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Fastest Animal
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Question from Mini-Ninja...
What would be the fastest animal in the world IF they were all the same size?
Oh to be 9yo again!!
I have tried googling but just got pages upon pages of rubbish.
What would be the fastest animal in the world IF they were all the same size?
Oh to be 9yo again!!
I have tried googling but just got pages upon pages of rubbish.
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I'd say ive you took a crocodile, shrunk it to the size of a mouse, that would perhaps be the quickest, if you added a fancy flight on the back of it and threw it really hard anyway
as the increased muscle and agility would be counter acted by the increase and weight, therefore countering all the effects of increasing/decreasing in size. so it'd be the same as the fastest animal today, which is..... the cheetah at aprox 70mph
(this is land animals only)
noooo they just hover and get blown about by the wind!
Imagine how annoying it would be to go camping and being surrounded by hundreds of those each one being 6ft...
What i want to know is; If a cheetah is clearly so fast, why does its pray try to run away? why don't the gazelles just get tooled up and ambush him? hey hey...
True, in that case i'd have at least expecting them to get some face paint to do some cheetah like patterns on each other to blend in.
I'm disappointed with their lack of originality
Dunno if you made the falcon as large as a planet however and let it have a contest with a cheetah (the size of a planet)
Also, it waits until the cheetah is nearly close and it does a u-turn because its a gazelle and it can. The cheetah is running too fast and its fatter than the gazelle so its harder for it to slow down so it takes him a while to turn. Either the gazelle then has enough time to run away, or if there's trees around it hides behind them and sneaks off. The cheetah is either out of stamina by then, or a bit pissed off at being outwitted by a gazelle and goes home
Gazelle - 1
Cheetah - 0
:chin: Perhaps its already happened, we're all fleas on the back of a giant cheetah...
Well I assume what he means is what is the fastest animal to scale. So you don't have to think about the physics, you just have to change the measurements to a "rat mile," a "dog mile," a "bird mile."
On second thoughts, give him a clip round the ear and tell him to stop asking stupid questions that confuse half the internet.
"The same size" != to scale.
let's continue to argue about that, if you bred a falcon that size ^^
So what your saying is that if a fast-as-fuck spider (And we all know the ones I'm talking about) was the size of a cheetah it wouldn't be able to outrun it?
And yes. That's how this question came about. One of the fast-as-fuck spiders came belting up our hallway and we all ran away screaming. Then Mini-Ninja asked that if the spider was the same size as us would it have been able to catch us. Which brought him onto the question.
Which would be the fastest animal if they were all the same size?
What about I'm with Stupids slant on things?
What is the fastest in comparison to time over relative distance?
And the fastest over time would have to be something like a blue whale, salmon, etc - as even compared to birds don't fish just move huge distances without ever resting?
I'm saying the opposite; Hellfire's explanation only works if they're shrunk/enlarged by the same amount, thereby retaining their speed/size ratio's.