They've been timed at 6 seconds. They don't really have a chance to get up to speed over such a short distance. I'd imagine sub 6 would be possible, chasing prey. However, a cheetah is not really built like a 100 meter sprinter. Perhaps a more heavy muscled cat, like a Jaguar, could run sub 6. Or a Gazelle, the cheetah's prey. They seem like they could jump 100 meters in 5 seconds.
Uh, no. Cheetah is the fastest.
I vote for Bolt to win in a controlled environment (responding to the gun, staying in the lane).
Hello,
A cheetah can sustain 70mph for around 700 yards. It takes the prize for fastest animal over shorter distances.
The pronghorn antelope can hit 60pmh, and can maintain 30+mph for hours on end. If the Cheetah and pronghorn were running side by side, and if the track was longer than a quarter of a mile, the pronghorn would win it, no contest.
Raging Bull wrote:
The pronghorn antelope... can maintain 30+mph for hours on end.
Source? I thought I read that the Arabian Horse is the fastest marathon-distance land animal, which can run 15 miles per hour for about 4 hours. The siberian husky is the only other animal that's recorded to have run under the human marathon record (and only in very cold temperatures).
Raging Bull wrote:
Hello,
A cheetah can sustain 70mph for around 700 yards. It takes the prize for fastest animal over shorter distances.
The pronghorn antelope can hit 60pmh, and can maintain 30+mph for hours on end. If the Cheetah and pronghorn were running side by side, and if the track was longer than a quarter of a mile, the pronghorn would win it, no contest.
You just contradicted yourself. A cheetah can sustain 70mph for 700 yards and then lose to a pronghorn in longer than 440 yds/quarter mile?
you didn't say land but
"The peregrine is the fastest bird on record reaching horizontal cruising speeds of 65-90 kph ( 40-55 mph) and not exceeding speeds of 105-110 kph (65-68 mph). When stooping, the peregrine flies at much greater speeds, however, varying from 160-440 kmh (99-273 mph)!"
did u mean 700 feet? wrote:
Raging Bull wrote:Hello,
A cheetah can sustain 70mph for around 700 yards. It takes the prize for fastest animal over shorter distances.
The pronghorn antelope can hit 60pmh, and can maintain 30+mph for hours on end. If the Cheetah and pronghorn were running side by side, and if the track was longer than a quarter of a mile, the pronghorn would win it, no contest.
You just contradicted yourself. A cheetah can sustain 70mph for 700 yards and then lose to a pronghorn in longer than 440 yds/quarter mile?
He didn't contradict himself necessarily.
Maybe he meant that the track would have to have a lower radius of curvature. Or maybe he considers 1.75 laps to still be 1 lap. Or maybe between 440 and 700 yards, there is a tossup.
Any of these explanations seem obvious and satisfactory to me.
jsjsjksk wrote:
Or maybe between 440 and 700 yards, there is a tossup.
If the cheetah can maintain 10mph faster than the pronghorn for 700 yards, my money's on the cheetah. Probably up to 800 too, if it trains hard.
Many birds can fly faster than a peregrine in level flight. Some water birds approach or exceed 70 mph and there is a species of Swift that tops 100.
Also a racehorse did a 22 mile hour record. It could have walked the last four and still beat the human record.
Falcons are amazing for the control they have at those speeds, but Redbull dropped someone out of the sky at over 600 mph. Not the same thing.Now, a Falcon can also fly vea fast in a straight line. If one could take off from the ground, and outpace a Cheetah over 100 meters that might just count. I think a hummingbird would beat them both though.
prezidential wrote:
you didn't say land but
"The peregrine is the fastest bird on record reaching horizontal cruising speeds of 65-90 kph ( 40-55 mph) and not exceeding speeds of 105-110 kph (65-68 mph). When stooping, the peregrine flies at much greater speeds, however, varying from 160-440 kmh (99-273 mph)!"
den bosch wrote:
Raging Bull wrote:The pronghorn antelope... can maintain 30+mph for hours on end.
Source? I thought I read that the Arabian Horse is the fastest marathon-distance land animal, which can run 15 miles per hour for about 4 hours. The siberian husky is the only other animal that's recorded to have run under the human marathon record (and only in very cold temperatures).
There are a few other animals that could probably better the marathon record. Kangaroo, Ostrich, various canines, gazelles, antelopes. It'd just be a matter of making sure they're well fed, hydrated, then chasing them for two hours.
Nobody answered the question though. It's like when someone mentions the 100 meters, everyone's brain shuts off because they think it's about who is the "fastest". If Maurice Greene could break Carl Lewis' record without running a higher top speed, perhaps a quickly accelerating animal could run 100 meters faster than a cheetah.
To put it another way, a Saleen S7 Twin Turbo finishes a quarter mile in 10.5 sec @ 145 mph (233 km/h). A Lamborghini Aventador finishes a quarter mile in 10.4 sec @ only 136 mph (219 km/h)
No - a cheetah has amazing acceleration - they can hit 60 mph in about 2-3 seconds; right in line with the highest performance cars .. there's actually a great story in this month's Nat Geo about cheetah(s?)
As for the pronghorn, there's speculation that the cheetah actually lived in N. America, and that's why the pronghorn runs so well - there's no other native predator in the US that might nurture that kind of speed (which is a little silly; a cheetah, no matter how fast, never ran after a pronghorn for endless miles, but that's the ecological discussion, anyway).
Oh .. and I'd suspect that if the 2 were lined up on a straight track to run, the cheetah would soon enough kill the pronghorn within the first 400 yards; race over. Results as below:
1 - Cheetah
DNF - Pronghorn.
Pronghorns evolved with wolves as their main predator. Wolves can actually run quite fast for several miles. Many times they tire out their prey, then surround it, and take it down.
Wolves can keep up 8-10mph for hours on end and have been known to cover 60 miles in a single night. They have been clocked at speeds of over 40 miles per hour for a distance of several miles.
Wolves don't run anywhere near the speed of pronghorn, and are not predators of pronghorn. In fact, with the reintroduction of wolves in the northern rockies, pronghorn populations have INCREASED; Coyotes prey on young pronghorn. and wolves kill coyotes.
Raging Bull wrote:
Pronghorns evolved with wolves as their main predator. Wolves can actually run quite fast for several miles. Many times they tire out their prey, then surround it, and take it down.
Wolves can keep up 8-10mph for hours on end and have been known to cover 60 miles in a single night. They have been clocked at speeds of over 40 miles per hour for a distance of several miles.
I've heard of the American Cheetah theory. Wolves may explain the pronghorn's endurance, but perhaps some form of cat explains their speed.
.. You do know 400 yards is a lot more than 100 meters right? 60 miles per hour= 1 mile per minute. That's 3.73 seconds for 100 meters, which a cheetah could do from a running start. From a static start, something would only need to average 38 miles per hour to break 6 seconds and beat the cheetah's time. A Siberian tiger runs 50. Find one of those that's leaned off it's winter fat and I bet it beats the cheetah.
A constant 40 mph is still quite a good speed, and would keep pronghorn on their toes, so to speak.
I'd be surprised if wolves didn't go after pronghorn.
Wolves kill coyotes but don't hunt them for food.
peregrine falcon is an animal. can dive to speeds near 180mph. (i assume you meant a land animal however, since this is a running site)
but technically, i'm right.
troll on
J.R. wrote:
A constant 40 mph is still quite a good speed, and would keep pronghorn on their toes, so to speak.
I'd be surprised if wolves didn't go after pronghorn.
Wolves kill coyotes but don't hunt them for food.
Well, you'll be surprised then .. wolves are not natural predators of healthy pronghorn. I mentioned the coyotes thing to illustrate how things work. No, wolves don't (generally) eat coyotes. But they have drastically reduced coyote numbers in most areas they've returned to - and pronghorn #'s have similarly increased .. because coyotes, not wolves, are a natural predator of pronghorn.
hitmonlee wrote:
You do know 400 yards is a lot more than 100 meters right? 60 miles per hour= 1 mile per minute. That's 3.73 seconds for 100 meters, which a cheetah could do from a running start. From a static start, something would only need to average 38 miles per hour to break 6 seconds and beat the cheetah's time. A Siberian tiger runs 50. Find one of those that's leaned off it's winter fat and I bet it beats the cheetah.
Not even close - as I said, a cheetah can hit 60mph, from a standing start, in 2-3 seconds. There's not another animal close to that, on land.
Raging Bull wrote:
Pronghorns evolved with wolves as their main predator. Wolves can actually run quite fast for several miles. Many times they tire out their prey, then surround it, and take it down.
Wolves can keep up 8-10mph for hours on end and have been known to cover 60 miles in a single night. They have been clocked at speeds of over 40 miles per hour for a distance of several miles.
I really wish folks would stop spouting nonsense. Wolves' absolute top sprinting speed is around 40 miles per hour. Their multi-mile chases are run at around 25 MPH. Wolves do not prey upon pronghorn because they have absolutely no chance of catching the adults.
Sticking to running - the cheetah is the clear winner for anything up to the 800. From 1500 on up the pronghorn is tops. At none of these distances is any other animal close at all.