How slow is a turtle?
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On land, slower than a tortoise but faster than a rabbit.  In the sea, faster than you and me.
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Normal cruising speed is about 30-40 miles per hour.  However, if they're being chased by a hawk, they get easily get up to the 65-70 mph range for a while.  With a wind behind them, pigeons have also been clocked over the distance (hundreds of miles) at over 50 mph and in rare instances up to 80 mph.\n\nThere are many people who enjoy racing pigeons and speeds are well documented since they birds are clocked over the distance and have been for many, many years.\n\nPigeons are some of the fastest flyers around - in level flight - and only some of the shorebirds can equal them.
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Really depends on the species because for instance you have the sea snakes that really spend all their time in the water, and are quite graceful. Then you have the black mamba which is the fastest land snake, and man is it quick. But then you have those large bodied snakes like the green anaconda where they tend to spend more time in the water because the water helps them to support their own body, and so while they are not exactly graceful on either land or water, they are not slow in either case.
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Fastest Animal: Peregrine Falcon, a bird (100-200 miles per hour)\n\nFastest Marine Animal: Blue whale (30 miles per hour)\n\nFastest Land Animal: Cheetah (70 miles per hour)\n\nFastest Fish: Sailfish (68 miles per hour)\n\nFastest Bird: Peregrine falcon (100-200 miles per hour)\n\nFastest Insect: Dragonfly (36 miles per hour)
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A cheetah can go up to about 70 MPH, but cheetahs are sprinters, not cross-country racers. They can go at this speed for a short amount of time only. Due to the wind speed and certain variables, they may go slower and for a shorter amount of time.
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For small hummers like Ruby-throated, about 55 times per second. Normal flight speed is about 25 MPH.
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Pretty fast...i would say around 40...
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It's largely about torque, and humans, in the way they are designed structurally (bone structure, muscle strength, and position of tendons- which connect the muscles to the bones) cannot produce enough torque to translate into the speed of a cheetah.\n\nOur arms and legs are really levers. A lever turns about a fulcrum. This is similar to the way a see-saw is designed. If you have ever sat on one, you will have noticed that the farther away from the fulcrum you are (the fulcrum being the center point), the more force- (or what we call  "torque") you can generate. While cheetahs do have strong muscles (the size of the muscle also counts), they have the advantage that their tendons are attached farther away from their "fulcrums", which are the joints. Just as with the see-saw principle, they can generate more torque with the same amount of force, which means that even if a cheetah and a human had the same muscle mass, the cheetah would be much stronger, and faster.\n\nCheetahs are also able to generate a substantial amount of power for short bursts of time. This has to do with the muscle type. All animals have two major types of muscle: slow twitch and fast twitch. The fast twitch muscles are capable of enormous bursts of power for short duration, while slow twitch provide more steady amounts of power over prolonged distances.  Fast twitch muscles generally do not use aerobic (oxygen-based) energy, instead relying on the conversion of sugars like glucose in the absence of oxygen. Cheetahs have a higher percentage of these fast-twitch muscles and they can generate enormous amounts of power for te short bursts they require to catch prey. But their evolution has cost them because they are otherwise very thin and lack bulk- meaning they can expend up to half of their energy reserves in one hunt alone. Had they had more of the slow-twitch muscles, they would be better able to conserve their energy, but at the cost of speed and power.
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yes\n\nmight be a bit slower, but you can enjoy it anyway...
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An angry turtle...\n\nSeriously, I recommend stopping by the library or bookstore and finding a field guide in the science or nature section.  Without knowing where you are from, it's really difficult for me to say.\n\nSnapping turtles do hiss, but they do not (necessarily) have yellow in their heads.  Painted turtles are very common and have yellow on their head but I've never heard one hiss.\n\nLooking at the guide (linked below), I would check out the Eastern Box Turtle - a lot of yellow on the head, an quite ill-tempered...
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i would imagine a scientist would do tests that show that a turtle is alert and able to respond, such as:\n\nvisual stimuli - put something near the turtle where it can see it - does it respond to the appearance of this item?\naural stimuli - make a noise that the turtle can hear - does it respond  to hearing that noise?\nscent stimuli - introduce a smell that the turtle can detect - does it respond?\ntactile stimuli - if you touch the turtle, does it respond?\ntemperature stimuli - if you put something hot or cold next to it, does it respond?\n\nthere are probably standard tests based on one or more of those types - and different times associated with level of alertness. clearly a sleeping turtle might not be very alert of something placed next to it.
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Greetings,\n\nCheck out this link: http://www.allturtles.com/turtle_species/slider.php\n\nBasically these turtles live all over the world in fresh water ecosytems.  They are listed as one of the top invader species.  Pick a fresh water ecosystem and go from there.\n\nFish, crayfish, birds, etc.\n\n-matt
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Fastest Animal peregrine falcon, a bird (100-200 miles per hour)\nFastest Marine Animal sailfish (68 miles per hour) \nFastest Land Animal cheetah (70 miles per hour)\n\nThe first link is wrong. It meant the fastest marine mammal is a blue whale. Sailfish are faster.
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Sorta.\n\nSome turtles are known to practice 'cloacal breathing'- absorbing oxygen through air in the cloaca- the single opening used for excretion, urination, and reproduction. This is documented in the Fitzroy River turtle (Rheodytes leukops) and may occur in others.\n\nHOWEVER- to be accurate...\na.) turtles don't have 'butts' in the sense of two large masses of muscle and tissue surrounding the anus.\nb.) even if we call that area a 'butt', turtles do not breathe through the skin and muscle there. Mammals do not excrete through their 'butts', they do it through the anus- a different body part!
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Don't get it - maybe ask the turtles!?
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Tigers can run about 35 miles per hour (56 kph) — roughly as fast as bears and lions. They reach such speeds only over short distances (about 10 yards, 10 m) during the attack.
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Suppose it would explain why tortoises walk so slowly and carefully!