Brazilian free-tailed bat is the fastest flyer in the animal kingdom
Thursday, November 10, 2016 - 09:02
in Biology & Nature
Up to now, the speed record for horizontal flight was held by birds from the swift family: the common swift, for example, can reach speeds of over 100 kilometers per hour. Investigators have now discovered a new front-runner among the acrobats of the air. However, the animal involved here is not a bird but a bat: the Brazilian free-tailed bat shoots through the night skies at over 160 kilometers per hour.