390 km / hour: this is not the world speed record in Formula 1, but the speed reached by the peregrine falcon.

This raptor far surpasses cheetah as the world's fastest animal.

The whole anatomy of this bird revolves around aerodynamics: its wings are very compact and inclined, its head has a shape that promotes speed, its feathers are very rigid ...

And if the air pressure can suffocate a bird at very high speed, this is not the case for this raptor: its nostrils hide a bone called a "tuber", which slows the arrival of air and shrinks. this pressure.


Discover "the animal fighter plane" in the video of our partner Brut.

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