Top 10 - The World's Fastest Animals - OneKind
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Some animals are perfectly designed to be the ultimate speed machines.
Some of these fly through the air, others swim through water and some run on land. Most of the fastest animals are birds so our list below includes a selection of the fastest of all these different types of animals. Here are 10 of the fastest animals in the world.
Peregrine Falcon
The Peregrine Falcon is the fastest bird, and in fact the fastest animal on the planet, when in its hunting dive, the stoop, in which it soars to a great height, then dives steeply at speeds of over 322kph (200mph). It reaches horizontal cruising speeds of up to 90 kph (56mph).
Find out more fascinating information on Peregrine Falcons in our Animals A-Z section.
Picture Credit: Juan Lacruz