If wild animals could participate in the Olympics, the land animals of the wild would outrun any human. Most animals use their speed when overpowering prey or escaping a predator. Besides the interesting pictures you can see the really interesting data about their speed, acceleration and how much you actually can held for a long time that people even incredible speed.
1.Cheetahs speed: 70 (mph) ,113 (km/hr)
The world’s fasted land animal is the cheetah. The cheetah has an “acceleration that would leave most automobiles in the dust; a cheetah can go from 0 to 60 mph in only 3 seconds,” according to the National Geographic. This large cat has exceptional eyesight to scan for prey. The sleek and flexible spotted body of a cheetah provides camouflage for dry grasslands in Southern and East Africa, where about 12,000 endangered wild cheetahs exist.

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