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  2. Saharan silver ant - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Odontomachus - Wikipedia

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    Trap-jaw ants of this genus have the second-fastest moving predatory appendages within the animal kingdom, [2] after the dracula ant (Mystrium camillae). [8] One study of Odontomachus bauri recorded peak speeds between 126 and 230 km/h (78 and 143 mph), with the jaws closing within just 130 microseconds on average.

  4. Knot (unit) - Wikipedia

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    1 international knot = 1 nautical mile per hour (by definition), 1 852.000 metres per hour (exactly), [5] 0.51444 metres per second (approximately), 1.15078 miles per hour (approximately), 20.25372 inches per second (approximately) 1.68781 feet per second (approximately). The length of the internationally agreed nautical mile is 1 852 m.

  5. Orders of magnitude (speed) - Wikipedia

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    1 knot (nautical mile per ... 320 km/h or 200 mph is a parameter sometimes used in defining a supercar. ... Typical speed of a fast neutron. 30,000,000: 100,000,000:

  6. Earth's ant population of 20 quadrillion outnumbers ... - AOL

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    To say that ants outnumber people on Earth would be a gross understatement. Earth's ant population of 20 quadrillion outnumbers humans by 2.5 million times, study finds Skip to main content

  7. Odontomachus bauri - Wikipedia

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    Odontomachus bauri is a species of ponerinae ant known as trap jaw ants. The trap jaw consists of mandibles which contain a spring-loaded catch mechanism. [1]This mechanism permits the ants to accumulate energy before striking or releasing the mandibles rapidly.

  8. Ant - Wikipedia

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    Foraging ants travel distances of up to 200 metres (700 ft) from their nest [129] and scent trails allow them to find their way back even in the dark. In hot and arid regions, day-foraging ants face death by desiccation , so the ability to find the shortest route back to the nest reduces that risk.

  9. Anting (behavior) - Wikipedia

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    A black drongo in a typical anting posture. Anting is a maintenance behavior during which birds rub insects, usually ants, on their feathers and skin.The bird may pick up the insects in its bill and rub them on the body (active anting), or the bird may lie in an area of high density of the insects and perform dust bathing-like movements (passive anting).