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If I were to ask you which animal in the world is the fastest, it’s probable you’d come up with the cheetah, the fastest land animal in the world. It’s a big cat that takes three seconds to go from the speed of nought, to the speed of 68 miles per hour, a big cat that can turn in mid-air while sprinting, a seriously impressive cat.
And then, if I asked you which is the faster, a hare or a tortoise, you would all agree that the hare wins hands down.
We base that conclusion on the impressive short-term bound of the hare, from which it has to recover. So perhaps all is not as we imagine.
Adrian Bejan, professor of Mechanical Engineering at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, conducted a study which was published in the Scientific Reports journal.
His research came up with a very different result.
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