs like Brachiosaurus) 12 MPH, probably moving at 2.5 MPH, normally, though this is just a estimate of the decade of the 2000s, Paleontolgists, and this may of course be wildly wrong.

Smaller Bi-pedal dinosaurs probably could reach 12 MPH,

Pig 11 MPH

Chicken 9 MPH

Honey-Bee 7.26 MPH

House Rat 6 MPH

Common Flea 4.5 MPH

Centipede 1.12 MPH

Giant Tortoise 0.23 MPH, some say only 0.17 MPH,

Three Toed Sloth 0.15 MPH

Neptune Crab 0.00939 "0ver 101.5 miles in 29 Years

I got most of the information of most of these species from the Guiness Book of Answers. I also got the speeds of some other animals off other books, and sites,

Here are some sites on the subject of nature

First of all, my picture of some terrorbird, by a person, but there are more sites below,

A site on giant sloths, with mentions of animals that have been alive during the era of human history, that have gone extinct, from them to many other great species

A graph of all human history very interesting, to the story of humankind, brilliant, saying the great stories, and animals, humans saw.

100s of Great Websites, on 100s of great subjects

The Last Neanderthals

A site on islands, around the world, talking of them, as if they are lost worlds, you could go back to this page.

A site on dangerous animals, such as which are bigger than people, and which are poisonous

A site on magical things in nature, like herbs and such, and more exiting things,

Animal sounds in foreign languages

A site listing the strange and unsual animals of the world

A Multiple Choice quiz on animals