{"id":1358,"date":"2009-08-16T20:15:22","date_gmt":"2009-08-16T20:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=1358"},"modified":"2009-08-16T20:15:22","modified_gmt":"2009-08-16T20:15:22","slug":"fastest-animal-reaction-we-have-a-new-contender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=1358","title":{"rendered":"Fastest Animal Reactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post is well past its sell by date now, and its original purpose is long lost. So I&#8217;m going to make it a bit more scientific.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Animals which are contenders for having the fastest reactions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0<a title=\"Mantis Shrimp Information\" href=\"http:\/\/notexactlyrocketscience.wordpress.com\/2006\/08\/28\/mantis-shrimps-the-worlds-fastest-punch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mantis Shrimp<\/a> &#8211; it can move its front legs so fast and with such power\u00a0that it can stun small fish and even break into crab shells or damage aquariums.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Anna's Hummingbird\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anna%27s_hummingbird\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anna&#8217;s Hummingbird<\/a> &#8211; can dive at speeds of 89 feet per second (around 60mph)<\/li>\n<li>The <a title=\"Black Marlin\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_marlin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Marlin<\/a> &#8211; clocked indirectly at 83mph<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Speed is relative, though. A small mite in America, <a title=\"Paratarsotomus macropalpis\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paratarsotomus_macropalpis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span dir=\"auto\">Paratarsotomus macropalpis<\/span><\/a>, can run 322 body lengths per second. It&#8217;s only 0.7mm long, but it equates to a human running at 1,300mph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is well past its sell by date now, and its original purpose is long lost. So I&#8217;m going to make it a bit more scientific. Animals which are contenders for having the fastest reactions: The\u00a0Mantis Shrimp &#8211; it can move its front legs so fast and with such power\u00a0that it can stun small [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}