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Which of the following animals is the fastest?
A. Cheetah
B. Rabbit
C. Human
D. snail

Answer
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Hint: The speed of the animals depends on the strength of the animal and how much power the animal can generate from its body during the running condition. Animal's stamina also matters for greater speed.

Complete step by step answer:
All the animals on the land need to move from their position for their survival. The speed of the animals varies according to the size, shape, stamina and strength. Generally, the most important purpose of the animal to move faster is hunting as well as skipping from the hunter. The powerful animals like carnivores’ animals try to hunt the weaker animals like herbivores for the survival purpose by running faster as possible. But the weaker animals try to escape from the range of the stronger animals.
Among all the animals, the cheetah is the fastest animal because cheetah is a very powerful animal and has high strength. So due to this cheetah can generate great speed with the help of legs; cheetahs can run with very fast speed up to 100 kilometre per hour. But the peregrine falcon bird can move faster than the cheetah.

So, the correct answer is “Option A”.

Note:
The rabbit also moves fast but not faster than the cheetah because the size of the rabbit is very small as compared to cheetah, so the distance covered by the rabbit in one step is also less, but on the other hand cheetah can cover a large distance in his one jump. The humans and snails cannot move faster than the cheetah.