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Dinner Table Conversation: Who’s Faster: A Cheetah Or An Ant?



If you’re a fan of animal news, this story is for you. Do you know what the world’s fastest animal is? The Cheetah? Yes, it’s the fastest, and pretty impressive at that. But if we asked which animal can move its body the fastest, then that’s a different answer. You see, the fastest moving body part isn’t necessarily the feet; it might just be wings … or … jaws!

Indeed, the animal with the fastest moving body part comes from the Mystrium camillae species, otherwise known as the Dracula ant found in Southeast Asia and Australia. Its jaws (or mandibles, if we’re being technical) can click at 201 miles per hour. That’s about five thousand times faster than the blink of an eye. Ouch! Sounds like a pretty painful experience for the prey caught between those jaws!

So what’s the point of this discovery? Well, the ant’s jaw movement is unique because instead of keeping its jaw open wide and then snapping it shut, the Dracula ant starts with a closed jaw and then builds pressure, which causes the super-quick motion … much like the pressure that lets you snap your fingers.

The next step for researchers? To see how the ant uses these speedy powers in nature. Perhaps humans could use the ant’s jaw movements as inspiration to improve the way we use or build things in the future!

Now that we know which animal moves its body the fastest, inquiring minds want to know … who’s faster in the comic book world: Superman or The Flash?

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