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Originally Posted by greencinacheeks

does that consider flying horizontally??? or in a dive... because the Peregrine Falcon dives the fastest...does not fly persay...

I would say the fastest animal is the Spine-tailed Swift, an Asian bird that has been recorded as being able to fly at 106 mph. HOWEVER, the Peregrine falcon can DIVE much faster. It's reported diving after their prey at speeds of over 200 miles an hour.

~Nate

I hate to rain on this parade, but was going to say the same thing.
The Peregrine Falcon is called the fastest bird in the air (one was clocked at 244mph), but their true high speed glory is only during a hunting "stoop" and not during true powered flight.
greencinacheeks is correct that the Spinetailed Swift is faster under level powered flight. Sure the falcon's 244+MPH wins the gold in the "fastest thing in the air" category, but IMHO, it wins on a technicality. That's like saying geese are 100MPH birds. It's true, but only under very specific circumstances. Lots of private and commercial chartered flights have reported different species of geese doing around 100mph when they're migrating,.... but only when they hit the certain air currents.

Each environment has a leader, but even each creature type has it's champions.
The Cheetah is the fastest running animal on land at 60+mph, but if you took size out of the equation, those cats would get beat by a bug. The Japanese Tiger Beetle is so quick, it would blow the spots off a Cheetah. I believe I read somewhere that at scale, the Tiger Beetle runs at well over 350mph. It actually runs faster than it's "brain" can process what it's eyes are seeing and it has to keep stopping every so often so to get it's bearings.

[greencinacheeks]

I saw something on that bug online before!!! completely forgot about it!!!

~N

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DarwinTheSun and greencinacheecks you both get 5 points

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My question!! What are camruage horse's nickname??

[greencinacheeks]

my grandmother used have horses...i don;t know the nickname but i have heard of them before...all i know is that they are from france and that they are sometimes considered ponies for there small size. hmmm...

~N