What animal wins a race that's 100m in water then 100m on land

A hippo. They can run pretty fast over 100m and are onviously fast in the water.

Water Runner wrote:

Jesus

He was a Galiwalker.

North American Giant Red Clam.

Has no one mentiond a dog? I have a lab/border collie cross. I'm a decent swimmer but my dog can out swim me and he'll run next to my truck at 40mph pretty easily.

So yeah, I go with my dog Brew or Kim Smith (the model, not the runner).

you must be a poor swimmer and i call BS on the second part. just any old dog can't run 40 mph. i like the key deer.

12345 wrote:

1) Not nearly as fast as a skinnier person. WAY too much mass to accelerate

2) I'm not saying bears aren't fast. Just that their acceleration wouldn't be able to match that of a horse or river otter. In fact, the only way the bear would win would be if it was WAY ahead out of the water. But with the river otter, with its good swimming ability and acceleration, would thrash any bear. The only reason horses and moose are in consideration is because they are decent swimmers and very fast on land.

Definitely faster than most skinnier people, and probably faster than most people on this board. Sure he has lots of mass, but he happens to be an expert at accelerating lots of mass. The key to explosive speed is not power, and it's not weight, it's power-to-weight ratio. Reese Hoffa has plenty of it. Bears have more. I think you're way underestimating their explosiveness.

random wrote:

Has no one mentiond a dog? I have a lab/border collie cross. I'm a decent swimmer but my dog can out swim me and he'll run next to my truck at 40mph pretty easily.

So yeah, I go with my dog Brew or Kim Smith (the model, not the runner).

obnoxious. the best greyhounds will top out just above 40mph. so no.

the orca is the fastest mammal through the water now those thingsare pretty big and they can leap agood way out the water-also they are known to be intelligent and easy to train so i reckon you could train it to leap out of the pool at its top speed of 48 mph fly for about 50-m then use this momentum to slide across the finish line in my estimation about 10 /11 seconds total although it would have to be wearing some kind of super slidy protecctive bib which may be against the spirit of this competition

AWESOME.

I think we have a winner. I'm picturing all these animals lined up with people betting and expecting this or that; otters, bears, deer, hippos, etc. Then a huge-ass whale comes flying out of the water before anything else is halfway through the swim and slides across the grass at 30mph.

I think the killer whale would slide to a stop at the fifty meter mark and have to be lifted from the course by crane.

dune runner wrote:

the orca is the fastest mammal through the water now those thingsare pretty big and they can leap agood way out the water-also they are known to be intelligent

Thats why they routinely die beached on the shore when they completely leave the water?

I'd be really, really impressed if an Orca was able to leap 50 meters out of the water. That's a long way.

LamePoster wrote:

I'd be really, really impressed if an Orca was able to leap 50 meters out of the water. That's a long way.

We had better tell NASA about this uber-leaping ability. They need a replacement for the Space Shuttle.

On water and ice a penguin would probably win. Or maybe a swordtail fish that slides and flops a little...

I don't think frictionless surfaces are what people have in mind here.

my vote is on lance... he was a triathlete back in the day you know!

Bearshark for sure. No contest.

Water speed: 32 knots

Land Speed: 43mph Hairy, 56mph shaved

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The sex panther…60% of the time it wins all the time.