SortStack #2052 — 2032-01-21
By speed · Order from slowest to fastest.
- A crawling slug 30 m/h
A slug glides on a ribbon of self-made slime, which lets it cross even a razor's edge unharmed.
- A chicken foraging 3.6 km/h
Chickens can recognise over a hundred individual faces, both other birds and the humans who feed them.
- A person jogging 10.8 km/h
Humans are among the best endurance runners on Earth, able to outlast horses over very long distances in heat.
- A running gray wolf 57 km/h
Wolves can travel over 30 kilometres in a single day while hunting across their vast territories.
- A Cessna light aircraft 220 km/h
The Cessna 172 is the most-produced plane in history and the trainer that taught millions of pilots to fly.
- The X-15 rocket plane 7.3K km/h
The X-15 flew to the edge of space, and several of its pilots earned astronaut wings without leaving a runway.