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What's it
like to be
an animal?

If you're six feet tall, 10 miles per hour probably doesn't feel very fast. But what if you were just six inches tall, like a squirrel? It would feel quite a bit faster. This site shows the actual speeds of animals and how fast they would be going if they were your size.

Animals: land air water insect
feet meters
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.

Insects

dragonfly dragonfly
Anax parthenope top speed 29 km/h
feels like 522 km/h
horse-fly horse-fly
Hybomitra hinei top speed 145 km/h
feels like 6525 km/h
housefly housefly
Musca domestica top speed 7.2 km/h
feels like 1305 km/h
mosquito mosquito
Aedes albopictus top speed 2 km/h
feels like 225 km/h
Southern Dart Southern Dart
Ocybadistes walkeri top speed 48.4 km/h
feels like 2178 km/h
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Site concept, design, and creation by Alex Reisner. Source code and original content available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license. Animal descriptions are from Wikipedia and some silhouettes are from All Silhouettes.