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It is the fastest of the world’s 12,000 known ant species, clocking a velocity of 855 millimetres per second (over 1.9 miles per hour or 3.1 kilometres per hour). It can travel a length 108 times its own body length per second, a feat topped only by two other creatures, the Australian tiger beetle Rivacindela hudsoni and the California ...
The bird that can achieve the greatest airspeed is the peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus), able to exceed 320 km/h (200 mph) in its dives. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] A close relative of the common swift, the white-throated needletail ( Hirundapus caudacutus ), is commonly reported as the fastest bird in level flight with a reported top speed of 169 km/h (105 ...
The flight of ants seen in Boston on Monday is called a nuptial flight, according to Emily Stolarski of Mass Wildlife, an event during the breeding period where winged females and males leave ...
160 km/h (100 mph) [14] Flight It has been claimed to have the fastest horizontal speed (as opposed to stoop diving speed) of any animal. 7 Frigatebird: 153 km/h (95 mph) Flight The frigatebird's high speed is helped by its having the largest wing-area-to-body-weight ratio of any bird. 8 Rock dove (pigeon) 148.9 km/h (92.5 mph) [15] Flight
The pavement ant is dark brown to blackish, and 2.5–4 millimeters (0.10–0.16 in) long. A colony is composed of workers, alates, and a queen. Workers do have a small stinger, which can cause mild discomfort in humans but is essentially harmless. Alates, or new queen ants and drones, have wings, and are at least twice as large as the workers ...
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1 knot (nautical mile per hour) 10 0: 1.2: ... 320 km/h or 200 mph is a parameter sometimes used in defining a ... Typical speed of a fast neutron. 30,000,000: ...