{"id":15190,"date":"2012-08-10T13:13:17","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T17:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=15190"},"modified":"2016-11-03T09:51:47","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T13:51:47","slug":"whos-faster-olympian-usain-bolt-or-a-cheetah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/omg_animals\/whos-faster-olympian-usain-bolt-or-a-cheetah\/","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s Faster, Olympian Usain Bolt or a Cheetah?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world is a buzz with the Olympics and world record holder Usain Bolt. While Usain Bolt might be the fastest human, he doesn&#8217;t hold a candle to Sarah, an 11-year-old cheetah living at the <a href=\"http:\/\/cincinnatizoo.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cincinnati Zoo<\/a>. She broke the running record in July, making her the world&#8217;s fastest mammal!<\/p>\n<p>To put her speed into perspective, Usain Bold ran the 100metre dash in 9.63 seconds while Sarah ran it in 5.95 seconds. She reached a speed of just under <strong>100km\/h.<\/strong> Now that&#8217;s one fast cat!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15191\" title=\"cheetah running\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/cheetah_running.jpg\" alt=\"cheetah running\" width=\"580\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/cheetah_running.jpg 725w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/cheetah_running-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/cheetah_running-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/cheetah_running-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cincinnatizoo.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/01\/cincinnati-zoo-cheetah-sets-new-world-speed-record\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/cincinnatizoo.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/01\/cincinnati-zoo-cheetah-sets-new-world-speed-record\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Earth Rangers<\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> is a non-profit organization that works to inspire and <\/span><a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/bbtw\/resources.html\">educate<\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> children about the environment. At EarthRangers.com kids can play <\/span><a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/games\/\">games<\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">, discover <\/span><a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/category\/omg-facts\/\">amazing facts<\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">, meet <\/span><a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/animals\/\">animal ambassadors<\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> and <\/span><a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bringbackthewild.com\/\">fundraise<\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> to protect <\/span><a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/bbtw\/about.html\" target=\"_self\">biodiversity<\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usain Bolt might hold the record for the fastest human, but he doesn&#8217;t hold a candle to Sarah, the cheetah. Find out how fast she can run. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[664,13,409,931],"tags":[478,212,131,237],"class_list":{"0":"post-15190","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mammals","8":"category-omg_animals","9":"category-omg-facts","10":"category-all","11":"tag-cheetah","12":"tag-fastest","13":"tag-mammal","14":"tag-wild-cats"},"pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}