what is the fastest animal in the world?

Answer 1

cheetah

Answer 2

The cheetah is the fastest land animal in the world with a top speed of 70 mi/hr in short bursts up to 500 yards. They can go from rest to their top speed in under 3 seconds.

Answer 3

The Cheetah.

It is the fastest of all land animals and can reach speeds of up to 110 kilometres per hour (70 mph), in short bursts up to 460 metres (500 yards), and has the ability to accelerate from 0 to 110 kilometres per hour (70 mph) in three seconds, faster than most supercars.

The word "cheetah" is derived from the Sanskrit word chitrakāyaḥ चित्रकायः meaning "variegated body", via the Hindi cītā चीता.[5]

Answer 4

The fastest land animal is the cheetah. The fastest bird is the peregrine falcon. The fastest water creature is the barracuda.

Answer 5

Cheetah, as stated above is the fastest LAND animal. Pereguine Falcon is the fastest animal.

Answer 6

Land animal:
The cheetah can attain speeds up to 70-72 mph.

Bird:
The peregrine Falcon is the fastest bird on record reaching horizontal cruising speeds of 65-90 kmh ( 40-55 mph) and not exceeding speeds of 105-110 kmh (65-68 mph). When swooping, the peregrine flies at much greater speeds however, varying from 160-440 kmh (99-273 mph)!

Marine creature:
According to SeaWorld, the fastest marine organism is the Blue fin tuna, which is capable of reaching speeds of up to 55 miles per hour for short periods.

Insect:
The fastest insects on land are certain large tropical cockroaches, of the family Dictyoptera, registered a record speed of 3.36 m.p.h., or 50 body lengths per second.

Answer 7

Since you didn't specify "under their own power" - - -

Monkeys "Able" and "Baker" became the first monkeys to survive spaceflight after their 1959 flight. On May 28, 1959, aboard Jupiter IRBM AM-18, were a 7-pound (3.18 kg) American-born rhesus monkey, "Able", and an 11 ounce (310 g) squirrel monkey from Peru, "Baker". The monkeys rode in the nosecone of the missile to an altitude of 360 miles (579 km) and a distance of 1,700 miles (2,735 km) down the Atlantic Missile Range from Cape Canaveral, Florida. They withstood forces 38 times the normal pull of gravity and were weightless for about 9 minutes. A top speed of 10,000 mph (16,093 km/h) was reached during their 16 minute flight.

Answer 8

Cheetah is the fastest land aminal, but only over a short distance.

The swift, in a power dive, can hit 200 mph

Answer 9

~umm, well the fastest land animal is the CHEETAH.
~the fastest animal in the air (is that what u call it) is like the peregrine falcon
~ The fastest water animal is the sailfish

Answer 10

cheetah can run at times and at short distances up to 75 mph