what is the quickest animal?

Answer 1

If compared to all the animals in the world, then it's the peregrine falcon.

If land only: cheetah
If air only: peregrine falcon
If sea only: blue whale

Answer 2

The cheetah is the fastest land animal. Peregrine falcons, however, can match a cheetah's top speed of around 70 mph when in direct pursuit of prey and can dive at speeds over 150 mph (probably closer to 200 mph).

Answer 3

Peregrine Falcon

Answer 4

Peregrine falcon can dive at 420 kpm (260 mph).

Of course, man goes a lost faster, but flying in supersonic aircraft is somewhat like cheating.

And, for the record, Botany is the category for questions about plants, not animals.

Answer 5

On land, I believe it is the cheetah. In the ocean I think it is a sailfish. Which species I do not know, but they achieve around 50 knots. don't think any birds get faster than those two, although with the right tail winds, I have seen pelicans coast/glide along at about 40mph.

Answer 6

The fastest speed ever recorded by an animal is a peregrine falcon in a hunting dive, over 250 mph.

Answer 7

cheetah...Cheetah, common name for a large cat, found mainly in Africa but with small populations in Iran, that has a similar body weight to the leopard (50 to 60 kg/110 to 130 lb) but has a longer body, much longer legs, and a smaller head. The head and body, without the tail, are about 1.1 to 1.5 m (3y to 5 ft) long, and the claws are short and lack the sheath that covers retracted claws in other cat species. The coat is yellowish-brown with black spots; cubs also have a spotted coat, but over the back and head is a mantle of long, silky, grey hair that remains for up to four months. Female cheetahs are solitary animals, except when with their cubs. Mature males generally travel alone or in groups of two to three males, often siblings, joining females only at mating time. The female cheetah’s pregnancy lasts three months. She gives birth to two to four cubs, which stay with her for between 13 and 20 months.

The body of the cheetah is adapted for taking prey by running rather than by leaping from ambush, as with the leopard, and the cheetah hunts by sight rather than by smell. Over short distances it is the fastest land-living animal that exists, being able to attain speeds up to about 110 km/h (68 mph). It hunts by day, feeding mainly on antelopes. The cheetah was formerly trained and used for hunting in Pakistan and India; it is now extinct or endangered in much of its range. In tropical Africa, where it lives on open plains, the cheetah is an endangered species. Wild cheetahs are highly inbred, as evidenced by the extreme lack of genetic variation in modern populations.

Scientific classification: The cheetah belongs to the family Felidae. It is classified as Acinonyx jubatus.

Answer 8

the quickest animal is a cheetah.

Answer 9

I have no idea what the fastest animal in water is, but the fastest land animal is the cheetah.

BONUS: If you also want to know the slowest and the strongest, they are the snail and the rhinocerous beetle.

Answer 10

peregrine falcon
They have been clocked at about 180 mph.

Cheetah is the fastest land animal at about 70 mph.
Sailfish is the fastest water animal at about 70 mph.