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'Sarah,' the Cincinnati Zoo's eight-year-old female cheetah, is now the world's fastest land mammal. She sprinted 100 meters in only 6.16 seconds. (Sept. 10)

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  • Look at 4 seconds, the Cheetah slows down as it gets closer to the object and than they pull it away. I believe a Cheetah could run a 100m closer to 4 seconds. If a human can run at 9.5 with two legs at 30 mph and a 4 legged cat can run at 75mph than of course the time would be less than half of the human

  • id race him if i had a jet

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  • u dumbs read description!!! it s a female!!!

  • @iapalategi This requires rapid acceleration though. You're taking the 100 meters and dividing it by the time...but you aren't factoring the in the necessary acceleration. She does not immediately run 60-70 miles per hour...a good section of the 100 meters is her speeding up. If a horse had to start from a standstill against a cheetah starting from a standstill the cheetah would blow the horse away...

  • they need about 3 seconds to get a speed of 100km/h - in that time they run about 60% of the 100 meters.

    So they would run a 200 m range in about 9 seconds

  • @WildKyote22 his time was 8 seconds lol cheetah beat him by 2 XD

  • @Skylara Apparently the keeper (a newer keeper) gave me bad info. It was PLANNED for her to run at the Speedway, but the zoo changed their minds.

  • A couple of interesting tidbits that I learned about Sarah at the zoo yesterday:

    - Female cheetahs are generally faster than males. They evolved to be since they have to care for the young and cannot risk missed meals.

    - The location in the video is the farm that the Zoo runs the cheetahs on for exercise. Her actual record-breaking run was done at the Kentucky Speedway.

  • @diderr01 No need for a Gender test, the Cheetah's name is Sarah. :)

  • Usain Bolt might give this cheetah a run for its money... haha

  • Balco and steroids all the way.

  • @H1TMANactual Fastest human speed has been clocked at just over 27mph so I doubt muscles would be tearing away haha might be quite sore afterword

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