Who is the fastest animal in the world?

The sloth is hanging on a tree, substituting the abdomenthe sun, almost all my life. Even in bad weather, during the rain, he continues to hang there. Therefore, it is believed that he is the slowest animal in the world, or a champion who won the slowness of even the beloved tortoise.

The complete opposite is the cheetah,because he is the fastest animal in the world. The structure of his body is such that it allows him to develop speed in two seconds to seventy five kilometers per hour. In three seconds the cheetah is already rushing at a speed of one hundred and ten kilometers per hour, which even the inventors of many racing cars can not achieve.

Researchers managed to record an amazingevent, when the cheetah in the pursuit of prey in just twenty seconds, covered a distance of six hundred and fifty meters, that is, developed a speed of up to one hundred and twenty kilometers per hour. But this is not an absolute record yet. As a result of numerous studies, the fastest animal in the world is the cheetah, which has developed speed to one hundred and twenty-eight kilometers per hour.

In this regard, it is worth emphasizing, what otherrecords set cheetahs? First, these mammalian animals easily jump over barriers on their way up to four and a half meters in height. Secondly, they in one jump can jump a ravine in width in seven - eight meters.

Today cheetahs are listed in the Red Book, becausethat, like many other animals in Russia and in the world, they are on the verge of extinction. The fact is that, like other types of cats, cheetahs easily tame and get used to people, even when they are adults. Even three thousand years before our time, they were used by hunters of different countries, including Egypt, India. The rulers of the Moscow principality and Kievan Rus also kept cheetahs for hunting needs. In addition, animals have a very valuable and beautiful fur. Well, the third cause of extinction of cheetahs is a lack of food at will, because environmental difficulties have affected many animals that serve as prey for cheetahs.

That's why today is the fastest animal in the worldoccurs in the wild only in deaf African places or protected areas in some areas of Central or Central Asia. As an inhabitant of the savanna and the desert, the cheetah chooses a terrain with a poorly intersected landscape. These are predators who prefer to hunt in the afternoon, they do not use ambushes, as do other cats, and achieve success only by persecution. Having sniffed prey, cheetahs quietly run after it until the distance between the victim and the hunter is reduced to twenty-five meters. At this time, the animal concentrates all its energy and

makes a short and triumphant race. Overtaking his prey, the cheetah knocks her down with her front paw. The victim rolls somersault, and he grabs her fangs by the throat.

And, the fastest animal in the world at the timepersecution achieves such a force that its energy is sufficient to knock down more massive fauna representatives during the hunt than it does. The short race lasts about one minute, but it takes so much energy that after the chase the cheetah needs a rest before the condemned meal.