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How Fast Is Tiger Beetle?
2.50 m/s
9.00 km/h · 5.59 mph
Tiger beetles sprint at 9 km/h — an extraordinary 170 body lengths per second. They actually run so fast they go temporarily blind, having to stop to let their visual processing catch up before locating prey again.
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Did you know?
Tiger beetles run so fast they outpace their own vision — and have to pause periodically to relocate prey.
How it compares
- Proportionally the fastest runner in the animal kingdom
- 1.7× faster than a walking human
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