Fastest animals
Fastest organism

Fastest animals

Section Title: Fastest organism
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Rank	Animal	Maximum speed	Class	Notes

1	Peregrine falcon	389 km/h (242 mph)	Flight-diving	The peregrine falcon is the fastest aerial animal, fastest animal in flight, fastest bird, and the overall fastest member of the animal kingdom.

2	Golden eagle	240–320 km/h (150–200 mph)	Flight-diving

3	White-throated needletail swift	169 km/h (105 mph)	Flight

4	Eurasian hobby	160 km/h (100 mph)	Flight	Can sometimes outfly the swift

5	Mexican free-tailed bat	160 km/h (100 mph)	Flight	It has been claimed to have the fastest horizontal speed (as opposed to stoop diving speed) of any animal.

6	Frigatebird	153 km/h (95 mph)	Flight	The frigatebird's high speed is helped by its having the largest wing-area-to-body-weight ratio of any bird.

7	Rock dove (pigeon)	148.9 km/h (92.5 mph)	Flight	Pigeons have been clocked flying 92.5 mph (148.9 km/h) average speed on a 400-mile (640 km) race.

8	Spur-winged goose	142 km/h (88 mph)	Flight

9	Black marlin	129 km/h (80 mph)	Swimming	A hooked black marlin has been recorded stripping line off a fishing reel at 120 feet per second (82 mph; 132 km/h).

10	Gyrfalcon	128 km/h (80 mph)	Flight

11	Grey-headed albatross	127 km/h (79 mph)	Flight

12	Cheetah	109.4–120.7 km/h (68.0–75.0 mph)	Land	Fastest land-animal, fastest feline, the cheetah can accelerate from 0 to 96.6 km/h (60.0 mph) in under three seconds, though endurance is limited.

13	Sailfish	109.19 km/h (67.85 mph)	Flight-swimming

14	Anna's hummingbird	98.27 km/h (61.06 mph)	Flight

15	Swordfish	97 km/h (60 mph)	Swimming

16	Pronghorn	88.5 km/h (55.0 mph)	Land

17	Springbok	88 km/h (55 mph)	Land

18	Blue wildebeest	80.5 km/h (50.0 mph)	Land

19	Lion	80.5 km/h (50.0 mph)	Land

20	Blackbuck	80 km/h (50 mph)	Land

Sentence(s)

The fastest animal in the sea is the black marlin, with a recorded speed of 129 km/h (80 mph).

final_sentence: The fastest animal in the sea is the black marlin, with a recorded speed of 129 km/h (80 mph).