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STRENGTH AND SPEED 113

FASTEST FLYING Spiders may be small and live on a diet of insects,
but they kill more prey than any other animal –
INSECT eating up to 800 million tonnes of prey per year.

800m BIGGEST KILLER
Black cutworm moth 45 km/h tonnes
112 km/h (70 mph) (28 mph)

Fastest sprinter (Usain Bolt)

Animals migrate for winter, food, or breeding seasons F ELECTRIC shocker
but these three make the longest journeys.
These cunning hunters use high voltage
• Caribous travel up to 4,404 km (2,737 miles) electric shocks to find, stun, or kill prey.
per year in search of warmer weather during winter. AR Many electricity sockets are 220 volts.
• Northern elephant seals swim 21,000 km MIGRATION
(13,049 miles) per year in the sea in pursuit of food. Electric eel
• Arctic terns have the longest migration of any 600 volts
animal, travelling 71,000 km (44,117 miles) per year. Electric catfish
350 volts

Marbled electric ray
220 volts

Stargazer 50 volts
THEST
Caribou Northern elephant seal Arctic tern

LONGEST TAILS

Long-eared

jerboa This little rodent’s
body length is only 9 cm
(3 ⁄2 in) at most, but the tail
1
Long-tailed grass lizard is nearly twice this length,
1
This slinky lizard has the longest tail at up to 16 cm (6 ⁄3 in). Red kangaroo
relative to its body length of any Male kangaroos’ bodies
reptile. These lizards grow up grow up to 1.6 m (5 ft 2 in) long with
to 30 cm (12 in) long, with the tail an extra tail length of 1.2 m (3 ft 9 in).
measuring up to 18 cm (7 in).

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