Komodo National Park: Entrance Fee, Visitor Cap and Best Time
Komodo National Park entrance fee for foreign visitors (IDR 250,000), the 1,000-a-day cap in three sessions, SiOra booking and the best months to go.
Animals Editorial Team
Is a tiger beetle faster than a cheetah? It depends on the scale
A cheetah tops 96 to 112 km per hour and a tiger beetle 2.5 metres per second, but in body lengths per second the beetle reaches 171 to the cheetah’s 30.
Why do bigger animals live longer? The pattern and its exceptions
Across mammal species, a bigger body predicts a longer life, and fewer deaths from predators and other outside causes may be part of the reason.
Why can’t humans run faster than they do?
Muscle power and work capacity limit how fast a person can run, and record data suggest neither two-legged nor four-legged running has levelled off.
Why aren’t the biggest animals the fastest runners?
Maximum running speed rises with body mass to a critical mass, then falls; an elephant tops out at about 7 m/s, a cheetah at 70 mph.
Is Spider Silk Stronger Than Steel? Not Quite
Spider silk is not stronger than steel: one variety measures just above 1 GPa, while steel covers 0.2 GPa to nearly 2 GPa. Per weight, silk does come out ahead.
Largest elephant to ever live: the biggest proboscideans
The largest land mammal ever lived seems to sit within Proboscidea. Mammut borsoni and Palaeoloxodon namadicus passed the biggest indricotheres.
Largest sperm whale ever recorded: up to 24 m
In a PeerJ dataset, the longest measured sperm whale reached 24 m, while Guinness Records reported a 20.7 m Kuril Islands individual as the largest known.
Why do gorillas have canines: jaws, muscle and power
Gorillas have large canine teeth set in heavy jaws. The bony skull crests anchor the muscles that work them, and big males gain power in the group.
Sperm whale or blue whale: which is the larger animal?
The blue whale is the largest animal on Earth and the sperm whale the largest of the toothed whales, with size, weight and speed on record for both.