Speed of Animals

wahoo

Acanthocybium solandri
length weight top speed (swimming) feels like
6'6" 176.4lb 47.8mph 43.1mph

The wahoo (Acanthocybium solandri) is a dark blue scombrid fish found worldwide in tropical and subtropical seas. Its speed and high-quality flesh make it a prize game fish. In Hawaii, the fish is known as ono. Hispanic areas of the Caribbean and Central America call it Peto.

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Graph: top speed feels like

Imagine what it's like for a tiny insect to jump and fly as quickly as they do. They might cover 40 body lengths in a second. To a six-foot person that's 164 mph. This site tries to understand how it feels to move like a fly, a squirrel, a cat, a rhinocerous, or a falcon.

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wahoo wahoo
Acanthocybium solandri top speed 47.8 mph
feels like 43.1 mph

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